Mac?
 

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.)

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?

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!

Don't do custom browser. It crashes.

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?

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

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.

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.