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Posted November 17, 2013
First of all I want to say how excited I was that one of my favorite games finally has a Mac port!

Now my problem: I downloaded and installed the game and launched it right away. I got a black screen, then a blue one, then black again, and then the application quit. I tried some tweaks with the screen option in the wrapper but nothing helped.
It's quite strange because Unfinished Business works just fine.

Oh, by the way, I use OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
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Posted November 17, 2013
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Aragornil: First of all I want to say how excited I was that one of my favorite games finally has a Mac port!

Now my problem: I downloaded and installed the game and launched it right away. I got a black screen, then a blue one, then black again, and then the application quit. I tried some tweaks with the screen option in the wrapper but nothing helped.
It's quite strange because Unfinished Business works just fine.

Oh, by the way, I use OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
I have the same problem.
Mac mini (late 2012) and OS X 10.9
Posted November 21, 2013
I have the same problem on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro and 10.9 Mavericks. The first time I launched, X11 asked to use incoming internet connections (IIRC), which I couldn't allow before the black, blue, black screens. I then allowed it and tried starting the game again, to no avail.

EDIT: I enabled the assistive devices for JA2 and booted the system. Now it looks like it might work - it loads longer before giving me a black screen - but it doesn't.
Post edited November 21, 2013 by halsqui
Posted November 24, 2013
Count me in among those for whom the game does not work. I'm trying to get this to run on Macbook Air 13" with OS X Mavericks, same symptoms, same result. Can someone from GOG please investigate and fix the issues?
Posted November 25, 2013
Jip. Same here. After I tricked the "cant open cos the developer isnt verified by Aplle"-message I got the blue-black-blue lightshow.
Oh its because we have a intel graphic and it isnt supported...pls fix that GOG!
Post edited November 25, 2013 by ElCapitano
Posted November 26, 2013
Had the same problem. Contacted GOG support - they said the same as ElCapitano (intel graphics). I got a "replacement game" from GOG, so no Jagged Alliance 2 - but Fallout Tactics instead.
Posted November 29, 2013
I recommend installing Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. It's the same game, but with some bugs fixed. I'm not able to post links here, but there's a thread on these forums on how to get started.
Posted December 14, 2013
So if I have an Intel graphics card I can't play this? Is there any mac that can?
Posted December 14, 2013
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halsqui: I recommend installing Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. It's the same game, but with some bugs fixed. I'm not able to post links here, but there's a thread on these forums on how to get started.
It's completely fine to link stracciatella as it was the result of a proper source code release: https://bitbucket.org/gennady/ja2-stracciatella/downloads (about mavericks problems & solution: https://bitbucket.org/gennady/ja2-stracciatella/issue/54/sdl-1215-wont-compile-on-os-x-109)
Post edited December 14, 2013 by shaddim
Posted December 15, 2013
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halsqui: I recommend installing Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. It's the same game, but with some bugs fixed. I'm not able to post links here, but there's a thread on these forums on how to get started.
Mind explaining how you got this to work? I've seen your posts in the threat here but nothing I find seems to make this any easier. I downloaded JA2 for Mac OSX from GOG (no one else has mentioned that the Mac version is just the game in a wine wrapper) and the 'pre-compiled' version of the mod for mac. Trying to follow the readme.txt is where things start to go downhill.
Extract zip archive with the game.
- Not sure where that is in this case as the game is already packaged with wine. Based on previous experience I revealed the JA2 package contents and navigated through drive_c > program files> gog.com > Jagged Alliance 2. I dumped the Stracciatella files here.
JA2-Stracciatella can work with many versions of Jagged Alliance 2 data files.
You should start the game by running one of the command files, corresponding
your version of the game files.

For example, if you have English version installed, start the game by running
ja2-ENGLISH.command. If you have French version installed, start the game by
running ja2-FRENCH.command, etc.

The first time you start the game, a hidden folder ".ja2" is created in your
user directory ("/Users/YouName/"). In there is a file "ja2.ini".
- This is my first real issue; I launched the game as soon as it was done downloading (and got the black/blue error/crash), but there's no hidden fold ".ja2" and "ja2.ini" is in the Jagged Alliance 2 folder. When I try to edit it, though, there's basically nothing there. All it says is:
[Ja2 Settings]
CD=c
- Since I can't really edit it and redirect the folders... I'm stuck. I can't find anything about this issue or modifying this specific version of JA2. Other versions talk about compiling the SDL and all that, but I assume since this 'pre-compiled' stracciatella doesn't include instructions for downloading any of that stuff, I don't need it. Is that right? Did anyone actually get this version to work? Thanks!
Post edited December 15, 2013 by DrMordecai
Posted December 15, 2013
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halsqui: I recommend installing Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. It's the same game, but with some bugs fixed. I'm not able to post links here, but there's a thread on these forums on how to get started.
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DrMordecai: Mind explaining how you got this to work? I've seen your posts in the threat here but nothing I find seems to make this any easier. I downloaded JA2 for Mac OSX from GOG (no one else has mentioned that the Mac version is just the game in a wine wrapper) and the 'pre-compiled' version of the mod for mac. Trying to follow the readme.txt is where things start to go downhill.

Extract zip archive with the game.
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DrMordecai: - Not sure where that is in this case as the game is already packaged with wine. Based on previous experience I revealed the JA2 package contents and navigated through drive_c > program files> gog.com > Jagged Alliance 2. I dumped the Stracciatella files here.

JA2-Stracciatella can work with many versions of Jagged Alliance 2 data files.
You should start the game by running one of the command files, corresponding
your version of the game files.

For example, if you have English version installed, start the game by running
ja2-ENGLISH.command. If you have French version installed, start the game by
running ja2-FRENCH.command, etc.

