I've emailed Mika and we briefly discussed this issue.  It's not really that odd because the sound effects are stored in the WAV format, which is geared towards little-endian machines.  I've taken a look at a couple of endian-safe .wav loading systems that I may be able to port over (I could find name if you'd like, I can't recall them off the top of my head...).  I've also looked briefly at just writing a new loader from scratch, based on the WAV spec.  It wouldn't take a real coder any time at all, but it'd probly take a rookie like me a couple dozen hours.
Anyways, between finals and my new summer coding job, I don't know that I'll be able to get down to writing code for this 'till the summer's over at least...  

Well, you're ahead of me.  I can't seem to get past the "Simple MediaDirect Layer not found." message...

Running OSX (ver. 10.2.3), and using fink, I've installed the sdl, sdl-image, and sdl-mixer packages (as well as the accompanying vorbisfile package).  I then proceeded to download the CVS tree and executed the build.sh script. I get the following output:


Sed stream editor found.
tr found.
Make found.
GNU C Compiler found.
Big-endian machine.
Simple DirectMedia Layer not found.

From reading different posts here on the boards, I'm aware that the config_progfile must be changed to give updated locations of the vorbisfile, but I haven't seen any information regarding problems stemming from the SDL libraries.  

Also, is there a HOW-TO for UQM under OSX yet?  If not, and if the developers are a ways off from distributing a dedicated Mac package/binary, I'd be willing to begin work on the creation of that HOW-TO.

 Roderic Lewis
 ric@byu.edu