I recently started and also attempted to use the posted guide. The game would start to launch and then never start. I'm using OS X Mavericks, 10.9.1.
I downloaded the latest Wineskin Winery from:
http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tik...page=Downloads. Launch Wineskin Winery and click the + to download the latest engine: I'm using WS9Wine1.7.8. Then click update to download the latest wrapper: the version I'm using is Wineskin-2.5.12.
Click create new Blank Wrapper and give it a name like Project 1999. You can close Wineskin Winery when it finishes. You can then install like the rest of the guide.
However I believe I had to go into Wineskin->Advanced->Tools->Winetricks and select "glsl=disabled", "d3dx9" and "core" (in Fonts) for the game to load and display character models correctly.