What remains of me - anyone playing on Mac ok?

Competitions IFComp
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I’ve been trying to play this today. trying the original competition bulk download version, the online version, and downloading a fresh copy as well. I am using MacOS 10.15.5.

I have tried Firefox, Safari and Chrome browsers. In all of them I get the “CLICK TO PLAY”. But when I click on that the screen goes blank and then nothing more happens. Despite me waiting ages.

I thought it might be because I usually use my Mac on a very large size font/resolution. But when I changed it to a bigger window area (so higher resolution) I still got the same result, and wasn’t e.g. missing a user interface bit I couldn’t see on my default smaller window.

Have any Mac users got it working? If so any tips re browsers etc?

Thanks!

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It started up for me normally in Safari under MacOS 11.6.

If you click on the CLICK TO PLAY button and then open the browser console, is there an error message?

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I think I got one game in this comp to run by opening it in twinery and running it from there

(Edit: Sorry, mixed this one up with we the remainder)

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Thanks for the tip! Checking the Javascript Console in my Safari I get the following bunch of errors:

Summary

[Error] Not allowed to load local resource: file:///favicon.ico
[Error] Cross origin requests are only supported for HTTP.
readAsync (tic80.js:1:6391)
(anonymous function) (tic80.js:1:14422)
Promise
getBinaryPromise (tic80.js:1:14387)
instantiateArrayBuffer (tic80.js:1:15084)
instantiateAsync (tic80.js:1:15849)
createWasm (tic80.js:1:16088)
Global Code (tic80.js:1:239922)
[Error] XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///Users/vivdunstan/Downloads/ifcomp/tic80.wasm due to access control checks.
readAsync (tic80.js:1:6391)
(anonymous function) (tic80.js:1:14422)
Promise
getBinaryPromise (tic80.js:1:14387)
instantiateArrayBuffer (tic80.js:1:15084)
instantiateAsync (tic80.js:1:15849)
createWasm (tic80.js:1:16088)
Global Code (tic80.js:1:239922)
[Warning] failed to asynchronously prepare wasm: [object XMLHttpRequestProgressEvent] (tic80.js, line 1)
[Warning] [object XMLHttpRequestProgressEvent] (tic80.js, line 1)
[Error] Unhandled Promise Rejection: Error: abort([object XMLHttpRequestProgressEvent]). Build with -s ASSERTIONS=1 for more info. (evaluating ‘new WebAssembly.RuntimeError(what)’)
abort (tic80.js:1:13427)
(anonymous function) (tic80.js:1:15263)
promiseReactionJob

And the picture version:

javascript-errors
javascript-errors2036×346 167 KB

Ah but got somewhere now! If in Safari (version 13.1.1 in the MacOS as I said earlier) in the Develop menu I change the user agent to Microsoft Edge it still won’t work with the download version, but will play the online link version ok. I get a nice colourful computer display loading on the next screen, and the keyboard works etc. So I think I’m good to judge now! (will be Monday when I get back to this probably)

Thanks folks!

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I’m not surprised that it doesn’t work downloaded. Multi-file Javascript programs often don’t work from file://. (Some arrangements work; this one obviously doesn’t.)

I am surprised that User-Agent makes a difference for the online version. You might want to report that to the ifcomp team as a bug.

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