[Whitesnake]

Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone has tested Sacrifice on Leopard yet?

[brianl1188]

Hi,

I was wondering something similar, just if Sacrifice would work on a low-end Macbook Pro with Tiger?

-Brian

[Jac42]

Yes it works under Leopard, at least it does on my Dual 2.5 GHz G5. I was able to install it and run the first tutorial using the 1.0.1 update available at Macgamefiles. The only problem I noticed was that the spell timers are pixelated.

Jack...

[Mango]

Whitesnake, on November 11th 2007, 08:37 PM, said:

Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone has tested Sacrifice on Leopard yet?

I thought this game never worked properly under any release of the Mac OS.

[Eric5h5]

Mango, on December 21st 2007, 10:19 PM, said:

I thought this game never worked properly under any release of the Mac OS.

And yea verily, many years later, I discover the answer (at least for 10.4.11, not Leopard, sorry). Hearken: Sacrifice works if you've got one CPU. So, for dual CPU users such as myself, use the Processor preferences pane (I believe you have to install the dev tools to get this) to disable one.

Yes, I dug this up yesterday after a very long time of "meaning to get around to it", and it was technically playable, but had various glitches. Always crashing right before the end of the third tutorial being one, not playing the initial cut scene being another, and annoyingly, some of the audio would cut out after several minutes, and then sometimes (even more annoyingly), start cutting in and out randomly after that. So I was pretty much going to give up on it. But today I had the sudden inspiration of disabling a CPU, which also fixed another otherwise glitchy MacPlay game, namely Giants. Now the third tutorial no longer crashes, the cut scene plays, and, after an hour or so, the audio has yet to cut out.

Anyway, I'm kind of digging this game now. I'm not entirely sure if the whole "RTS from a 1st-person perspective" thing is quite clicking for me yet, and there seems to be a bit too much lengthy and uneventful "running from one place to another" (the speed-up spell doesn't help as much as I would hope for and teleportation is limited), but it's different enough to be interesting and kind of addictive; reminds me slightly of Onslaught mode in UT2004. Also learning the keyboard shortcuts helps. Plus the typically bizarre Shiny Entertainment stuff is, well, entertaining.

--Eric

[Matt Diamond]

Eric5h5, on September 22nd 2009, 01:54 AM, said:

But today I had the sudden inspiration of disabling a CPU, which also fixed another otherwise glitchy MacPlay game, namely Giants.

Excuse me. Are you saying that Giants works if you disable extra CPUs?!? I thought it was a goner several OS upgrades ago.

Hoping it's true,
Matt

[Eric5h5]

Matt Diamond, on October 9th 2009, 06:04 PM, said:

Are you saying that Giants works if you disable extra CPUs?!?

It does work well on 10.4.11, yes. Apparently it can be made to work in Leopard as well: http://forums.macrum...ad.php?t=488642

--Eric

[Matt Diamond]

Eric5h5, on October 9th 2009, 06:16 PM, said:

It does work well on 10.4.11, yes. Apparently it can be made to work in Leopard as well: http://forums.macrum...ad.php?t=488642

--Eric

Thanks! Glad I held on to it.

[lewdvig]

Eric5h5, on September 21st 2009, 11:54 PM, said:

And yea verily, many years later, I discover the answer (at least for 10.4.11, not Leopard, sorry). Hearken: Sacrifice works if you've got one CPU. So, for dual CPU users such as myself, use the Processor preferences pane (I believe you have to install the dev tools to get this) to disable one.

Yes, I dug this up yesterday after a very long time of "meaning to get around to it", and it was technically playable, but had various glitches. Always crashing right before the end of the third tutorial being one, not playing the initial cut scene being another, and annoyingly, some of the audio would cut out after several minutes, and then sometimes (even more annoyingly), start cutting in and out randomly after that. So I was pretty much going to give up on it. But today I had the sudden inspiration of disabling a CPU, which also fixed another otherwise glitchy MacPlay game, namely Giants. Now the third tutorial no longer crashes, the cut scene plays, and, after an hour or so, the audio has yet to cut out.

Anyway, I'm kind of digging this game now. I'm not entirely sure if the whole "RTS from a 1st-person perspective" thing is quite clicking for me yet, and there seems to be a bit too much lengthy and uneventful "running from one place to another" (the speed-up spell doesn't help as much as I would hope for and teleportation is limited), but it's different enough to be interesting and kind of addictive; reminds me slightly of Onslaught mode in UT2004. Also learning the keyboard shortcuts helps. Plus the typically bizarre Shiny Entertainment stuff is, well, entertaining.

--Eric

And the soundtrack is mint.

[Eric5h5]

Yep. I actually ended up liking this quite a bit and played through the campaign 5 times (necessary if you want to see all the levels). I did find a couple of other crashy things that turning off CPUs doesn't help with (hey, it's MacPlay!), but was able to fix them.

--Eric

[Matt Diamond]

Seems I need more help with Giants. I disabled all but one CPU but it crashes. I tried 2 patches from the interwebs: "build 2" and "multiplayer beta". MacGameFiles claims to have "Build 7" but won't let me download it. Then I managed to find it somewhere else, but although it's a .SIT file stuffit expander says it doesn't recognize the file format.

If anyone has a line on the unimpeachably latest patch I'd appreciate it. Other advice also welcome.

[Eric5h5]

Matt Diamond, on October 18th 2009, 04:23 PM, said:

Then I managed to find it somewhere else, but although it's a .SIT file stuffit expander says it doesn't recognize the file format.

Where did you find it? I don't have it, and looking around a bit just gives me broken links.

--Eric

[Matt Diamond]

Eric5h5, on October 18th 2009, 06:26 PM, said:

Where did you find it? I don't have it, and looking around a bit just gives me broken links.

I just found a better link at atomicgamer.com. They have an artificial waiting time to download for non-subscribers, but Stuffit Expander had no problem opening it once I got it. Still crashes, though. :-( Maybe it'll work for your setup though.

[Tesseract]

I have Giants Build 7. Enjoy.

[Matt Diamond]

Neither of the build 7's worked for me. Ah well.

[Tesseract]

Do you mean you couldn't extract it again, or the new app didn't work?

[Matt Diamond]

Tesseract, on November 11th 2009, 06:18 AM, said:

Do you mean you couldn't extract it again, or the new app didn't work?

They extract fine, but I always get the same crash, even with CPU's reduced to 1.

It's okay, I just consoled myself by buying Braid and Bioshock. :-)