Neep help with Mac PLEASE

[Mcbard]

Originally Posted by DevGrousis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

just because it would be awesome to be able to keep Mac OS up and play EQ. Have all my music, bookmarks, etc on my mac side. my Windows side is barren except for EQ and Google Chrome lol

Parallels is for you my friend.

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[Mcbard]

Found a solution to the original question.. it involves running it not through the shortcut since you can't append commands to them apparently (learn something every day) but instead creating a small script that launches the application with the patchme command added to the end of it.

http://superuser.com/questions/16750...ents-in-mac-os

So make a blank text document and put this in it:

#!/bin/sh
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -P default -no-remote &

Just replace the firefox path with the one to your eq app and add the patchme at the end of it.

[Enderenter]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Easy Solution: Don't use Mac.

Amen. Heed this man.

Originally Posted by Slave [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some of my friends, artists, that's all they own. Not natural gamers but they shouldn't be automatically excluded from our nice little community here. I didn't know it was possible to play P99 on a mac... to know it's even possible is half the battle. Seriously, you guys are playing P99 on Mac?

Hey, don't exclude them just because they are artists. Artists can learn how to use real computers too, you know.

[loopholbrook]

Originally Posted by Mcbard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Found a solution to the original question.. it involves running it not through the shortcut since you can't append commands to them apparently (learn something every day) but instead creating a small script that launches the application with the patchme command added to the end of it.

http://superuser.com/questions/16750...ents-in-mac-os

So make a blank text document and put this in it:


Just replace the firefox path with the one to your eq app and add the patchme at the end of it.

Holy crap thank you so much. Errr I did everything that said, and still nothing. Yargen

[MrCables]

Originally Posted by loopholbrook [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Holy crap thank you so much. Errr I did everything that said, and still nothing. Yargen

So, I just installed wine via MacPorts to give it a try. Seems like its going to be a PITA trying to get the client window to display right, but I've never used wine before. So, it's probably just me being noobish in this regard. I can't get the app to run full screen and it's annoying to have the dock in front of the game window.

Anyway, this is the bash script i've been using to launch EQ:

#!/bin/bash
# Run EQ, using wine

EQ_DIR=~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Sony/Project1999

cd "$EQ_DIR"
wine eqgame.exe patchme

You'll need to be sure to edit the EQ_DIR variable to conform to your correct path. Also, just fyi... there's probably a better way to handle the whitespace because of the "Program Files" folder. But, adding the quotes around the variable name for cd seemed to work out fine.

Hope this helps.

[Mcbard]

Originally Posted by MrCables [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, I just installed wine via MacPorts to give it a try. Seems like its going to be a PITA trying to get the client window to display right, but I've never used wine before. So, it's probably just me being noobish in this regard. I can't get the app to run full screen and it's annoying to have the dock in front of the game window.

Anyway, this is the bash script i've been using to launch EQ:



You'll need to be sure to edit the EQ_DIR variable to conform to your correct path. Also, just fyi... there's probably a better way to handle the whitespace because of the "Program Files" folder. But, adding the quotes around the variable name for cd seemed to work out fine.

Hope this helps.

The dock issue also shows up if you were to try to run fullscreen, in coherence view. It's something to do with the way the OS treats the dock I think and the way the OS uses it. Playing in windowed mode works fine though I would assume?

[MrCables]

Originally Posted by Mcbard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The dock issue also shows up if you were to try to run fullscreen, in coherence view. It's something to do with the way the OS treats the dock I think and the way the OS uses it. Playing in windowed mode works fine though I would assume?

Ya... playing in windowed mode works ok for the most part, once I found the "Zoom" command in the xorg menu and could actually see the entire client window. To remedy the dock issue, I just went into system properties and set it to auto hide.

The only thing that I can't seem to fix, and I'm not sure you can, is with mouselook. It seems as though the game window doesnt fully capture the mouse and it moves along the desktop as well. So, what happens is the cursor gets to the edge of the desktop under the game window and you'll stop turning.

I tried running winecfg and playing with some of the options, but nothing seemed to help. I guess later on, when I have some free time, I'll try google to see if anyone else has a fix for it.

[loopholbrook]

I must be retarded because none of this is working. Granted I don't know much about computers, but I thought I had enough to do something this simple. I have the same path as you so, I don't know why it isn't working.
I think automator is my problem, not quite sure how to use it. Is this how it should look when I'm making the app?
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[MrCables]

Originally Posted by loopholbrook [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I must be retarded because none of this is working. Granted I don't know much about computers, but I thought I had enough to do something this simple. I have the same path as you so, I don't know why it isn't working.
I think automator is my problem, not quite sure how to use it. Is this how it should look when I'm making the app?

Interesting... I've never played with Automator before. I'm still new to OSX, it's only been a few weeks since I got this macbook. So, I had approached this as I would in linux or bsd, just using the terminal. However, after looking at your screenshot and playing with Automator a bit, I think I figured out what your trying to do.

You only need to use the "Run Shell Script" action, get rid of the Finder action you have there. You can type something similar to the following, in the text box where it says "cat" in your screenshot:

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Sony/Project1999
/opt/local/bin/wine start eqgame.exe patchme

This is what I used in Automator then saved it to my desktop. Of course, our paths to the eqgame and wine executables might be different, so you might need to make changes.

Let me know how you get on with this... hope it helps

[loopholbrook]

Originally Posted by MrCables [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Interesting... I've never played with Automator before. I'm still new to OSX, it's only been a few weeks since I got this macbook. So, I had approached this as I would in linux or bsd, just using the terminal. However, after looking at your screenshot and playing with Automator a bit, I think I figured out what your trying to do.

You only need to use the "Run Shell Script" action, get rid of the Finder action you have there. You can type something similar to the following, in the text box where it says "cat" in your screenshot:



This is what I used in Automator then saved it to my desktop. Of course, our paths to the eqgame and wine executables might be different, so you might need to make changes.

Let me know how you get on with this... hope it helps

It says workflow failed. Can you take a screenshot of your to see what I'm doing wrong? Or alternatively can you tell me what I would have to do in terminal?