The first time you start the game, a hidden folder ".ja2" is created in your
user directory ("/Users/YouName/"). In there is a file "ja2.ini".
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DrMordecai: - This is my first real issue; I launched the game as soon as it was done downloading (and got the black/blue error/crash), but there's no hidden fold ".ja2" and "ja2.ini" is in the Jagged Alliance 2 folder. When I try to edit it, though, there's basically nothing there. All it says is:

[Ja2 Settings]
CD=c
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DrMordecai: - Since I can't really edit it and redirect the folders... I'm stuck. I can't find anything about this issue or modifying this specific version of JA2. Other versions talk about compiling the SDL and all that, but I assume since this 'pre-compiled' stracciatella doesn't include instructions for downloading any of that stuff, I don't need it. Is that right? Did anyone actually get this version to work? Thanks!
What version of OSX are you running? It took me forever to get the damn thing working on Mavericks, this is how I did it.

1) Launch the .command
2) open terminal and type "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True; killall Finder" to show the hidden folders
3) edit the .ini file in the hidden folder to point to the JA2 .exe
4) I had to launch the program via terminal and make a automator script to make an app. I used "/Applications/Games/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program\ Files/GOG.com/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2/ja2 -res 1280x800 -fullscreen; exit;"

hopefully that works
Posted December 16, 2013
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DrMordecai: Mind explaining how you got this to work? I've seen your posts in the threat here but nothing I find seems to make this any easier. I downloaded JA2 for Mac OSX from GOG (no one else has mentioned that the Mac version is just the game in a wine wrapper) and the 'pre-compiled' version of the mod for mac. Trying to follow the readme.txt is where things start to go downhill.

- Not sure where that is in this case as the game is already packaged with wine. Based on previous experience I revealed the JA2 package contents and navigated through drive_c > program files> gog.com > Jagged Alliance 2. I dumped the Stracciatella files here.

- This is my first real issue; I launched the game as soon as it was done downloading (and got the black/blue error/crash), but there's no hidden fold ".ja2" and "ja2.ini" is in the Jagged Alliance 2 folder. When I try to edit it, though, there's basically nothing there. All it says is:

- Since I can't really edit it and redirect the folders... I'm stuck. I can't find anything about this issue or modifying this specific version of JA2. Other versions talk about compiling the SDL and all that, but I assume since this 'pre-compiled' stracciatella doesn't include instructions for downloading any of that stuff, I don't need it. Is that right? Did anyone actually get this version to work? Thanks!
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chinischilla: What version of OSX are you running? It took me forever to get the damn thing working on Mavericks, this is how I did it.

1) Launch the .command
2) open terminal and type "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True; killall Finder" to show the hidden folders
3) edit the .ini file in the hidden folder to point to the JA2 .exe
4) I had to launch the program via terminal and make a automator script to make an app. I used "/Applications/Games/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program\ Files/GOG.com/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2/ja2 -res 1280x800 -fullscreen; exit;"

hopefully that works
Thanks Chinischilla, I'll give that a try right now. Appears my OS is still Mountain Lion, thought I had downloaded the update awhile ago. I'll report back if this works for me. Thanks again!
Posted December 16, 2013
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chinischilla: What version of OSX are you running? It took me forever to get the damn thing working on Mavericks, this is how I did it.

1) Launch the .command
2) open terminal and type "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True; killall Finder" to show the hidden folders
3) edit the .ini file in the hidden folder to point to the JA2 .exe
4) I had to launch the program via terminal and make a automator script to make an app. I used "/Applications/Games/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program\ Files/GOG.com/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2/ja2 -res 1280x800 -fullscreen; exit;"

hopefully that works
So I've used the command in the terminal and it worked as advertised, problem now is I can't find this mystery hidden folder. Under drive_c > users there are five 'users,' one of which bearing the name of my harddrive and the rest being crossover, M2, public and wineskin. All of these contain the same thing - a bunch of default (and empty) Windows folders and no hidden .JA2 folder. JA2.ini still has nothing in it. Nor is it anywhere else I can find! This is beyond frustrating.
Posted December 17, 2013
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chinischilla: What version of OSX are you running? It took me forever to get the damn thing working on Mavericks, this is how I did it.

1) Launch the .command
2) open terminal and type "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True; killall Finder" to show the hidden folders
3) edit the .ini file in the hidden folder to point to the JA2 .exe
4) I had to launch the program via terminal and make a automator script to make an app. I used "/Applications/Games/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program\ Files/GOG.com/Jagged\ Alliance\ 2/ja2 -res 1280x800 -fullscreen; exit;"

hopefully that works
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DrMordecai: So I've used the command in the terminal and it worked as advertised, problem now is I can't find this mystery hidden folder. Under drive_c > users there are five 'users,' one of which bearing the name of my harddrive and the rest being crossover, M2, public and wineskin. All of these contain the same thing - a bunch of default (and empty) Windows folders and no hidden .JA2 folder. JA2.ini still has nothing in it. Nor is it anywhere else I can find! This is beyond frustrating.
I believe the command to show hidden folders has changed for mavericks. Google the command for whichever version of OSX you are running and you should find it.
Posted December 17, 2013
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chinischilla: I believe the command to show hidden folders has changed for mavericks. Google the command for whichever version of OSX you are running and you should find it.
I've found the right command for Mountain Lion, simply put I can't find the .ja2 folder they specify here:

"The first time you start the game, a hidden folder ".ja2" is created in your user directory ("/Users/YouName/"). In there is a file "ja2.ini". Edit this file and insert the correct path to the Jagged Alliance 2 data files..."

None of the folders under /users/ contain this hidden folder, even though I've done the steps to reveal it. I've gone through the entire contents of Jagged Alliance 2 without finding it, so I'm really wondering how halsqui got it to work!
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