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"BW" <this@is.a.fake.address> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > Nope.
> > Macs use another byte-order than PCs.
> > http://www.cs.umass.edu/~verts/cs32/endian.html
> >
> > Doom wads which are created for PC have to be processed ("byte-swapped")
> to
> > be used on macs, and vice versa,
> > with programs like WADenizer.
> > http://homepage.fcgnetworks.net/jwarren/doom/extra.html
> >
> >
> > Chances are that most Doom wads for the Macintosh were made on PCs and
> > processed for Mac, since the MacDoom
> > scene is marginal compared to the PC Doom scene. So you would better
look
> > for wads in ftp.cdrom mirrors like sunet.se or the doomworld archives.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/levels/
> >
> > http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/
> >
> >
> > Only few wads, like Laz Rojas WolfenDoom episodes, were created on Macs
> and
> > then converted for PCs.
> >
> > G.
> >
>
> *stands corrected but suprised*
> You would have thought any endian-byte-swapping would be done by MacDoom,
to
> avoid the inconvenience of having to use different-format wads.
>

All this refers to original Doom. Maybe modern sourceports can perform the
byteswap operation on runtime and use PC wads directly for Mac ? I'm not
sure.

Which sourceports do exist for Macintosh anyway ? Doom Legacy is also ported
to Mac, but that's it.