Getting a game to run on Mac OSX

Vafrous · Post by **Vafrous** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:58 pm

I play a game called shaiya, I have been able to get it running on my ubuntu partition by looking at the various tutorials in the WineAppDB.

I was just curious if someone could help me get this running, if it is possible yet that is, on Mac OSX. I got the download thing to pop up but eventually ran into an error and could not run the game...

I am running a macbook pro 2.6 GHZ dual core...10.5.6.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:06 pm

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Vafrous <[email protected]> wrote:

I play a game called shaiya, I have been able to get it running on my ubuntu partition by looking at the various tutorials in the WineAppDB.

I was just curious if someone could help me get this running, if it is possible yet that is, on Mac OSX. I got the download thing to pop up but eventually ran into an error and could not run the game...

I am running a macbook pro 2.6 GHZ dual core...10.5.6.

Hard to help if we don't know the error.

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-Austin

Vafrous · Post by **Vafrous** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:24 am

Its an error with the game after its done patching...something on the lines of: The version does not match, please install new client from homepage.c20

Now I know the solution seems pretty straight-forward...but I have redownloaded multiple times and even gone so far to copy over the wine folder from the linux partition.

It works just fine under linux, but as soon as i run it under mac OSX i get this error...

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:25 am

Vafrous <[email protected]>

Sent: Jan 20, 2009 8:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Getting a game to run on Mac OSX

I play a game called shaiya, I have been able to get it running on my ubuntu partition by looking at the various tutorials in the WineAppDB.

I was just curious if someone could help me get this running, if it is possible yet that is, on Mac
OSX. I got the download thing to pop up but eventually ran into an error and could not run the
game...

What is the error and how does it appear? Are you attempting to run the program from the terminal or through the disk?

Pretty hard to help without this information.

James McKenzie

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:34 am

Vafrous <[email protected]>

Sent: Jan 21, 2009 7:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Re: Getting a game to run on Mac OSX

Its an error with the game after its done patching...something on the lines of: The version does not match, please install new client from homepage.c20

This looks like a popup from the program, is this correct?

I know this is a stupid question, but is this game free or have a demo so that I can attempt to repeat what you are doing at a later time today?

Now I know the solution seems pretty straight-forward...but I have redownloaded multiple times and even gone so far to copy over the wine folder from the linux partition.

Please do NOT copy the wine folder from a Linux parition. Please create a new one on your Mac.

It works just fine under linux, but as soon as i run it under mac OSX i get this error...

This may be a Mac specific error and I would like to confirm this.

Also, which Wine version are you using and where did you get it from?

Thank you.

James McKenzie

Vafrous · Post by **Vafrous** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:50 am

Actually it is not a pop-up, its directly on the updater on the bottom of it where it would usually say like "download complete" and whatever else.

This is a free game, just download the client at http://shaiya.aeriagames.com/download

And about the linux thing, I have gotten other games to work by copying stuff over to mac so what is so bad about doing that?

And finally I got wine here: http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ I got the stable 1.0.1 version because I assumed that it corresponded with the stable 1.0.1 on linux which I have been successfully able to run shaiya with on linux

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:43 pm

Vafrous wrote:

Actually it is not a pop-up, its directly on the updater on the bottom of it where it would usually say like "download complete" and whatever else.

This is a free game, just download the client at shaiya.aeriagames.com/download

And about the linux thing, I have gotten other games to work by copying stuff over to mac so what is so bad about doing that?

Programs do create their own registry entries when they are installed.
If this, or any other program you moved over, runs in stand-alone
without creating registry entries on installation, you can copy from a
running Windows installation to Wine. However, and this is a BIG
however, this may not work and may even break a running Wine
installation (that is corruption of the user Wine area, not the program
executables.) It is always recommended that programs be installed in
their own Wine bottle and that is explained on the WineHQ under the use
of prefixes.

And finally I got wine here: http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ I got the stable 1.0.1 version because I assumed that it corresponded with the stable 1.0.1 on linux which I have been successfully able to run shaiya with on linux

You answered all of my questions. I'm in the process of attempting to
build, on my own computer, Wine 1.1.13. This will not be a
redistributable package until I can get it to run without erroring
(Mike's 1.1.9 package does on both of my Leopard systems and the only
Tiger system is a PowerPC which his and my builds will not run on.)

Please be patient as there are not many Mac Wine users here, but they
are growing in number. Also, please create an entry in Bugzilla and
please rate this program as Garbage with MacOSX in the Applications
Database. It does not run at the present time and I don't want to
discourage folks, but I do want the truth to be told.

James McKenzie