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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: General Battuta on July 29, 2008, 12:15:47 pm

Title: .exe installers
Post by: General Battuta on July 29, 2008, 12:15:47 pm

Because the Macs I use are the property of my host family, I'm a bit unfamiliar with them.

Is there any way to open the .exe installers commonly used for released campaigns on a Mac? If not, I just wanted to make campaign creators aware that this can pose some difficulties, and it would be good to simply post compressed VPs as well as an installer.

Examples of campaigns that use .exe installers include Earth-Brakiri War (TBP) and Inferno, both of which I'd like to (re)play.

Title: Re: .exe installers
Post by: Jeff Vader on July 29, 2008, 01:59:49 pm

Some campaign creators might think that they're doing a service to the dumb Windows users who can't deal with anything more complicated than an automated installer. I'm sure the majority here can handle vp files, especially if they're released with a readme explaining what to do with them.

But as far as I know, there aren't even that many .exe campaigns/mods. Inferno stuff, some TBP campaigns... well, that's it.

Title: Re: .exe installers
Post by: Tinman on July 29, 2008, 02:36:28 pm

here is a Mac/Linux friendly EBW archive...   :)

Expand the contents of the archive into your "The Babylon Project" folder and you're ready to go...

http://freespace.flatdisc.net/EBW.7z (http://freespace.flatdisc.net/EBW.7z)

I'll upload the archive also to fsmods.

Title: Re: .exe installers
Post by: phreak on July 29, 2008, 04:28:39 pm

Is it an Intel Mac?  Couldn't you just run Wine?

Title: Re: .exe installers
Post by: General Battuta on July 30, 2008, 02:34:15 am

If I owned said Macs I would happily do so!