Won't run on my iMac G5 :(

[Julian]

Hi, I'm glad to see that the project is moving along nicely, I really liked some of the ideas back in BF and am excited to see where it's all going.
However,
I just downloaded RE yesterday, mounted the .dmg file and nothing happened when I double clicked the RE icon.
I'm using an iMac G5 running OSX 10.4.11

Any idea what the problem is?

Thanks,
Julian

[qreeves]

This is a known issue on Mac OSX Tiger that has been fixed upstream. Due to the relatively small number of users it hits, the need for a patch release wasn't deemed necessary. It's an easy fix though.

1. Open the Red Eclipse image.
2. Right (or cmd-) click the redeclipse.app and select show contents (or use properties -> show contents).
3. Navigate to Contents/MacOS/.
4. Download this file and replace "redeclipse" in this folder with it.
5. Try to run the game again.
6. Thank Apple for difficult and inconsistent APIs.

[Julian]

Thanks for the speedy answer.
It didn't help though.

I did just what you said, do I need to change the extension of the patchy thing? When I "get info" for it it says that it's a document, whereas the other files in the folder Contents/MacOS/ are identified as Unix Executable Files.

[Julian]

It's okay, I got it!
I used XRay to change the permissions so that the patchy thing was recognized as an executable.
Now it works.

Thanks for getting me started.

Julian

[fawstoar]

The great thing is that the game actually runs on hardware that old... I have essentially the same machine.

[srbs]

qreeves:
For simplicity's sake, until the next release I think we should tell Tiger users to just delete the redeclipse file & rename redeclipse_compatible to redeclipse.
That way we won't have to deal with the permission issues.

srbs