Wineskin Mac El Capitan
Apple has made it very easier to simply download and install Mojave, even if you are running an older operating system. If your Mac is running El Capitan, Sierra, or High Sierra, here's how to download macOS Mojave. 3.1)First, click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner of your screen. 3.2)Click on App Store. 3.3)Click on the Featured. 无法在绿茵场上尽情驰骋，这种事显然不能忍，立马去 Wineskin 官网看了看，发现有一条关于 OS X EI Capitan 的新闻：Wineskin does not currently work correctly on El Capitan. The issue is being looked into, but I have no ETA for a fix.
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How to Install S & S Windows Applications on a MAC Computer Using Wineskin
Wineskin provides free Windows emulation support to run S & S applications on a MAC.
What is Wineskin?
Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (or later). The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose (that is the strategy used here). Best of all, it’s free and does not require installation of the Windows OS!
If you are satisfied with this installation process, please consider making a donation to Wineskin in support of the excellent work they do in creating the Wine wrapper engine. A brief video tutorial explaining how to use Wineskin to create a Windows wrapper is provided at the bottom of this webpage. Current Version is v2.6.2.
Installation Instructions
- Click on the Wineskin download link. The download will start automatically and show up in your downloads tool bar at the bottom of your browser screen as Wineskin Winery.app V…zip. When the download has completed, double click it to open it in a new finder window.
- Double click the download labeled “Wineskin Winery App”
- Once the app has created a new desktop icon, which will show up in the same finder
window as your download, double click on the Wineskin Winery icon. - This will bring up a security window, asking if you would like to open the Wineskin Winery application which was downloaded from the Internet (even though it is from an unidentified developer), select Open.
- Once the app is installed, it will automatically open. Select the bottom option that says
Create New Blank Wrapper. - Type in the name of the program you are installing (this set of instructions creates a wrapper for the SewArt application. You should replace SewArt with the name of the program you are installing, such as SewWhat-Pro, SewWrite, etc.). Select OK.
- Once the wrapper is created, go to the S & S product download page for the program you wish to install (for example, click Shop->SewArt to access the SewArt webpage). Click the Download (Mac) version button.
- This will once again create a download in your browser. When the download has finished, if
your settings automatically open the downloaded app, you will receive an alert saying your
computer cannot open the application. Select OK. - Single click your Downloads folder (in your dock at the bottom of your screen).
- Select the Open in Finder option
- Right click (two finger tap on your mouse pad) the install app
- This will pop up a menu. Hover over the Open With option. Select the Other… option.
- In the window that pops up, type in the Search box the name of the wrapper you created in Step 6 (SewArt in this case).
- Click the box next to the “Always Open With” option
- Double click the wrapper you created in Step 6 (SewArt in this case)
- If your security preferences do not allow for unidentified developers, click OK on the
security alert that pops up. If no security alert pops up, continue to the next step. - Right click on the install app, and select the Open With then the SewArt option (this will be
based on the name of the wrapper you created in Step 6). - Select Open in the security alert that pops up.
- The SewArt installer will now open. Select Yes.
- Read the Terms and Conditions, and select Yes to agree and continue with the install.
- Select Close once the install has completed.
- Select OK when the alert box pops up saying the program has been installed.
- Right click on the new icon created on your desktop (.ink) and select Open with then
Other… - Search again for the wrapper you created in Step 6
- Important: To skip this step in the future, select the box next to the option Always Open With.
- Select the wrapper you created in Step 6.
- The program (SewArt in this case) will now open, and you can use it just like you would on a Windows computer!
Use the MAC Download button on the product page to download the zipped S & S application Wineskin Wrapper to the Download folder on your MAC. For example, if you are installing SewWhat-Pro, the zipped wrapper file will be named Wineskin-SewWhat-Pro.app.zip. Unzip it and run it to install the product. You may be prompted that “SewWhat-Pro (or whatever application you are installing) is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?” Select “Open” to continue with the installation. You may have to change your security settings to allow the file to run, as explained here. The Wineskin programs will have a wine colored icon next to the file name after they are installed (see figure below).
Once the installation is successfully completed and you open the application, the S & S product application registration box will open. You may now choose to continue using the product as a Demo or enter your registration information if you purchased a license.
Thanks to Kourtney U. for providing this informative step-by-step set of instructions.
