Neep help with Mac PLEASE

[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.

[neverquest]

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

Easy Solution: Don't use Mac.

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[loopholbrook]

SHEEEEEEEIT! Is step 5 a necessity? It just doesn't seem like it would be.

[Nedala]

I play on a macbook pro, using bootcamp. Was very easy to setup [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[loopholbrook]

Do you have to buy the windows OS disc for it to work, or could I just torrent the .exe file?

[Mcbard]

My guess is that it would be somewhere under the Get Info menu. But seriously, you should virtualize it either via bootcamp, parallels, or some other virtualization program.

[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.

[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?