Friday, May 01, 2020

Re: [macppc] mark games/widelands NOT_FOR_ARCHS, colors are partly off

Charlene Wendling writes:
> On Fri, 01 May 2020 12:10:34 -0600
> Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
>
> > Charlene Wendling writes:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Some texture colors are off on powerpc, upstream thinks it's likely
> > > related to the old OpenGL versions or driver used on macppc
> > > machines[0]. It's an obvious reminder, but all OpenGL capable
> > > macppc machine are radeon(4) only.
> > >
> > > As such i'm proposing to mark it NOT_FOR_ARCHS, this saves 6 bulk
> > > machine hours.
> > >
> > > OK?
> >
> > Out of curiosity, does using software rendering look better?
>
> After a few minutes, the result is the same :)

I'm speaking mostly from ignorance here, but this seems to suggest that
it's not about the old OpenGL version; looking at glxinfo on one of my
OpenGL 2.1 laptops, software rendering gives me OpenGL 3.3 through
llvmpipe.

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