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[Smoke_Tetsu]

Yes you heard that right! Unfortunately no Mac version yet. The way I did it to install it in OS X right now using totally free software and not pirating a thing is doing the following:

(1) Open wineskin winery and create a new wrapper I recommend 1.5.12AMDSpeedHack for most Macs such as mine.
(2) Run winetricks and install the following:

• Steam
  
• d3dx9
  
• d3dcompiler_43
  
• d3dxof
  
• Optional: Enable Multisampling

(3) Login to Steam
(4) Close Steam
(5) Install Black Mesa using wineskins installer utility
(6) Let it install source SDK 2007
(7) Add this command line argument to "EXE flags" for steam.exe in wineskin (no cracking involved):

-applaunch 218 -game "....SourceModsBMS"

(8) Optional: Use the icon I made and released last night for the game.
(9) Optional: Install vcrun2005 via winetricks. May help with the stability a bit.

A few bugs and crashes here and there... some of which are reported even in windows. Works good for the most part though. They indicated they aren't going to compile it for Mac anytime soon unless Valve does a substantial update to the Source SDK.

I'm really liking it so far. Very professional for a TC mod. It's almost hard to believe it's not official.

*Update* Someone at portingteam.com claims setting the windows version to win7 with wineskin helps with the stability some too. For me it made it less stable. Not more.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Even after all these years, they are still not done with it. I'll wait until I can play it all through.

Word is that it will be released on Steam.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Yeah, they got steam greenlit. Who knows when it's going to happen though they seem uncommitted to saying as to when it's going to be released through that. So if you want to play it NOW and want to play it in OS X this is your best bet, for now. But yeah, they released everything up until the Xen part in this release.

Hopefully when it drops on Steam though they'll also get it compiled natively for the Mac. I'm not holding my breath though.

[Ichigo27]

For the record, it requires a source engine game, regardless if it's half life 2, or portal? Haven't set up wine on my computer yet, honestly I'd prefer playing a os x native version.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Yes, although it also uses compiled dll's which would also have to be recompiled to dylibs to use on the Mac steam. Also it is currently written specifically to install and run through the source SDK 2007 which is currently not available for the Mac. It goes without saying that I would also like a native OS X version but that's not happening right now... who knows when it will happen. They are bullish about it saying that it wont happen until Valve does a substantial update to the Source SDK.

I got up the the episode "questionable ethics" and it's crashing a lot near the lobby area. Changed a few settings and got further but ran into a few bugs later on. Those of you who aren't up to finagling with their games are probably best served holding off until an official Mac release is done or at least until there's been updates and patches done for the game.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Did some more tinkering to my BMS WINE installation


Did a test doing a new play-through with the changes I have made and I got up to "we've got hostiles" without any crashes. So to me porting it and testing it out for a bit and saying no crashes so far doesn't mean a whole lot. In my opinion one needs to do a lot of stress testing to determine how stable it really is.

Currently after a while performance issues start cropping up and I have to close it and reopen it to restore performance which isn't much better than it crashing and me having to reopen it and start from my last quicksave point.

The extra things I did where:

switched to 1.4 rawinput engine
Winetricks:

• win7
  
• vsm=hardware
  
• orm=fbo
  
• psm=enabled
  
• ddr=gdi
  
• D3D9_43

Posted my thoughts having completed all the levels the game has so far.. (all of them up to the epilogue known as Xen).... here.

[iillll]

I'm having an odd problem with this. Keep in mind this is my first time using wine. I followed your directions and everything seemed to work well. I got steam installed along with black mesa and SDK 2007. The game starts up and runs pretty well. The only problem is that some of the text in game is missing. The title is missing from the title screen, when the game is loading a new section it just freezes for a bit instead of saying "loading". And, most importantly, there is no Health or energy numbers at the bottom, which makes things difficult. Any idea how to fix this?