Running the games on Intel Macs?

Author	Topic: Running the games on Intel Macs?
vorpal Apprentice Member # 5657	written Sunday, April 9 2006 06:59 Profile #0 Hi all, I wonder if any of you have had any luck getting any of the SpiderWeb games to run on the new Intel Macs? I know that classic games won't run on these machines, but I figured that games in Carbon like the Avernum and Geneforge ones should be fine as they can execute through Rosetta. Anyways, I was really dismayed this morning when I pulled out my new and shiny Geneforge 2 CD, tried to install it (which went fine), and then double clicked on the game, only to have it open in TextEdit as a bunch of binary garbage! Same thing for Blades of Avernum. Avernum 4 was the only one that worked okay. Any ideas if this is fixable, or if Jeff has any plans to make these games playable? I just shelled out $55 for the Geneforge trilogy, had my PowerBook die just after I finished the first game, and now I might not even be able to play the other two :( . Posts: 7 | Registered: Saturday, April 2 2005 08:00
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, April 9 2006 09:30 Profile Homepage #1 Get Info on the application and look under the Open With choices. I've occasionally had my computer decide that various Spiderweb offerings would be best treated as documents, but the application itself remains one of the choices for opening. —Alorael, who also has seen the applications' icons go through a number of fascinating permutations. They particularly want to be Sibelius documents. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Grain of Salt Infiltrator Member # 6652	written Sunday, April 9 2006 09:42 Profile #2 Once I saw everything installed on a friend's computer turned into SimCopter saved games. He didn't even own SimCopter, either. It was strange. -------------------- But I don't want to ride the elevator. Posts: 420 | Registered: Sunday, January 8 2006 08:00
Spidweb Board Administrator Member # 1	written Sunday, April 9 2006 13:24 Profile Homepage #3 Look on this page, section C. Should solve your problem. http://www.spidweb.com/misc/download.html - Jeff Vogel -------------------- Official Board Admin spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com Posts: 960 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Spidweb Board Administrator Member # 1	written Sunday, April 9 2006 13:24 Profile Homepage #4 Look on this page, section C. Should solve your problem. http://www.spidweb.com/misc/download.html - Jeff Vogel -------------------- Official Board Admin spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com Posts: 960 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
radix malorum est cupiditas Lifecrafter Member # 6403	written Sunday, April 9 2006 13:30 Profile #5 Oooo, Jeff double-posted. :P -------------------- ??? ?????? ???? ????? Posts: 883 | Registered: Wednesday, October 19 2005 07:00
vorpal Apprentice Member # 5657	written Sunday, April 9 2006 13:44 Profile #6 Weirdness. Even though it was listed as an application, it would still open in TextEdit. Then I rebooted, and all is well. Posts: 7 | Registered: Saturday, April 2 2005 08:00
Reve Apprentice Member # 6924	written Monday, April 10 2006 05:31 Profile Homepage #7 Heh I get video files open in my text editor in Windows, it's not just MacOS that gets confused :) Posts: 30 | Registered: Friday, March 17 2006 08:00