HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[Alias]

I have played on mojave using the old wine setup for years, 2015 mbp. Maybe viable not sure if the new hardware will run mojave well.

[dabbill]

I ended up using VMWare fusion with Windows ARM VM. EQ runs prefect.
Check out that YouTube video if you need help. VMWare made Fusion free for personal use, and when you create your first VM it asks you if you want to download and use Windows. I just followed through with installing windows. Made a local user account, not a Microsoft account. Then copied EQEmu folder to the VM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9TUIVDUjto

[Dundrige]

Hi everyone. I am running Project 1999 on my new m4 iMac in Parallels 20 and everything works great in fullscreen mode, but the game is just a little dark and I can't adjust the gamma. Any fix?

[Jayoda]

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I've tried how ever every time I start wineskin it just says busy and does not progress .. any ideas?

Trying on old school MacOS Monterey MacBook Air 13 inc 2017. 8gig ram, intel HD Graphics 6000 1536MB

[darkvane]

Adding a "full" install comment to this thread. Crossover running on Apple M3 Pro Sonoma.

Sure. Open (double click) all the ISO files for titanium (there should be five). They should show up as new disks. Once you have crossover installed, go install a new application. Choose Everquest.. Unless you have anything else setup with a bottle (the container that windows stuff and your app go into) it will automatically create a new bottle called Everquest. Change the installer location (top button on the right). When that dialog opens, go to disk 1 and select the installer (install.exe). It will start installing and ask you some questions. Just take the defaults. It will then ask you to select Disk 2, then Disk 3,4,5 and finally back to disk 1. At the end, it may say something about having an issue, tell it to "skip that step". Now you should have two Everquest things in home. Select the bottle it created (on the left, probably called Everquest). Once selected, on the right, click "Run Command". Click Browse, navigate to "Program Files (x86)Sony/Everquest" and select the batch file "Launch Titanium.bat". At the bottom, click "Save command as launcher" and just wait... It takes a few seconds. You should see it pop up in the Crossover screen in the background. The icon will also show up in your Mac Launchpad. Close all the disk files (no more reason for them to be open).

Before you run it, you need to go download the updates for P99 from the main wiki. DO NOT just drop the folders and files into the Everquest folder (if you get files missing when you run it, you probably did this. Start over. You need to copy the files into the right folders manually. So get al the files from the main folder, copy them, and paste into the main folder (you should replace files when it asks, and this is the same for all files). Go into the next folder, copy the files, and paste them into the proper folder in the deployment. Keep doing this until you have copied over all of them. You can find the folder by "open C: drive" when selecting the Bottle in Crossover.

You can start EQ by clicking that icon either in Crossover, or from your Mac launchpad. If you get an error about not being able to attach, just close everything, and go back to Launchpad and click the Launch Titanium icon again. Sometimes it takes a few times.

[lillyjsm]

I've had success on Apple Silicon machines (M3 in my case) using Kegworks, which is basically a successor to Wineskin. It seems like there have been some folks doing a lot of development on the wine engine for silicon machines, as well as some work pertaining to the DirectX situation.

This is more or less the steps I did to set it up:

1. Install Kegworks via Homebrew (or MacPorts)
2. Open Kegworks Winery, install engine WS12WineCX24.0.7
3. Click "Update Wrapper" at the bottom to ensure Wineskin-3.1.5 is up to date
4. Click "Create New Blank Wrapper"
5. Name the wrapper p99 (or whatever you want)
6. Once the wrapper is finished, search for the name under Launchpad
7. In the KegworksConfig window for the wrapper, click "Install Software" on the bottom left
8. In my case, I had a p99 directory from a previous linux install so I just chose "Copy a Folder Inside" and selected my p99 folder
9. After the chosen install method is complete, ensure that it uses the "eqgame.exe" executable. Add patchme in the existing double quotes.
10. Under the "Configuration" tab, ensure "DirectX to Metal translation layer - (DXMT)" is checked
11. Close the configuration window, navigate back to Launchpad and attempt to run it

I don't have sound yet, but everything else seems to work great. YMMV of course.

[darkvane]

Great find and instructions! I'm getting sound on mine (no changes from your setup). I copied a folder from my crossover setup. M3 Pro.