EB on RTW for mac

**amdonati** · 05-04-2010, 23:45

Thank you for the feedback.
Yes I do have the Boot Camp partition with the windows version of EB.
But aren't in EB any executables that could not work on the mac?
I do not know the internal logic of the mod and would like be sure that there is a reasonable possibility of success before buying the game again.
MMS seems a win executable as well

Amdonati

**Tellos Athenaios** · 05-05-2010, 01:23

The mod itself is purely a set of files, no executables. The file you download, however is a Windows installer which *is* an executable (usually some variation on a self-extracting archive). So unless you have a program capable of opening and extracting the EB mod files from the installer, your best bet is to *install* EB on the bootcamp partition using Windows; and *copy* the files to your Mac version of RTW. You will need to manually create the necessary shortcuts/launchers or whatever the Mac clone is.

Apart from the mod itself the installer bundles a few other items:
The EB validation tool is written in Java, so if you have the appropriate Java runtime (a Java 1.6. should do) installed on the Mac that works, too.
The recruitment viewer and trivial script won't work; but you can work around the latter issue using shell scripts.

**Skullheadhq** · 05-05-2010, 13:08

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

using Windows;

Why would he want to play it on the MAC OS X when he has Windows to play it on? Also, do you have "Crossover Games"?

**WinsingtonIII** · 05-05-2010, 18:39

Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

Why would he want to play it on the MAC OS X when he has Windows to play it on? Also, do you have "Crossover Games"?

Because then you need to keep a partition on your harddrive and reboot every time you want to play. If the only reason you have a windows partition is for EB, I can understand wanting to remove that partition if you are now able to play EB on OSX.

**Ludens** · 05-05-2010, 18:41

Moved this to the tech help forum.

**Skullheadhq** · 05-06-2010, 09:06

Can't you just run a virtual machine and play it that way?

**amdonati** · 05-07-2010, 18:04

This was my first try but unfortunately RTW in Parallels 5 on a Macbook pro with a Core2 Duo 2.4 and nvidia 9400m is absolutely unplayable for its slowness even in the strategic map.
The funny thing is that on the same setup I can play Oblivion!
:-(