The GOG version (and I am assuming others, I do not see why it would be an issue) of Creatures 3 and Docking Station can be run on OSX using a special version of WINE called wineskin. This tutorial helps the player to configure creatures for play.
Step 1: Download and install Wineskin.[edit]
This tutorial was created using OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and Wineskin Winery 1.7 w/ engine WS91.9.11. Other versions should work, but just as a precaution!Wineskin can be found at http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com, with installation instructions.
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Step 2: Open Wineskin Winery.[edit]
Make a new wrapper. If you haven't downloaded an engine yet, do so (just press the + buttons, select an engine to download!). I'll call my wrapper C3DS.
Step 3: If you haven't already, download the Windows Exodus installer from GOG.[edit]
When the wrapper has finished creating, choose 'view wrapper in finder' (alternatively, you can just go to your Applications folder in your home directory - it will be in the Wineskin directory there unless you have told Wineskin to do something funny!). Right click on the wrapper and select: 'view contents of....'. Inside, you will find a couple of directories (will be very important in a bit), and something called Wineskin.app that will do the actual work of running creatures on Mac. Double click it! When it opens, select 'Install software', and on the screen that opens, select 'Choose Setup Executable' - then, select the location of the installer that you downloaded.
Also, while we are here, note the drive_c in the folder: this is where creatures installs to. The main creatures folder for DS can be found inside the package contents at drive_c/GOG Games/Creatures Exodus/Docking Station - install agents, breeds, etc into their respective usual folder.
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Step 4: Install creatures as normal.[edit]
Just go with all the defaults, everything should hopefully install nicely and creatures should start for the first time. Hurrah! Unfortunately, we still have work to do. Exit creatures when it starts. If you don't do the next few steps, when you go to actually play, you will get a 16 bit color depth issue. Most modern Macs don't have a built in 16 bit color mode in their driver, so we will need to do some tinkering to get everything to work. For now, though, just celebrate seeing that loading screen!
Step 5: Here's where things get a bit funky.[edit]
We need to change the color depth to 16 bits for C3/DS to run. To get technical, WINE (which supports running Windows apps on Linux/OSX) uses something else called X11 that supports displays and a LOT of other stuff. OSX has it's own special 'flavor' of X11 called Xquartz, and Wineskin comes with an even MORE special kind called WineskinX11. We need to replace an Info.plist file which determines a bunch of settings that Wineskin uses when it runs WineskinX11 (in this case, to specify 16 bit color). Download the replacement info.plist HEREreplacement info.plist. Going back to the same directory we were in earlier (view contents of.... on YourCreaturesWrapperNameHere.app), and open the 'Contents' folder. Delete the old Info.plist file and replace it with mine. (OSX power users: if you have XCODE installed, feel free to open it up and edit it instead: the Resolution field needs to change from something like 'novdx24sleep0' to 'novdx15sleep0' - might be slightly different on yours, but the important part is that the 24 becomes a 15 (NOT A 16, you'll error)).
Step 6: Run your game![edit]
If it asks to select a main executable, navigate to DS's engine. Things should now work. If you open the Wineskin.app inside the wrapper again, you will need to either replace or re-edit the Info.plist file to be in 16 bit mode as I explained above - Wineskin.app will change things in the plist and inadvertently revert it to 24 bit color, causing the game to not play nice. The main time you would do that is if you are installing the remastered patch or developer tools - you install them by again opening wineskin.app, and selecting install software.... Afterwards, you will need to make sure that the engine is still the main executable. This will be covered more in a future tutorial - I (soliloquy) haven't figured out how well the patch will work or how well dev tools will work, so I haven't covered them here. Any Mac-friendly dev tools that worked with the previous OS X port, like Edos, or Jagent, should work fine.
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Step 7: Move Catalogue files or creature files.[edit]
You will get a catalogue issue if you use agents such as the Garden Box, and your creatures that you export won't show up in the wineskin the way you expect either. This is much like the error that some windows players see or that was seen on the old mac port. In your home folder, you will find a folder titled 'Creatures' in your documents folder; it will have all of the usual file structures - copy any catalogues which have been mis-unpacked from that Catalogue folder to the main one in the drive_c folder of your Wineskin wrapper and you should be good to go - exported creatures also may or may not end up in this My Creatures folder rather than the main one in the drive_c folder of the wrapper.
This is just a first pass at a tutorial for this, sorry if it lacks some clarity!
