Topic: Won't run on my friend's MAC.
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Maestro4202 Topic Opener
Joined: 2010-05-27, 05:11
Posts: 13  Pry about Widelands |
Posted at: 2010-06-03, 03:03
My cousin has a iMac G4 with OS X and 1.25GB ram...I know NOTHING about installing games on macs so I followed the instructions: 1)after download, I had this file called 'Widelands'. 2)As instructed I made a folder called Widelands on the mac HD and copied that file over to it. 3)Double clicked the icon. A arrow appears on the dock then nothing happens. When I click 'open contents' of the 'widelands' mac file - there is game files in it - like another file called widelands (executable? .app?) and when I click that it can't find a program to run it. Is this Mac too old to run it? Not enough ram? Admin privilages set wrong? Why is there no error messages?? I thought Macs were click-n-go..this is really baffling!! I t hink this old G4 is a power PC - does that mean I can try the win32 version or do I need actual windows installed to run it? PS-build 15 Help.. Edited: 2010-06-03, 03:19
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ixprefect
Joined: 2009-02-27, 13:28
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Posted at: 2010-06-03, 11:13
Maybe the Widelands Mac packages have only been built for Intel-based Macs? I'm just speculating, but that seems like a plausible explanation to me.
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aber
Joined: 2010-04-18, 17:45
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Posted at: 2010-06-05, 13:35
This is correct. The current widelands build15 mac package is i386, x86_64,
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Maestro4202 Topic Opener
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Posted at: 2010-06-09, 07:36
And a old iMac G4 from 2001ish macs ..the ones that look like R2-D2's head - but all white color..is not intel/new enough?
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ixprefect
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Posted at: 2010-06-09, 09:50
I believe the "G4" in "iMac G4" is what indicates that it is not Intel-based.
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aber
Joined: 2010-04-18, 17:45
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Posted at: 2010-06-09, 19:12
This is correct. G4 indicates powerpc G4 which was designed by Apple, IBM and Motorola. It might be possible to run widelands on a machines which contains a G4 or G5 type of processor, but only having limited resources we stripped ppc support from the latest builds, because of some problems. I also have to say that such a machine is not fast. If you have a look at geekbench, you can see that a Mac mini is 5 times as fast.
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