Macologist expert invitation to Macgamingmods

[Guest]

Hi to everyone at macgamingmods... I was introduced to this site by [MA]BlueRogue, and I've also seen Vir2L posting at our site too.

I'm writing to you as cofounder of www.macologist.org , a very similar site dedicated to 'expert' help in Mac gaming, and especially mod conversion and providing for their downloads.

Our current expertise is largely with mods with: UT99, UT2004, BF1942, HW2, and CoD. As you see, there is a bit of overlap, but macgamingmods has expertise in mods for games we know little about: Ghost Recon, Ravenshield, Dungeon Siege, Rogue Spear.

In short I would like to explore the possiblity of synergy between our sites. One of the things we do is provide downloads, and have a large download system via our sistersite osxgamefiles.com, and we would love to provide mirrors for your mod and custom content files.

We also have staff that convert Win32-only .exe distros, as well as other staff who, if necessary, can create apple packagemaker Installers and wrap them in .dmg images for distro to Mac gamers. If these skill can be of assistance, we'd like to provide them-- We have tutorials on doing this for our staff as well.

Ideally we could get a primary contact who would be given an FTP account and special permissions at our site to mirror content (since I myself am not knowledgeable in what the files are for these other games).

Briefly we also have betatesters on staff (from many of the UT2004 mod teams, as well as official external betatesters for BF1942, UT2004, UTPG, Postal2, Americas Army, Aspyr, etc.). We also have staff who are proficient in Applescript and Cocoa coding for utilities-- my own "Santaduck Toolpak" for UT2004 was even used by Apple to introduce the iMac G5 (see bar graph here)

Please come take a look at our site and Downloads, and let's see if we can think of a productive and synergistic relationship.

--'Santaduck'

ps I was also given the names of Vir2L and SOG to contact here...

[Santaduck]

^ that post was mine.

I thought I was logged in, but apparently I wasn't.

[Selix]

Welcome! ::Goes back to his life, consumed of Orchestra Pit practice:: Blech...

I'll post again later x.x;

[Vir2L™]

Welcome to MGM SantaDuck.

Sounds like a great idea, though its not up to me. Monoman is your guy to talk to.

I think if MGM and Macologist worked together it would be an awesome force in the Mac community.

[LordLothar]

i think its a good idea

[Selix]

Welcome! Ah i get some time to post...sorta

Alright since I'm in the middle of school I'll make this brief.


Welcome, SantaDuck.

I'm sure Mono won't care if you advertise here, it's not like either one of the two sites are selling anything or competing; both sites have different games for modding.


If it means anything to you Mono, I vote we work together with Santaduck

[Blade]

I think it's a bad idea. Also, leary may want to keep his stuff here, and he's got plenty of stuff on MGM.

Edit:
Selix, you just want that MoH:AA section.

[Monoman]

I am talking with Santaduck. I will post here and on the site when/if something final is decided.

[SiP]

I don't know much about the full details, but it sounds like an intesting collaboration idea to me.

[Santaduck]

Thank you to everyone for your consideration.

I've given Monoman internal staff permissions at our site at Macologist, and hopefully we'll be able to consider positive collaborations.

I'm looking for a good relationship-- certainly if there are objections by the authors of certain content, we can either avoid that content altogether, or find a solution. If there are other issues, we can work that out, or decide not to. Ideally I would hope to give file management access to someone here (designated by Monoman), so that these matters are largely up to MGM's discretion.

There are lots of interesting issues beyond files as well, and hopefully there is something worth doing that won't step on any toes, and will actually help both sites equally.

Thank you again.