Charity Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Good afternoon! I have a problem, as you may already know from the tags. I have a common curse in this gaming community- OSX. I can't do many things, and I can't play any of my beloved visual novels. So, with this said, I need some assistance/a verdict. Is there a way to make a trading bot for OSX, and can it be done just as easily as on PC? Does anyone on here have any experience with it, or can anyone help me out? I've already talked to Bone about it, and his bots seem to work only on Windows. Thank you in advance, -Charity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Hey, I didn't really see this coming. But anyways, I will comment on this Most of the bots out there use Jessecar's SteamBot base (Creator of scrap.TF) Link - https://github.com/Jessecar96/SteamBot/ This base is supposed to be running ONLY on windows therefore there is no way you can make an OSX bot using it.. (in my knowledge) I reckon ive seen a couple other bases but they are not so popular and probably outdated. Never tried em tbh. You should really try downloading Parallels or VMware Fusion to run windows on your OSX -Bone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charity Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Yeah, I've been told to try that quite a bit, but I'm stuck on a dying MacBook Pro and I don't want to kill it. I guess I'm just a bit shaky around a separate operating system on my computer, as I don't know how stable it is. I actually tried to search around and attempt at making my own bot for a little while, as I've got some mild programming knowledge from my computer science class in high school. (That was in Java, though. C# isn't my fortè) Thank you very much for the super fast input, I'll see about trying some sort of windows parallel on my computer. I've been looking into a new computer anyways, so perhaps killing the poor machine would be best. -Charity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Seems fair. Good luck Have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HusKy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Have you tried Mono? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charity Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Have you tried Mono?I have, yes. That's what I tried first, actually. I just couldn't seem to get past a couple large errors, and decided to give up after a couple of days. I used Jessecar's bot frame to start with, so that could have totally been the issue if his only works on Windows, like Bone suggested. I could always give it another shot if you've got any pointers. -Charity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Radiated Banana Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Have you tried Mono? wats dat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charity Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 wats dat It's a program that allows me to work in C# on a Mac. It works for Linux and others, as well. It's a separate IDE, I believe. I didn't get too far in depth with it, so I could be totally wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HusKy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Someone got it working a long time ago but it's not that straight forward I guess... https://github.com/Jessecar96/SteamBot/issues/169 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charity Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Yeah, that's a bit odd. Thank you very much for the research, though. I'll look into that a bit more, see if I can do something with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators fisk Posted March 18, 2014 Administrators Share Posted March 18, 2014 I had several reasons to move away from SteamBot, one of them being that C# isn't exactly portable. Yes, Mono exists, but, meh. Both backpack.tf and Bazaar.tf use Node.js for Steam bot implementations. Node works on pretty much every platform that is available and isn't restricted by proprietary means. https://github.com/seishun/node-steam https://github.com/Alex7Kom/node-steam-tradeoffers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charity Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 I had several reasons to move away from SteamBot, one of them being that C# isn't exactly portable. Yes, Mono exists, but, meh. Both backpack.tf and Bazaar.tf use Node.js for Steam bot implementations. Node works on pretty much every platform that is available and isn't restricted by proprietary means. https://github.com/seishun/node-steam https://github.com/Alex7Kom/node-steam-tradeoffers Wonderful, thank you very much! Is there any way you could give me a hand on getting things running? Node is very new to me, so I have little to no idea what I should do. If you'd like me to pay you somehow, I could arrange for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators fisk Posted March 18, 2014 Administrators Share Posted March 18, 2014 http://nodejs.org/download/ from the directory you are building your application in, use the npm command line utility to acquire the libraries previously posted, instructions for each are provided in their readmes From there it's just JavaScript so you just have to type shit and it works You will have to get used to the asynchronous nature of Node as it is 99% callbacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charity Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 http://nodejs.org/download/ from the directory you are building your application in, use the npm command line utility to acquire the libraries previously posted, instructions for each are provided in their readmes From there it's just JavaScript so you just have to type shit and it works You will have to get used to the asynchronous nature of Node as it is 99% callbacks Gotcha, thank you yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Oh My God!! Fiskie, thanks for the node thing. I've worked with node earlier and damn, if only I had known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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