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- How To Install Wineskin Games On Mac
- How To Make A Wineskin
- How To Install Wineskin On Mac
Some apps installed using the Mac package installer will prompt you for a password when you try to move it to the Trash. In any case you cannot move Wineskin Winery to the Trash or empty the Trash, try holding the Option key as you choose Empty Trash from the Finder menu, or reboot your Mac. Or Wineskin will not open! Of my guide for more details. If you're uncomfortable with using a file downloaded from a complete stranger (and you should be) you can follow my guide here to obtain (mostly) the same Wineskin package.
I’m a huge fan of Bitcoin and Altcoins (other crypto currencies sometimes derived from Bitcoin) but sometimes the developers of these altcoin neglect use Mac users. One coin by the name of “Namecoin” was one I’ve been wanting to get into but didn’t for a while because they didn’t release an official Namecoin Mac Client. I didn’t want to run parallels or some other bloated windows virtualization program just to run the a Namecoin wallet. It is also important for Mac users to have a Namecoin Mac Client and not a web wallet because the novel idea about Namecoin is that you can register .bit domain with their wallet.
The best solution I found for this problem was to use WineSkin windows wrapper for Mac to make your own Namecoin Mac Client. The initial setup for this was kind of confusing but now that I’ve done it once It can probably do it with my eyes closed. The cool thing about WineSkin run the Namecoin client without having to run a full windows verbalization which make this just as fast as a native Mac application.
Below are a few steps on how I set this up on my system.
- First run over to wineskin to download the program here
- Install wineskin as you would any other mac application
- Now run over to Namecoin site here to download the Windows version of the wallet here
- Now open Wineskin and select create new wrapper and name that wrapper “Namecoin”
- Once the the wrapper has finished it’s install setup click “View wrapper in finder”
- Double click the name coin wrapper then select install software
- Now locate the Namecoind .exe file you downloaded and follow the install prompts
- At the end of the install select launch application and you should then see the Namecoin Wallet syncing with the network.
…And there you have it a namecoin wallet running in windows. Here’s a screenshot of Namecoin running on my Mac
Whenever you want to run the wallet again all you will have to do is run the Namecoin wrapper that you’ve created and you can even move that wrapper to your applications folder just like any other Mac app.
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You will also need the PC install discs for NOLF1 (I haven't tested NOLF 2 yet, I should do that!).
The No One Lives Forever [PC].app — is an Intel Application bundle. This is the Wineskin Wrapper, sans any NOLF game app or data. It will expand to about 120 MB from the 27.7 MB compressed ZIP. You need to right-click this app bundle and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up contextual menu.
1. Within the app bundle are three things: (1.) a Contents folder (leave that one alone), (2.) a drive_c folder alias (in there directory/folder structures are like Windows), and (3.) the Wineskin app (this is used to install software and set Wineskin options).
2. You don't need to set ANY OTHER options in Wineskin, except to install NOLF1 [PC] from the install discs as you would for a PC. Double-click the Wineskin app to open it and click the Install Software button. From here an Installer window will appear. Only click the Choose Setup Executable button.
3. From here a 'Please choose the install program' file dialog will appear. Browse to the NOLF install discs and choose the SETUP.EXE on the first disc. If like me, your Mac doesn't have a CD/DVD drive (mid 2011 Mac Minis don't), the install discs could be disc images on your desktop.
4. I have left the file structure of 'Program Files > Fox > No One Lives Forever' in the wrapper, so choose that as the install directory.
5. The Windows installer for NOLF will start. At one point it will ask for the 2nd NOLF disc (just browse to it in the basic-looking file dialog, it needs some data off it). After that it will ask for the 1st NOLF disc again and the installer will finish.
6. After closing the NOLF installer Wineskin will think briefly for a bit, then ask you for the EXE for startup. This should be the Nolf.exe (which it may show in the pop-up menu already). Click to confirm this.
7. You can quit out of Wineskin and close the app bundle folder. If you Get Info the No Lives Forever [PC].app now it should be about 1.13 GB.
8. Yoy need to find the patch updates for NOLF (to 1.02, 1.03, and 1.04), find those on UnityHQ here:
Wineskin additional: from this site
Section 4 - Using Wineskin.app
4.1 The Installer
There are 2 ways to install programs inside the wrappers.
Way 1
Way 2
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NOTE: If the Installer is not a viable option for your program...
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If the program just runs and doesn't install, in the Installer you can choose to move or copy the files in the wrapper and not run a setup program.
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If all else fails installing... you can often install the program in Windows, then just move the finished installed version over into the wrapper as well. Just remember if you do this you may need to manually move some registry settings as well.
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