Comments | worldofwarcraft: WoW ACE Updater for Mac OS X

ladyjestyr in worldofwarcraft

WoW ACE Updater for Mac OS X

Nov 29, 2007 01:32

Figured this might be some use to others in the community, so ( Read more... )

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equiraptor November 28 2007, 15:48:33 UTC

Hrm. I've been using MacAceUpdater for some time, but it seems to be having some issues for me. I don't know if it's Leopard or what, but it occasionally locks up.

What OSes has your friend's software been tested on? (or perhaps I should say which versions of the OS)

ladyjestyr November 28 2007, 15:54:23 UTC

Tiger 10.4.10 and 10.4.11, and Leopard. Worked fine in all of them, to my knowledge (and I've used it in all bar 10.4.10 myself).

misfit022686 November 29 2007, 00:35:30 UTC

it's been crashing after updates since I upgraded to Leopard as well

lexperiment November 28 2007, 16:18:36 UTC

Hang on, I play on a Mac, but I have no idea what an Ace mod is. I haven't been playing on one for long + i'm a nublet, so...can I ask for an explanation?

greatblondino November 28 2007, 16:48:50 UTC

Ace is a framework for writing addons. Addons based on the Ace framework (techy stuff) are usually quite neat and memory-efficient, and work well with each other. Ag_unitframes, Fubar, Atlasloot, Omen etc are all Ace-based. Ace has nothing to do with Mac or PC, as WoW addons work on either platform.

WoWAceUpdater is a Windows (well, until now) program that makes updating your addons much easier - instead of downloading them one by one, it'll scan your addon directory and automatically install the latest versions (brilliant on patch day). This announcement relates to a Mac-based version of the updater, not to the addons themselves. Yay for this!

I tried some other updater (WUU?) recently, but it really didn't work for me. Froze a lot and had some weird options... hopefully this Ace one will save me booting into Parallels every time I want to update!

lexperiment November 28 2007, 16:49:52 UTC

aah, that's amazing! Thanks! Definitely going to try that out xD

greatblondino November 28 2007, 18:49:14 UTC

http://files.wowace.com has a list of all the mods.

reservoir November 28 2007, 17:15:51 UTC

I use JWoWUpdater, but I'll look in to this one :)

particle_man November 28 2007, 17:43:41 UTC

I've been using JWowUpdater as well. Wonderfully useful little app (or should I say javascript) that works perfectly every time.

faecat November 28 2007, 19:21:44 UTC

Thirded :)

pewter November 29 2007, 09:25:02 UTC

Fourthed!

tokudama November 28 2007, 17:23:55 UTC

I use the same one as Equi, but I'm willing to give this one a try, too. :)

kanmude November 28 2007, 17:31:31 UTC

Ooo alphabetical order! That was the thing that bothered me so much with the MacAceUpdater. It's a little slower, but I'd take that over a non-alphabetical list any day.

Thanks for the sharing!