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As of November 2012, GOG seems to have started offering the games in Mac format. Currently only Fallout 1 is offered. Given that GOG started selling Mac games only a couple of months ago, it can be reasonably expected that the rest will follow too.
This should probably be the best/most affordable way to get the games. Fallout Mac CDROMs on Amazon seem way ...
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Yes. You will have to download some things, however.
First, download the windows installer from blizzard.net. Let it start up and initialize the install - Once it gets to 1% of the actual download, you can close it.
Once it's closed, copy all of the data files from the OS X install over the newly created datafiles in the windows install. This only matters ...
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The Witcher is simply put a horrible "port" that doesn't deserve the name "port".
You could try upgrading the version of Wine it runs on: http://www.insidemacgames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43407#entry409385
Now to get technical: The Steam Overlay for Mac is simply a slightly modified and recompiled version of the Windows Overlay. The Overlay tries to ...
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I was having trouble since I had G&K but I solved it.
I had to update a MainMenu.lua file in a different location than the one given above. Try to one at Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier civilization v/Civilization V : Gods & Kings/Contents/Home/assets/DLC/Expansion/UI/FrontEnd/MainMenu.lua
When you get to the ...
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I wasn't aware of the issues with Diablo 3 and FileVault, but just confirmed that I have FileVault turned on for my primary HD where Diablo 3 is installed. One difference that I can tell between my setup and yours may be that I turned on FV after I had installed Diablo 3.
A few weeks back I installed a new drive in my Mac and the first thing I setup, ...
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This question belongs on http://apple.stackexchange.com/, but what you're actually seeing here is that the text entry system that Diablo uses is "well-behaved". (FireFox's text entry system probably isn't, on account of being cross-platform, and Terminal isn't for similar reasons.)
This question has the opposite problem, but should be illuminating. ...
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You can't move the WoW Folder from Mac to PC and make it run, sadly. Native programs are compiled different for Mac and PC and World of Warcraft is no exception.
However, you can move the Interface and WTF folders to keep your interface and Add-On configuration intact.
Reference can be found here.
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The game you purchased for the Mac was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a single player RPG based on the D20 system, developed by Bioware and released in 2003. (2004 for Mac OS X). It's a great game. What it isn't however, is Star Wars: The Old Republic, a Massively Multiplayer Online RPG developed by Bioware, and released in 2011.
The Old Republic ...
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Yes there is actually a way to play Quake but you'll need the CD contents of the original Quake (or play a shareware version).
Personally I have only been able to get this to work using GLQuake/Quake provided by that link.
REQUIREMENTS
Intel
Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Quake 1 (shareware or retail version).
You can download shareware quake By ID Software ...
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Disconnect internet, open minecraft, and click on play offline. Then, if I were you, I would download and install LogmeinHamachi. Once you've set up a new network and invited your friends, you can go to your multiplayer in minecraft and add your ip address. Hamachi will act as something of a port, and enable you to easily host servers in offline mode.
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Alright, I had trouble with this one but I think I just blew the lid off it.
In Mac OS Lion when you go to the ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier's civilization v/ folder there's no "assets" folder. All that appears is Civilization.app. You need to right click on Civilization.app and in that menu hit "show package contents"
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As Krazer notes in his answer, Screenshots are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Blizzard/Diablo III/Screenshots. Unfortunately, this folder is hidden by default under OS X 10.7 Lion. This means that most users will have no clue how to access their screenshots.
There are three solutions to this.
The absolute simplest, but least persistent, is to, ...
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If you prefer to not always have to press fn when you press F3 then you can reverse the setting so that you press fn with a function key to perform the standard OS X task (i.e. Mission Control would be fn+F3).
System Preferences > Keyboard > Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.
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Blizzard's archive format is incompatible with FileVault due to its low level nature. To get around this problem, you need to move the installer to a partition that does not use FileVault. I would also recommend installing it to a partition that does not use FileVault as well, in case later game updates use the MPQ archive format as well.
I was able to use ...
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Download the Linux/JAR File version of the technic launcher then open a terminal window and cut&paste the following:
cd Downloads
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
java -jar technic-launcher-latest.jar
This will override the java version to use the older 1.6 one supplied by Apple instead of the newer 1.7 ...
