Mac?

[mattlanta]

Is there an easy way to play this game on a Mac?

[totoro]

I think using virtualization is the easiest compared to Boot Camp. I'm using Parallels w/o issue. There is free virtualization out there but don't know how good it is.

[stevew]

Wine and winebottler. Not every screen works and you have to use external browser to view game logs/boxscores. But it's free.

Edit-longtime player of previous versions. Nothing that doesn't work(such as end of season report card) killed it for me. I didn't have to change playing style at all.

[LastWhiteSoxFanStanding]

I second parallels. It costs money, but it works flawlessly and you can use it for other games as well.

[aston217]

VirtualBox running Windows shouldn't be a problem. Not sure how similar that is to Parallels.

[mattlanta]

I wonder if there'll be any Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals on Parallels. I've looked into it a little bit, and it looks like it's the best way to go if I want to delve more into the text-simulation sports world (FOF7, Draft Day Sports, etc.)

[OldSchool]

Wine and winebottler. Not every screen works and you have to use external browser to view game logs/boxscores. But it's free.

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When I used winebottler to generate a .app from the install file, it created one that launched the new player generator instead of the actual game. Any ideas what settings I need to tweak to get that working properly?

[stevew]

You just have to scroll down to the right exe for the game. It defaults to wanting to install the player generator

[OldSchool]

You just have to scroll down to the right exe for the game. It defaults to wanting to install the player generator

Oh cool, I think I must've just clicked through that on my first attempt. Running like a charm now, thanks!

[stevew]

Don't do custom browser. It crashes.

[OldSchool]

Hey Steve (or whoever else)...what would be the process to unlicense a copy running in wine? I think the game just includes a batch file that launches FoF with a command line argument (like "fof.exe -unlicense" or something similar), so would I just create a new .app with wine bottler that includes that argument?

[stevew]

Lemme know if you figure it out. I have 0 idea.

[stevew]

I was having troubles getting Bootcamp to work, but was able to make Virtual Box work. It's like Parallels, but free. Of course requires a windows license, but you may have one of those laying around. I need to work on optimizing power somehow, because things like the Staff Draft drag on. I'm sure I can tweak it a bit.

[stevew]

to unlicense, open wine. Go to file manager. Program files solecismic software open fof 7 folder.

Then go up to the top menu, file>run>browse change to all files. Then click on unlicense.bat.


Also, if you previously installed and licensed, but are starting over from scratch, create a dummy league, run a few games, save, then close. Then re-open license. If you don't do this, i have no idea where the Universe folder gets created(may be created in sprites and pixels in heaven for all I know), you can't see box scores if you don't do this. I basically had to burn a 40 year career up because I couldn't locate it(obviously my bad).

Anyways, these are my findings and I uninstalled easily this time.