Game Mac and Linux

[Seth]

Mac

• Bootcamp using a separate install of Windows.
• Veertu (for native virtualization using Hypervisor framework provided by Mac if using Yosemite or above without 3-D acceleration).
• Parallels (for feature-rich virtualization with 3-D acceleration).
• PlayOnMac uses WINE. It does not work with the game, I tried.

As a side note, Parallels costs annually for new versions and Veertu is free for a lifetime software purchase. Bootcamp is the best free option you have and is a native install making it have native performance. I do not believe using VirtualBox on Mac is a good idea, but you can try.  My experiences were left unsatisfied.

 

 

Linux

• Qemu + KVM using GPU pass-through for native 3-D acceleration. Example.
• Virtualbox using software virtualization with weak 3-D acceleration.
• PlayOnLinux uses WINE.

As a side note, Linux is for advanced users and if you don't know how to do this yourself you better not be using this since you are likely wasting your time using an OS that is not designed for consumers.

 

 

WINE

The game is too complicated to get to run under WINE for novice users. Additionally, the way WINE works is not very good for software developers to port app packages for the many flavors of Linux or Mac despite looking very hard. I once tried to port to a Mac App, but I could never get it fully working, so it will have to wait til the new engine. I have got the game running 95% bug free using WINE and PlayOnLinux, but it is really complicated for novice users. PlayOnMac I could not get the game to render probably, the display server that Mac uses is different and for some reason doesn't want to render DirectX8 the same as it does on Linux. The updater worked on both though.

 

To get started simply install these dependencies. Make sure to install them before install the installer.

• .NET Framework 4.0 + XHTML. XHTML is required, there's not much documentation but if the updater doesn't work then this is likely the problem. I believe version 3 is required.
• Visual Basic 6 Runtime.
• Microsoft Core Fonts.
• Mono.

If you get problems with the install, it is up to you to resolve them. Make sure to post your results here if you are successful. Let us know what you did to get it to work, so we can improve the process for other users.

 

 

Support

We will try to support Mac and Linux in the new game engine, for now this is all we can offer.