Well, I finally got this working. The solution was pretty simple, so I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. Here are some rough directions for anyone else wanting to do this. I'm going to assume you know how to use the things in the "Prerequisites" list. If you don't know how to use them, go to their respective websites and read about how to use them before proceeding.

Prerequisites
You will need:
1. Wineskin (http://wineskin.doh123.com/)
2. Copies of BG1 and BG2
3. A bootcamp partition on your Mac with a version of Windows installed
4. MacFuse (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/) and NTFS-3G (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/) should be installed on your Mac so you can both read and write to the bootcamp partition.
5. The latest version of Baldur's Gate Trilogy (http://spellholdstudios.net/ie/bgt)

Instructions
1. Create a new Wineskin wrapper. Name it whatever, but "Baldur's Gate Trilogy" would seem appropriate. I used the WS8WineCXG10.1.1 engine, but ymmv. Try other ones if you have problems once you get to the end of these instructions.

2. Install your copies of BG1 and BG2 into the Wineskin wrapper.

3. Navigate to the Baldur's Gate Trilogy Wineskin app and right-click on it. Click "Show Package Contents" and then navigate inside of "drive_c" to the place where you installed your BG1 and BG2 installs.

4. Copy the BG1 and BG2 installation folders to a location on your bootcamp partition (e.g., c:\temp).

5. Reboot your Mac into your Windows partition. From inside Windows, install Baldur's Gate Trilogy and any other mods you would like to install.

6. Reboot back to OS X.

7. Copy the original BG1 and BG2 folders from inside your Wineskin wrapper to a safe place (just in case you need to start over). Then delete the BG1 and BG2 folders that are within the Wineskin wrapper.

8. Copy the modified BG1 and BG2 folders from your bootcamp partition into the Wineskin wrapper.

9. Make sure that the Wineskin wrapper is set to launch BGMain.exe from the BG2 folder.

10. Launch the Wineskin wrapper and play Baldur's Gate Trilogy!!!

This is all working for me and I've got BGT plus a few other mods installed, including the Widescreen mod. Just remember to apply all mods over in Windows, because the Weidu that comes packaged with BGT and other mods doesn't like the Mac filesystem and will only install correctly on Windows.

There is no need to use Windows or Boot Camp. Everything can be done from OS X using Wineskin.

In step 3, instead of opening 'drive_c', use the embedded Wineskin app's Command Line Shell to install mods; I used the list at http://www.gog.com/en/forum/baldurs_gate_series/newbie_guide_modding_bg1_if_you_buy_bg1_bg2_from_gog/ . (Ideally you'd be able to install the mods with .exe installers from the embedded app's Install Windows Software option, but most mods' Windows installers aren't compatible with it.)

The OS X drive is mapped to the z: drive. For example, if I downloaded EasyTutu_ToB.exe (the EasyTutu installer for those with the GOG.com-sold versions of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2) to ~/Downloads from OS X, within the fake Windows session I would type

z:
cd \users\yourusername\Downloads
EasyTutu_ToB

Repeat this with each mod. After finishing, 'exit' the command line, then (assuming you installed EasyTutu) change the Windows EXE setting to point to the Baldur.exe in the newly-created BaldursGateTutu directory. Enjoy!

(PS - If you want a full-screen experience and still be able to use Spaces/Mission Control, when installing the widescreen mod set the Y resolution to the height of your screen minus 22 pixels. If you have a 1280x800 screen, for example, tell the widescreen installer you want 1280x778. This will leave room for the menu bar at the top, but the game will take up the entire screen otherwise. If you tell the installer to use 1280x800, when you run the game Wine will automatically assume you want "real" fullscreen, which you can't use Spaces/Mission Control from within.)

You're right... sort of.

But there have been some new releases of WeiDU and BGT since I wrote this and I think some things changed/improved compatibility. I know that Turambar over at Spellhold Studios and Pocket Plane did a lot to get BGT working with *nix systems, and the Mac experience got better as a result.

It sounds like you're using Tutu instead of BGT. That's awesome that it all worked straight out of the box for you! When I try to install BGT via the Wineskin command line shell I get some .bat script errors (Wine apparently doesn't handle empty .bat parameters correctly). It still installs, but it leaves behind some directories and whatnot that ought to be deleted, so it's a bit of a "dirty" install.

On the bright side, I submitted a code-fix to WeiDU that should make it so you can run all the mods from within the Mac Terminal rather than the Wineskin command line shell. I'm hoping that will be available in a new WeiDU build sometime soon. The Mac version of WeiDU actually does a tremendously good job despite the one bug that I was addressing.

HI, I just d/loaded wineskin and both BG1 and BG2 from GOG. I've been a huge fan since it first came out and i've been craving it again. Unfortunately I keep messing up the install with wineskin. I have no idea how this works. I create a wrapper, then select it, then select bg.exe from my downloads menu and install it in c:/. Now I am trying to install BG2 in the same wrapper using a different wrapper and picking the same c drive at the install site. I don't know if this is correct. Then I want to install BGtutu or Easy.tutu. I'm not sure which one. Please help!

The directions I wrote in the original post will definitely work, but obviously they require you to have a Windows install on a bootcamp partition of your Mac. I would recommend following those unless TMWNN is willing to give specific instructions for what he did, but he installed EasyTutu, which is very different from Baldur's Gate Trilogy (aka "BGT").

