Mac Os Sierra

[SirOddspodge]

When I first tried out OA, It was on an old machine (eMac) running an old system (10.5.6) Ran beautifully, Later I tried to run it on my slightly less fossilized machine (1st gen intel MacBook) on pretty much the same system (10.6.8 ), Didn't work, So With my 2002+ Macintosh/OS X experience, I figured it was an issue with architecture (CPU), That was not the problem, So I compared the File systems on both machine's internal Hard-drives, The eMac was using an older FS, The macbook was using a Crappy New one, So I formatted an FDD with Fat32, Moved the OpenArena folder there, Run it out of that, Finally ran, And much better than before, I would suggest formatting an FDD with Fat32 or something, (Also tried this on a sierra-running machine, Worked just as well)

[jackoverfull]

That's pretty odd, given that there hasn't been a new Apple FS until this year, definitely not on 10.6.

However, perhaps you were using Case sensitive HFS+? A lot of applications have issues with that one and it's intended only for kernel development.

[Gig]

Strange, usually the tricks to allow OpenAena to run on OSX include setting correct file attributes and allowing unsigned apps (see (DO NOT LINK) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/Manual/Install#Mac
and (DO NOT LINK) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/Manual/Install#About_OA_0.8.8_on_Mac).. maybe the OS skips some checks, if the file is on a filesystem that does not support the required file attributes at all? Just trying to guess..


PS: FDD? Floppy Disk Drive? :-/

[jackoverfull]

No, it might easily be a problem of case sensitiveness: traditionally on macOS and Windows UPPERCASE and lovercase fine names doesn't really matter for applications, but there i an option in macOS to have a case sensitive file system where "file" is different from "FILE".

As OpenArena also run on Linux, where case sensitiveness is normal, this shouldn't happen, but I guess it's not impossible it does, as almost nobody uses macOS on a case sensitive FS.