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***MacOS Catalina Update Broke Feral Heart - PLEASE HELP***
« on: March 16, 2020, 03:59:14 am »
So, today, I think I made the biggest mistake I have every made.  Today I decided to finally catch my laptop up to date with the last macOS revision, Catalina.  After downloading and installing the new OS, I tried to open up PlayOnMac so I could play Feral Heart.  But it fails to open.  PlayOnMac is apparently not compatible with Catalina. Meaning Feral Heart is no longer working on Mac Hardware.  Almost all of my friends are on FH, and now I am unable to hang out with them.

I don't know what to do or how to fix the problem.  I have tried re-downloading PlayOnMac several times, praying that it would be fixed or updated, but nothing works. And I can't downgrade it because the update was insisted by my professors, since we have to switch to online classes due to the corona virus situation.

Ive been an Feral Heart user for over 5 years now, and now I feel like I've been kicked from my friends and community just because of the Operating System I use is not fully supported at this point.  Please. If anyone has a solution to this new OS, please explain.  Or if the Staff has plans to add new support for Mac Users in a future update or something, please let me know.  I'm scared and I feel shut off now.  I want to come back to Feral Heart. :'(
« Last Edit: March 16, 2020, 04:01:51 am by StrikeHedgehog »
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Re: ***MacOS Catalina Update Broke Feral Heart - PLEASE HELP***
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2020, 08:47:49 pm »
It is completely understandable that you're frustrated with all of this. Hopefully with the new mac system update they will also update PlayOnMac as that is somewhat of a large program that is needed to run quite a few games. Maybe the staff create a new support for Mac, but with how things currently are it could be some time before we see that. A new support for Mac would most likely only come with the new update that is planned to be released.

Until that time, I'd HIGHLY recommend keeping in touch with your friends and such through Discord or some other site that can keep you all connected. I do hope that this fixes soon for you <3

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Re: ***MacOS Catalina Update Broke Feral Heart - PLEASE HELP***
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2020, 01:42:28 am »
It is completely understandable that you're frustrated with all of this. Hopefully with the new mac system update they will also update PlayOnMac as that is somewhat of a large program that is needed to run quite a few games. Maybe the staff create a new support for Mac, but with how things currently are it could be some time before we see that. A new support for Mac would most likely only come with the new update that is planned to be released.

Until that time, I'd HIGHLY recommend keeping in touch with your friends and such through Discord or some other site that can keep you all connected. I do hope that this fixes soon for you <3
Thats the problem. It would appear support for PlayOnMac has been completely dropped by the developers.  I went to their homepage, and by the looks of it, they dont plan on furthering the software after Mac's switch from 32bit to 64bit.  So there isnt gonna happen on PlayOnMac's end.
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Re: ***MacOS Catalina Update Broke Feral Heart - PLEASE HELP***
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2020, 04:27:15 pm »
Thats the problem. It would appear support for PlayOnMac has been completely dropped by the developers.  I went to their homepage, and by the looks of it, they dont plan on furthering the software after Mac's switch from 32bit to 64bit.  So there isnt gonna happen on PlayOnMac's end.

I'm not sure if this will help too much, but this article does have some alternatives to PlayOnMac: https://alternativeto.net/software/playonlinux/?platform=mac
I do hope that at least one of these may be able to help you out!

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Re: ***MacOS Catalina Update Broke Feral Heart - PLEASE HELP***
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2020, 06:29:40 pm »
Hello, I'm a long time mac user and am here to help you! I just have a few questions.  Keep in mind if we can't get playonmac to function I have some alternatives. 

It is unfortunate PlayOnMac dropped their project, because it was so helpful but apple kept messing them up by making macs completely incompatible for gaming.  ):  I am still on an older mac version so it works for me but just barely.

What exactly is happening that makes playonmac not appear to work? Do you receive an error message, does it simply close?  Have you gotten FH to install on the application, and then FH just doesn't open, or what?
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Re: ***MacOS Catalina Update Broke Feral Heart - PLEASE HELP***
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2020, 07:00:26 pm »
Hello, I'm a long time mac user and am here to help you! I just have a few questions.  Keep in mind if we can't get playonmac to function I have some alternatives. 

It is unfortunate PlayOnMac dropped their project, because it was so helpful but apple kept messing them up by making macs completely incompatible for gaming.  ):  I am still on an older mac version so it works for me but just barely.

What exactly is happening that makes playonmac not appear to work? Do you receive an error message, does it simply close?  Have you gotten FH to install on the application, and then FH just doesn't open, or what?

What happens is when I install PlayOnMac, it'll install, but when I try and open it up, it tries to open, but then closes before it can boot up.
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Re: ***MacOS Catalina Update Broke Feral Heart - PLEASE HELP***
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2020, 07:15:02 pm »
Since PlayOnMac is the easiest way to run FH, I'd like to try and work on getting that running, if this doesn't help we'll go ahead and move on to creating a wrapper in porting kit/I'll let you use my crossover license.

Do you have an option to repair disc permissions?  Launch Disk Utility, click on playonmac harddrive and click repair disk permissions.

If you don't, that's fine, moving on.

Click on your desktop, click "go" at the top of the screen, click computer, click your mac hard drive then click library (at least that's how I do it, if you simply have an option to go to library do that!)
See if you have a playonmac plist file and if so move it to the desktop.
Retry.

Lastly, try changing the install location.  If you had it set to move to applications upon install, try just dragging the install onto your desktop and not moving to applications, or vice versa.

If there is no plist file or none of those solutions work, the last thing I'd recommend is restarting your computer and having it's preferences set to no items opening on startup.  When it's all loaded up, right click on your playonmac app and select open (don't just click it.)


Sorry for the hassle, I'll help ya set up a wrapper if none of those work <3
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