Temple of Elemental Evil on a Mac?! Heresy abounds...
"Evil 'round every corner. Careful not to step in any..."
So... While waiting for the BG1 NPC project and having way too much spare time I decided to have a go at ToEE since I've heard it mentioned in several places around the forum. The only problem is that I'm on a Mac...
I checked the web for a wrapper, found one by the Porting Team and happily spent 5.99$ (so cheap!) for ToEE on Good Old Games. Once I started the installation process however I encountered several difficulties. And since I'm not sure what the problem is I'm going to try to be thorough in my explanation.
First: When I download the wrapper from The Porting Team it's not in a usual zip format (.7z) and once I managed to unzip it (with Sulfit Expander) my Mac doesn't recognize its format other than as a generic program (you know with the blank paper icon and a pen and brush in the lower right corner). I think that might be part of the issue I'm having further on.
Second: The cider tool Xinstaller doesn't work on systems beyond 10.6 and since I'm running mountain lion 10.8.2 that's bad news. I circumvented this by installing ToEE (and the Circle 8 modpack I was told was a necessity) in an existing wine wrapper I use for another game (good old Age of Empires II) and then moved it into the cider wrapper. (This was suggested on the porting team site)
Third: Now when I try to start the game (after setting the wrapper path to the correct location for ToEE.exe) the program won't start and I get the usual "program quit unexpectedly" after a short while.
So now to my questions:
Is there anything flawed in this installation process or is it likely that the wrapper itself is broken or uncompatible? I have no previous experience with cider, I have used wineskin a bit, but only simple stuff or modifying existing wrappers.
Alternatively: Does anyone know where I could get my hands on an existing wineskin wrapper for ToEE or how much work it would take to create one myself? If I need to create one myself I would be very grateful if anyone could point me in the direction of a tutorial
I really would love some help, and there appears to be plenty of really clever people on the forum so I thought I'd try my luck!
So... While waiting for the BG1 NPC project and having way too much spare time I decided to have a go at ToEE since I've heard it mentioned in several places around the forum. The only problem is that I'm on a Mac...
I checked the web for a wrapper, found one by the Porting Team and happily spent 5.99$ (so cheap!) for ToEE on Good Old Games. Once I started the installation process however I encountered several difficulties. And since I'm not sure what the problem is I'm going to try to be thorough in my explanation.
First: When I download the wrapper from The Porting Team it's not in a usual zip format (.7z) and once I managed to unzip it (with Sulfit Expander) my Mac doesn't recognize its format other than as a generic program (you know with the blank paper icon and a pen and brush in the lower right corner). I think that might be part of the issue I'm having further on.
Second: The cider tool Xinstaller doesn't work on systems beyond 10.6 and since I'm running mountain lion 10.8.2 that's bad news. I circumvented this by installing ToEE (and the Circle 8 modpack I was told was a necessity) in an existing wine wrapper I use for another game (good old Age of Empires II) and then moved it into the cider wrapper. (This was suggested on the porting team site)
Third: Now when I try to start the game (after setting the wrapper path to the correct location for ToEE.exe) the program won't start and I get the usual "program quit unexpectedly" after a short while.
So now to my questions:
Is there anything flawed in this installation process or is it likely that the wrapper itself is broken or uncompatible? I have no previous experience with cider, I have used wineskin a bit, but only simple stuff or modifying existing wrappers.
Alternatively: Does anyone know where I could get my hands on an existing wineskin wrapper for ToEE or how much work it would take to create one myself? If I need to create one myself I would be very grateful if anyone could point me in the direction of a tutorial
I really would love some help, and there appears to be plenty of really clever people on the forum so I thought I'd try my luck!
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