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https://github.com/leafi/fix-spacechem-os-x
Script/instructions to fix SpaceChem for OS X 10.11
https://github.com/leafi/fix-spacechem-os-x
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Script/instructions to fix SpaceChem for OS X 10.11
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/leafi/fix-spacechem-os-x
- Owner: leafi
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-02-11T14:55:07.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-12-15T04:08:51.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-08-03T01:39:28.065Z (6 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 23.7 MB
- Stars: 40
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 9
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Fix SpaceChem for OS X 10.11
SpaceChem has bitrotted a bit. It uses SDL_image 1.2.12, a version that surprisingly broke on modern OS X, and it's very picky about the version of Mono required. (Must be 32-bit, must **not** be 4.3+ - Mono broke something. Ugh.)
But I'm here to take all your troubles away.
**Patcher app: ->** https://github.com/leafi/fix-spacechem-os-x/releases/tag/v2.2
**Note: This is for the Steam version. I have no idea about anything for the Humble Bundle version.**
The app downgrades the particular shipped version of SDL and also includes a known good standalone version of Mono (thanks to MonoKickStart). Run it, or read on for more rambling technical info.
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Without MonoKickStart: SpaceChem doesn't include Mono - you have to install it yourself - and Mono 4.3/4.4 break some web stuff so you need to use Mono 4.2 or older, and you **need** to make sure you use 32-bit Mono not 64-bit Mono, and...
Visit the Wiki if you want to understand what the hell is going on. It's very hairy.
### For the technical: Read the shell script and examine the tarball.
Ah, this page used to be full of technical stuff. I found a thing called MonoKickStart that lets you ship Mono inside applications, and now everything is hunky dory.
bonsai.tar.bz2 is an archive with all the files to be updated/replaced in SpaceChem.app, curated and massaged by yours truly based on Mono 4.2.4.4, and fix-spacechem.sh is a script that'll copy the files over.
'Fix Spacechem.app' is just the script in .app form, running in a window. Nice little program called Platypus did that.
Everything's here, so if you don't trust me at all or you're just curious, dig through the wiki and the tarball.
# Issues?
Make issues on GitHub ideally, or complain in that Reddit or that Steam thread.
Try to `cd` into the Resources directory inside SpaceChem.app and do `./SpaceChem.bin.osx` from a Terminal. Copy the output, and if it says it made a .zicrash file somewhere (and it will), please go find that file. (It's a zip file with a funny extension; if you rename it, you can see `exception.txt` inside which is really the key here.)