Can you explain the difference between easytutu and BGT. I want the one that I can play BG1 with the BG2 engine

Both allow you to play BG1 in the BG2 engine. But they do it in different ways.

EasyTutu is JUST BG1, but played in the BG2 engine.

BGT adds BG1 to BG2 into one huge "supergame" where you can start in BG1 and play all the way through to the end of BG2.

Unclear whether you're using the right file and/or installing it right within Wineskin. Here are more full versions of step 2 (whether you plan to run EasyTutu or BGT):

1. Create a new Wineskin wrapper. Name it whatever.
2a. After creating a new wrapper (you can click Cancel when it asks about Gecko), when Wineskin Winery says "Wrapper Creation Finished", choose "View wrapper in Finder". (By default new wrappers appear in /Users/yourusername/Applications/Wineskin.) You're now done with Wineskin Winery; everything else is done with the "embedded Wineskin app" I mentioned in my previous post, which you get to by ...
2b. Right-click the new wrapper and "Show Package Contents". Double-click Wineskin in the newly opened folder.
2c. Click "Install Windows Software". Choose /Users/yourusername/Downloads/setup_baldurs_gate.exe.
2d. After installation finishes (don't launch the new game from the GOG.com installer itself; exit instead), Wineskin asks which of the newly created .exe files you want it to launch when you double-click on the wrapper. Choose baldur.exe, but you'll change this setting later anyway.
2e. With most games you'd be done installing, but because EasyTutu and BGT require both games, repeat 2c with setup_baldurs_gate_2.exe. This time, when asked the 2d question, Cancel.
2f. Now double-click the wrapper to try out Baldur's Gate. This is the vanilla, low-resolution, unmodified version the way people played it in 2000, but you'll get to see it in action.
2g. Exit the game and continue from my step 3. Gammaleak explained the differences. I've never used BGT but have heard many good things about it. I'd be surprised if it, unlike EasyTutu, required using Boot Camp for installation, but can't say for sure; maybe I'll try it for myself.

Edit: I take back what I wrote. Didn't experiment long, but found that the newest BGT WeiDU script using the WeiDU for Mac 231 couldn't find the Baldur's Gate 1 installation in my wrapper; not sure if it's a script issue. Again, EasyTutu does indeed install from within Wine.

(If the above is gibberish to you, that's another advantage of EasyTutu over BGT; the current version of BGT is only available via .zip download from Github with no built-in installer so extant installation instructions aren't accurate for newcomers using any OS, while EasyTutu has pretty thorough instructions with considerably more handholding at http://usoutpost31.com/easytutu/ . Read it in conjunction with the GOG.com forum guide I mentioned in my first post in this thread.)

The download link for the page you gave for Baldur's Gate Trilogy seems to be broken. I'm getting "This webpage is not available".

I just use [url=]https://www.virtualbox.org/[/url] to run windows on my mac - preferably XP, and since BG1 & 2 aren't at all draining on the system resources they run perfectly.

edit: and BGT works just fine as well :)

Following this process, I just get a plain white screen when I launch the wineskin. Has anybody got any experience with this?

I just tried it again and it seems to be working on my end.
Interesting. I use VirtualBox for testing my web development projects with Internet Explorer and it REALLY slows down my 2009 MacBook Pro. You must have a killer Mac. :^)
Are you talking about my directions? Or TMWNN's?

Hy guys old thread,, but I just discovered it as I'm trying to run bgtutu in wine.

Ive followed TWMNN's directions but when I try to run vanilla baldurs gate to test it, wine skin runs for a few seconds then crashes, no windows even pop up, I only see that the wrapper is running because of the top bar in OSX.. This stops me cold, as I don't want to bother installing baldurs gate 2 and tutu, if I can't even run vanilla BG1 correctly.

I have a few different circumstances that I THINK might be causing the problem.

First: I'm running OS X lion. Maybe it's not a big deal but it's caused serious problems with running other old games. (For example, the Weidu Mac client no longer works as lion doesn't support PowerPC etc.)

Second: I'm using a different wine engine, the latest one I could find. I'm going to test using the one that was posted in the OP, that might fix things.


AND LAST, I'm unsure as to how to 'use wineskin's embedded command line function'. I've looked around the wrapper but can't seem to find the command line thing and am unsure how to use it.

Anyway, those are my current issues. Any help would be fantastic. Thank you in advance.

So I Used the engine in OP and vanilla baldurs gate runs fine.

Following TWMNN's directions, I installed baldurs gate 2 and downloaded EasyTutu ToB to /Downloads in Mac OS

Here is where the trouble happens. The command line shell, which I finally found, is giving me a hard time finding the file. It doesn't allow me to write the paths in the same format you did.

For example, you posted:

Z:
Cd /users etc...
EasyTutu-ToB

I can't hit return to start a new line after Z:, nor can I hit return to input the tutu file name after I point it to Downloads.

I'm typing from my phone so I don't have access to the forward slashes and other characters to type out the path I'm imputing, unfortunately. I realize that I misquoted your original path in this post.

I could really use some help with the paths to input in the command line. Do I lead it to the easyTutu folder? Or do I specifically point it to the EasyTutuManager.exe?

Thanks in advance.