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Neopergoss

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Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« on: May 16, 2010, 09:49:52 pm »
How do you do it? I feel pretty dumb for even asking but I'm not sure what to do. Sorry if someone asked this already but I couldn't find it anywhere.
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2010, 09:50:31 pm »
Install WINE.  Run it in WINE.
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2010, 09:52:00 pm »
It's not working in WINE. Maybe I have an old version or something? I downloaded the new one for mac today and can't get it to run.
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2010, 10:03:52 pm »
Quote from: Neopergoss on May 16, 2010, 09:52:00 pm
It's not working in WINE. Maybe I have an old version or something? I downloaded the new one for mac today and can't get it to run.
If you downloaded the one for Mac of course you don't need WINE.  WINE runs windows programs.
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2010, 10:50:43 pm »
Which brings me to my original question: how do I run dwarf fortress on mac? I'm talking about the mac one.
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2010, 11:24:39 pm »
Currently, you have to run it via command line.  The old 40d# versions worked this way, too.  Go to /Applications/Utilities and open Terminal, and type the following:
cd /[Directory]/[Directory]/[etc]/df_osx
(or whatever you've called the folder)

And then sh df to run DF itself.

Bit of a hassle, yeah, but it's better than nothing and he'll presumably fix it at some point.  And yeah, Toady should probably document it better, since it has been a while since it was first mentioned.

Quote from: 2009 devlog
01/09/2009: Another update, this time for Mac as well: Windows, Linux, Mac, and Discussion Thread

On the Mac, for the moment you'll have to open up a terminal and run "sh df" from the folder.
(near the bottom of http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_2009.html )

Hopefully that clears things up.
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2010, 11:44:26 pm »
I think the mac version comes with a terminal script to run it, 40d did, and the new linux one does. Look for a text file ending in .sh
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2010, 01:49:20 pm »
Thanks guys, I got it. Actually I did it before on the old version but forgot how and couldn't find where it said, so I don't feel bad for posting this thread.
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Re: Running Dwarf Fortress on a Mac
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2010, 04:46:57 pm »
Thank you all.  I was similarly confused since I had never done any of the 40d#, just the 40d which had the bundled-in app to deal with such things.

I've just gotten it to run and have fired up arena after seeing what I needed to do. :D
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