EB on RTW for mac

**amdonati** · 05-01-2010, 15:16

Hi all,

I am happily still playing Europa Barbarorum on my MacBook Pro in a Boot camp partition, which still exists almost only for RTW (that does not seem to like parallels).

I was wondering if it would be possible to install EB in the RTW version for mac that was just released or, as I suppose the installer will not work, is there a walkthrough on what must be done to bring EB in the MAC version of the game.

It would be great if I could stop switching and could play EB directly in OSX!

Many thanks in advance for any help!

amdonati

**Tellos Athenaios** · 05-01-2010, 16:51

If you have your bootcamp partition set up and accessible from within Mac OS X, I gather that some smart copying of files should do the trick. You may want to start small, though: first try to install the Multi Mod Sampler (google it) which is a project to include a tiny piece of a multiple modes (samples) and present them as a mod of its own. (Demo!) The reason why I suggest it is that it is faaar smaller in size but similar in layout to EB (it also used the -mod switch for launching the mod), so it is suitable for quick experiments.

**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.