Mac X/ 2.0.8 patch question

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Originally posted by Johan K:
Here are the instructions.
Download patch for Mac OS X. Unzip file, control-click on it, and select "Show Package Contents". Then open up your dominions application in the same manner and replace all the individual files (not entire folders) in the dominions application with their corresponding equivalents from the patch.

The worst thing about this is it ought to make perfect sense, but in the situation at hand it doesn't exactly apply...

In the package contents screen I see:
MacOS folder with the Unix executable (~3M) and nothing else;
Resources folder with a bunch of things that weren't loaded in from the CD on original install so they don't "replace" anything;
Some subfolders in the Resources folder with more new files (the Orania map for one).
When I launch the Unix thing this happens:


/Users/daniel/Dominions2/dominions2; exit
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
Abort trap
logout
[Process completed]

This a clue for anyone?

[Johan K]

Put individual patch files into old application. Now you have to start Dominions2 from the directory it's located in e.g.

$ cd games
$ dominions2.app/Contents/MacOS/dom2 -wd

(wd starts it in a window and with extra debug info)

Otherwise doubleclicking on dominions2 should work too of course.

BTW, we are looking into using iPatch to create the next OSX patch, That should make the process much easier.

[ March 10, 2004, 11:11: Message edited by: Johan K ]

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Originally posted by Johan K:
Put individual patch files into old application. Now you have to start Dominions2 from the directory it's located in e.g.

$ cd games
$ dominions2.app/Contents/MacOS/dom2 -wd

(wd starts it in a window and with extra debug info)

I assume this refers to the Unix executable (its icon is the dark gray rectangle). Just making sure I'm understanding so the next misadventure is due to something other than me completely missing the point...

Otherwise doubleclicking on dominions2 should work too of course.

See below for what happened... about 2 Posts ago... And what about this 'guiborder.tga' item that it couldn't open? I did a search for it... no sign of it. Should that be happening?

BTW, we are looking into using iPatch to create the next OSX patch, That should make the process much easier.

Oh goody.

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Etaoin Shrdlu:
See below for what happened... about 2 Posts ago... And what about this 'guiborder.tga' item that it couldn't open? I did a search for it... no sign of it. Should that be happening?

There should be a guiborder.tga in dominions2.app/Contents/Resources. If there isn't then something has gone bad.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

[quote]Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

There should be a guiborder.tga in dominions2.app/Contents/Resources. If there isn't then something has gone bad.

Bingo. DL'd the patch again, inspected the contents... not there. So I'm not going nuts after all... ooooorrrrrr........ am I?
(cue theremin music...)

[Johan K]

I recommend reinstalling from the CD as the files can be found there.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Originally posted by Johan K:
I recommend reinstalling from the CD as the files can be found there.

Have already reinstalled (after trying Psitti's suggestion in post 2 this thread). Searched the CD for *.tga. Nothing. At least I seem to be asking the right questions (not my strong suit really...). Anyone else running into this problem? I even looked in the demo (on my soon-to-be previous computer) to see if that had it. No luck. I just can't figure where else to look, especially since I don't know what it does...