| 16-11-2007 01:03 PM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. |
no probs. to thank me enough you can name one of your bases after me 
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| 16-11-2007 12:37 PM | ||
| Crispy |
X-Com now works on my Mac! Yea! r.u.s.s.: I can't thank you enough for your patience and for all of your help. I unzipped the file on my Windows PC at work, then put it on my USB chip and brought it home. It loaded up with no problem. I think the errors probably happened when the Mac unzipped the file. Advice to any other Mac users who are having this problem: Unzip on a PC and then transfer the files to your MAC. All should work then. I didn't have to do anything special to it: it just worked. Again, r.u.s.s.: your help has been vastly appreciated. Thank you. Most Sincerely, Crispy ... 'scuse me now while I go play! |
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| 16-11-2007 08:55 AM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. | maybe you could rename them with any random name without exe extension and after transferring to mac, naming them the right way | |
| 14-11-2007 12:39 PM | ||
| crispy | I tried renaming the files: still doesn't work. Then saw your post and checked: the file sizes are different. They're only 188 kb and 64 kb. I'm assuming the files were corrupted when I put them on the mac. Tomorrow I'll check the files on my PC at work, and maybe see if I can transfer, but I have the feeling that OS X has some problem with the file types. I'll give it one last shot to see if that works, but after that, I think I'll surrender. | |
| 14-11-2007 08:53 AM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. | just check the filesizes, thats why i wrote them in there=P | |
| 13-11-2007 10:29 PM | ||
| crispy |
Thank you very much for your help. Before I read your message, I dl'd ufo on my windows PC at work and checked the files: same result as you. Looking at most of the file names, I think I've identified which is which: Main xcom folder: two files * dP_¿]__ò____ _____0_ (Unix Executable File) = dos4gw.exe * - (Unix Executable File) = intro.exe runexe folder: one file * runexe folder with one file: a Unix Executable File called - = run.exe ufo2exe folder: one file * ufo2exe folder with one Unix Executable File called - = tactical.exe ufoexe folder: one file * ufoexe folder with black.exe and one Unix Executable File called - = geoscape.exe The only ones I'm not 100% sure on one the first two because there are two of them, but as the first starts with 'd', it may be the dos4gw. Tonight when I get home, I'll rename the files. I'll post here how it goes. I know from the dosbox comments under UFO: Enemy Unknown that a few other OS X users have had trouble in the past, so if this works, I'll direct them here and hopefully, if this works, other users can follow this to a solution. Thanks so much again for your help. I'm learning a lot here. |
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| 13-11-2007 04:26 PM | ||
| _r.u.s.s. |
hey glad you have solved it and found the missing excutables  sry that i didn't post back but i study and didn't have any time to access to the forums.let me download ufo and tell you the name of the excutables edit: here are the excutables in xcom folder and some of it's subfolders xcom ├runexe │└run.exe 30 658 bytes ├ufo2exe │└tactical.exe 384 985 bytes ├ufoexe │├black.exe 4 252 bytes │└geoscape.exe 382 957 bytes ├dos4gw.exe 254 556 bytes ├intro.exe 74 314 bytes ├setup.exe 21 572 bytes ├done.com 738 bytes ├go.com 1 169 bytes ├noway.com 839 bytes ├welcome.com 705 bytes ├full.bat 35 bytes ├install.bat 841 bytes ├small.bat 16 bytes └ufocd.bat 308 bytes |
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| 12-11-2007 01:15 PM | ||
| Crispy |
Missing files marked as Unix Executable File: Main xcom folder: two files runexe folder: one file ufo2exe folder: one file ufoexe folder: one file |
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| 12-11-2007 01:10 PM | ||
| Crispy |
further update: according to this forum here: http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbth...15&Main=488826 if I rename the file and add the proper extension, the files should work. Apparently (for you mac users who in the future may follow in my footsteps and wonder why xcom doesn't work on your mac dosbox) OS X 10.4 sometimes doesn't know how to read older files, and so temporarily reassigns them as Unix Executable Files. The person in this thread was working with jpegs and excel files and said this: Quote:
r.u.s.s., thanks again sincerely for your patience and help. |
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| 12-11-2007 01:04 PM | ||
| Crispy |
Mac Issue: I did a search for Unix Executable File, and according to some posts on this forum, this is a Mac 10.4 issue. http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbth...?Number=517779 I'm really sorry for the amount of time you've spent helping me with this, when it seems there's a problem with how the mac reads the files. For those files that have - as a name, and are Unix Executable Files, if I know the original name, I might try to rename the file and see if that works. |
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