Confused about running WZ2100 Mods on Macs

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Sub Judicator
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Confused about running WZ2100 Mods on Macs

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Hi all!

Is it possible to run a mod (for example BP) for WZ2100 on a mac? I'm using OS 10.4 and thought it was impossible until I read a post somewhere from Zarel, I believe, mentioning that he had a mac and also mentioning that he was running the BP mod (hazy recollection, sorry no quote). The BP (and other) mods sound great, but I was under the impression that mods couldn't simply be downloaded and installed on macs.

I checked the FAQs page, of course, but under the "installing a mod" line were only instructions for Windows and Linux as far as I could see.

I looked into the forum topic, "Important Warzone 2100 version 2.2.x mod info!" but the information, while super clear, seemed to be only for windows.

I checked into the BP mod topic itself "BecomePrey 2.92," where Zarel's instructions hinted at OSX compatibility in the instructions to "install with command-line options," which (btw) I also couldn't get to work (presumably because it is simply old advice!). I can explain in more depth why I couldn't get the command line option to work, but it probably doesn't matter anyway.

Thanks for reading, and I hope the problem is me!

SJ
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Re: Confused about running WZ2100 Mods on Macs

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Sub Judicator wrote:Is it possible to run a mod (for example BP) for WZ2100 on a mac? I'm using OS 10.4 and thought it was impossible until I read a post somewhere from Zarel, I believe, mentioning that he had a mac and also mentioning that he was running the BP mod (hazy recollection, sorry no quote). The BP (and other) mods sound great, but I was under the impression that mods couldn't simply be downloaded and installed on macs.
Yes, I have a Mac, and yes, I run BecomePrey every once in a while, but I run BecomePrey on my Windows machine, not on my Mac. ;)

That said, there used to be a bug that didn't let mods run on Macs. This was fixed, though, so you're in luck: it is possible to run mods on Mac OS X in the latest version (2.2.1).
Sub Judicator wrote:I checked the FAQs page, of course, but under the "installing a mod" line were only instructions for Windows and Linux as far as I could see.
Sorry, that FAQ page was made back when we had that bug. It's been fixed, so I've just updated the FAQ page with Mac OS X instructions.
Sub Judicator wrote:I looked into the forum topic, "Important Warzone 2100 version 2.2.x mod info!" but the information, while super clear, seemed to be only for windows.
Yeah, well, I didn't make that topic, so I absolve myself of all blame on that one. ;)
Sub Judicator wrote:I checked into the BP mod topic itself "BecomePrey 2.92," where Zarel's instructions hinted at OSX compatibility in the instructions to "install with command-line options," which (btw) I also couldn't get to work (presumably because it is simply old advice!). I can explain in more depth why I couldn't get the command line option to work, but it probably doesn't matter anyway.
Thanks for reminding me. I've updated the information there, as well.