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Civilization 5 also lets you do away with the fancy 3d graphics altogether and play on a 2d map with abstract representations of units and whatnot. It's called "strategic view". All you have to do to activate it is push the F10 key on your keyboard.
Personally, I prefer it over the graphics-heavy 3D mode.
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My recommended solution for this kind of thing tends to be "Use The System!".
If you have the option, enabling Time Machine from system preferences to create a full disk backup every hour is usually a good idea, and if you don't have the opportunity, you might want to consider getting an external disk and implementing that approach.
If that is completely ...
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It appears that Borderlands 2 can see only up to the current resolution. So if you have it set to the default, it can see up to 1440x900. If you go to the display preferences and set the resolution to "More space", it can see 2048/1280 (which is pretty close to full retina, and is easy to do).
To run at full resolution, download the Change Resolution ...
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so, let's say I come up with a list of files that you want to replace with Mac versions, the next question would be "Where are you going to get those files?" If you have access to a Mac with those files, you can copy over the entire WoW folder. Problem solved. Much easier than you mention.
But let's try answering it anyway:
So, .exe and .dll files will ...
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The version of LWJGL (Lightweight Java Game Library) that comes bundled with Minecraft is incompatible with the version of Java that you have installed.
If you have multiple versions installed, you can use Java Preferences (usually at /Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences.app) to change your system's default Java version.
You can upgrade LWJGL without ...
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NOTE: I don't actually have OS X myself, but...
Yamagi Quake seems to be the most popular port of the quake 2 source code -- and the most recent release includes OSX support. You'll need the data files from the original CD to actually play, of course, but that's beyond the scope of this site.
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In this case, you've just installed the mod wrong. Considering the zip's file structure, it's an easy mistake to make.
The zip file has this folder structure ([f]iles and [d]irectories as marked):
byzantine mod 2 (v 1).zip
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- [d] Byzantine Mod 2 (v 1)
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- [d] Byzantine Mod
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| - [d] XML
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| + [d] Buildings
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A lot of the files, such as assets (images, textures, models), config files etc, are shared between Windows & Mac - They are the same files and can be used on both Windows and Mac without problems as proved here:
Do Mac and Windows versions of Source games contain the exact same files?.
However, the actual executables (.exe for Windows, .app for Mac) ...
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You might want to clear your [home]/Library/Application Support/minecraft/sounds folder.
It will then ingame download the sounds, i have read somewhere long while ago that you actually need to be in a world to do that. Don't know what happened about this bug.
You could aswell search for a ZIP of the .minecraft/sounds folder online.
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Hello fellow Mac user and BF:BC2 player! There aren't easy way to play Battlefield on Mac OS 10.8.
First try using this but it should not work on 10.8. If you are afraid about legal issues check your country law about having a digital safe copy of product that you own.
If it don't work or don't want to be against law try with CrossOver Mac software. ...
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Well, officially, you can't. Because, sorry to break the news, your rMPB is not running at that resolution.
It physically has 2880x1800 pixels but the resolution is "scaled" down to lower resolutions such 1440x900.
To change that, you will have to use an external tool.
SwitchResX: Can set custom resolutions and do some further cool stuff, has a nice GUI, ...
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As a fellow Apple user I can tel that Aspyr (company who ports some game on Mac and ported Civ V) don't do awesome job.
What you can do;
Turn on your Activity Monitor check and close programs who use a lot of RAM (Google Chrome and Mail are first to go)
Use purge command to find out more free RAM before opening game or download something that do that for ...
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I played that level a week ago, on the Mac version of Psychonauts. As I remember it, I could use the arrow keys to highlight a number button with a green border, and Space (the “Jump” control) to press the highlighted button. After I inputted four numbers, the keypad screen automatically closed.
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Its in "Your HD" > Library > Application Support > Feral Interactive > Dirt 2 > Savegame
I've just had the same thing as you, trying to transfer a game save from one machine to another and I found nothing on the internet about it for a Mac. A little look in the Library folder had the answer.
Hope this works for you too.
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