Can someone please break this down for me? I do not understand what to do, I've trialed and errored for an hour or so. Pictures or specific details not in computer lingo would be best. Thank You
Big Brother on Mac
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I can confirm this works!
Hey, I tried doing this, and it says as I try to install the program I need XQuartz 2.7.7 or higher. My Wine works properly with other games, and I didn't see anybody else mention XQuartz. What is that?
First, download wine-staging from here:
It will install "Wine Staging.app" into your applications folder. Run that, and it will open a terminal window. cd to the directory that BB isn installed in, then type "wine BigBrother.exe".
Thanks, @rilakk !
Edit:
I've written a shell script to launch bb directly. It assumes you have Wine Staging.app in the same folder as BigBrother.exe. If you don't, change the path on the last line.
<path to BB> is the full path to the directory that contains BigBrother.exe (or relative to your home directory).
launch Terminal
cd to the directory you want your script in
cat << EOF >> bb
#!/bin/sh
cd <path to BB>
WINEDEBUG=-all ./Wine\ Staging.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin/wine BigBrother.exe > /dev/null
EOF
chmod 755 bb
Now when you double click on bb, it will launch Terminal and fire up BB!
If this doesn't work, it's most likely a path issue. Double check that <path to BB> and the path to Wine Staging.app is correct.
Hey, I tried doing this, and it says as I try to install the program I need XQuartz 2.7.7 or higher. My Wine works properly with other games, and I didn't see anybody else mention XQuartz. What is that?
First, download wine-staging from here:
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It will install "Wine Staging.app" into your applications folder. Run that, and it will open a terminal window. cd to the directory that BB isn installed in, then type "wine BigBrother.exe".
Thanks, @rilakk !
Edit:
I've written a shell script to launch bb directly. It assumes you have Wine Staging.app in the same folder as BigBrother.exe. If you don't, change the path on the last line.
<path to BB> is the full path to the directory that contains BigBrother.exe (or relative to your home directory).
launch Terminal
cd to the directory you want your script in
cat << EOF >> bb
#!/bin/sh
cd <path to BB>
WINEDEBUG=-all ./Wine\ Staging.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin/wine BigBrother.exe > /dev/null
EOF
chmod 755 bb
Now when you double click on bb, it will launch Terminal and fire up BB!
If this doesn't work, it's most likely a path issue. Double check that <path to BB> and the path to Wine Staging.app is correct.
@TCMS why was this moved to solved? It still does not work. I am trying to run BB on Mac with wine, can anyone please help?
It doesn't work for you, but this is a much known and solved problem for Mac users.
Here's an easier suggestion for you: use one of the Wine GUI apps. Still Wine, but adds GUI features on top which make them much easier to handle.
I would recommend
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or
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for these purposes. See the
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page from Wine itself for more suggestions. If that all fails, you can always use VirtualBox or similar emulators.
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@BlackieMamba Please let me know if you find a solution, as @MrBree suggested. I'm at work and won't have time to try these programs for at least a day or two, but am eager to try this game!
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