Brodie53
06-01-2014, 10:43 AM
Hi!
I was able to install FoF7 using the procedure outlined by IDon'tThinkSo from the MatrixGames forum:
"After reading of someone else's good experience of running the game in Linux under Wine I went ahead and bought it for my mac. Here's a dead simple guide to installing and running the game on OS X. You'll end up with a .app file that you can place in your Applications directory, making it possible to treat it just like a native application.
Tested with Mavericks, but I reckon this should work just fine on all OS X versions currently supported by Wineskin.
1. Download Wineskin (404 Not Found (http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php)).
2. Start Wineskin.
3. Click the '+' sign under the 'Installed Engines' section - we're going to install a Wine version here.
4. Choose the latest version available and click 'Download and Install'. If that gives you problems later on for some reason or another, try an older one. FYI, I am running WS9Wine1.7.12.
5. Once that is done Wine will probably trigger an optional download of a Mono library (open source .NET) which will probably fail. Just ignore it and let it finish.
6. You now have a .app wrapper file in your /<username>/Applications/Wineskin directory! Double click it.
7. Click 'Set Screen Options'. Do the following on the screen that pops up:
a. 'Override Wine control of Screen Settings?' -> Override.
b. In the 'Override Settings' half of the screen, pick 'Fullscreen'.
c. Click 'Done'.
(optional) Click 'Advanced'.
(optional) Under the 'Options' tab, uncheck 'Map User Mac OS X folders in wrapper.'. Close the options.
8. Click 'Install Software'.
9. Select the .exe installation file.
10. Install the game, just like on Windows.
11. After the installation has finished you can run the game by double-clicking the .app wrapper file that you created in step 6.
12. Enjoy the game."
The Wineskin app is free although the developers welcome any donation via PayPal.
It worked on my MacPro. Hope you Mac users out there will have success as well!
I was able to install FoF7 using the procedure outlined by IDon'tThinkSo from the MatrixGames forum:
"After reading of someone else's good experience of running the game in Linux under Wine I went ahead and bought it for my mac. Here's a dead simple guide to installing and running the game on OS X. You'll end up with a .app file that you can place in your Applications directory, making it possible to treat it just like a native application.
Tested with Mavericks, but I reckon this should work just fine on all OS X versions currently supported by Wineskin.
1. Download Wineskin (404 Not Found (http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php)).
2. Start Wineskin.
3. Click the '+' sign under the 'Installed Engines' section - we're going to install a Wine version here.
4. Choose the latest version available and click 'Download and Install'. If that gives you problems later on for some reason or another, try an older one. FYI, I am running WS9Wine1.7.12.
5. Once that is done Wine will probably trigger an optional download of a Mono library (open source .NET) which will probably fail. Just ignore it and let it finish.
6. You now have a .app wrapper file in your /<username>/Applications/Wineskin directory! Double click it.
7. Click 'Set Screen Options'. Do the following on the screen that pops up:
a. 'Override Wine control of Screen Settings?' -> Override.
b. In the 'Override Settings' half of the screen, pick 'Fullscreen'.
c. Click 'Done'.
(optional) Click 'Advanced'.
(optional) Under the 'Options' tab, uncheck 'Map User Mac OS X folders in wrapper.'. Close the options.
8. Click 'Install Software'.
9. Select the .exe installation file.
10. Install the game, just like on Windows.
11. After the installation has finished you can run the game by double-clicking the .app wrapper file that you created in step 6.
12. Enjoy the game."
The Wineskin app is free although the developers welcome any donation via PayPal.
It worked on my MacPro. Hope you Mac users out there will have success as well!