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Old October 29th, 2003, 01:39 PM

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Default Re: Mac OSX demo wont launch! Help

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Originally posted by Stavetor:
I just got the latest Version of SDL tonight and the demo still doesn't work, although now what happens is that it starts up for a few seconds and then crashes. I checked on the console and the error message I got was:

NÂgot gick fel!
loadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga

Based off this and the fact that Stuffit crashed yet again after a second download, I think Cameroon may be right. Maybe the archive is corrupt? Although that doesn't explain why it seems to work alright for St.patrik and (I'm assuming) others...

As an aside, anyone know what "NÂgot gick fel!" means?
I downloaded SDL this morning. The installer informs you that you can install it in /Library/Frameworks (the system framework directory) or in your home Framework directory ~/Library/Frameworks (you need to create the Frameworks folder in ~/Library if it doesn't already exist). I decided to go with ~/Library/Framework option because, honestly, I didn't want it global to the system until I knew it was going to do something useful.

DOM2 fired right up. There are definitely some packaging issues, or else Illwinter is indicating that the Users need to download SDL to play the game (but that seems awful silly ).

For those who are having trouble with the game
- download the Runtime Library of SDL for Mac OS X (you can find the link here: http://www.illwinter.com/index.html )

- then either create the Frameworks folder in your home Library, or follow the default and let it install into /Library/Frameworks (you'll need sys admin privs for the default option)

Those are the steps I followed and I got a pretty DOM2 start screen

For what it's worth, I'm on a G5 with 10.3.

Hope they fix their packaging issues and I hope those having difficulty with the demo can get into the game with the above help.

This definitely sucks for Illwinter though, lots of Mac Users are gonna download the demo and have it not launch and chuck it.
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