2022 Myth II install on Mac..issues

[Arasmus]

Hey all,

I've got a Mac (Big Sur of Monterey) and I've got a Win/Mac Myth II CD

But the CD is HFS, so the Mac can't read it. hfsutils will let me pretend to mount the disk and I can see files. I can even copy them out.

But I can't do anything that the ProjectMagma installer will believe is a legitimate basis to perform an upgrade. ( Tried a folder "Applications:Myth II:tags:" but the colons are read as "/" and the installer says "nyet" A CD-install is out of the question because the Finder can't mount the disk.

Anyone out there have a solution for this? Please?

[Myrd]

You just need a folder with the tags folder in it (with all the tag files). The installer should let you target that folder for the upgrade.

[Arasmus]

Thanks, that's what I'd read. But it's not working and I don't know why. Attached are shots of my setup. Again, any help would be great…

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But the 1.8.4 installer just says "You must select an existing Myth II folder."

[Myrd]

Those file sizes look right.

The installer just checks that the "tags" folder is there and contains those files.

The code is literally:

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private static final String[] TAG_FILE_NAMES = new String[] {
	"international small install",
	"international large install",
	"small install",
	"medium install",
	"large install",
};

...
	
	int count = countTagFiles(tagsFolder, TAG_FILE_NAMES);
	return count == TAG_FILE_NAMES.length;
...
	
private static int countTagFiles(File tagsFolder, String[] tagFileNames) {
	int tagFiles = 0;
	for (String file : tagFileNames) {
		File f = new File(tagsFolder.getPath() + "/" + file);
		if (f.exists()) {
			tagFiles++;
		}
	}
	return tagFiles;
}

In other words, for each of the files, it checks if it exists in the tags and if they all do, it considers it a valid folder.

Are you selecting the "Myth II" folder as the destination folder, not the "tags" folder, right? Are you sure file permissions are such that those files are accessible by the installer? What if you copy the Myth II directory to a different location and select that?

EDIT: As a test, I just tried it by creating a new folder called "Myth II" on my desktop and just copying the tags folder into it from my normal Myth II folder and the installer was able to install just fine. Are you sure the filenames match exactly and there are no weird hidden characters in them or something?

[Myrd]

Actually, looking at your screenshots in more detail, it looks like the filenames somehow ended up having underscores instead of spaces in their names?

I'm not sure why... but if you rename and change them back to spaces, I assume it should work?

[Arasmus]

Outstanding!

Thanks very much, I've been waiting almost 20 years to replay this game. When the disk arrived early, the day before my birthday I went from the height of hapiness to the depths of dispair over the course of four fruitless hours.

Myrd, you've saved the day.

Not sure why the hsfutils introduced those underscores, but I don't care now!

Thanks again.

[Pollywog]

How does one get the tag files if the original disc can't be read by their current operating system. I have the original discs, but can't mount them.

[Jon God]

Outside of finding a way to get it to mount on your Mac (I am not sure the issue, if you could post more information, we can try and troubleshoot), but there are quite a few places on the internet you can track down all the files needed to get this working.

[Pollywog]

Ok, where can the tag files be found online then? I've searches and can't find anything

[Jon God]

I would just google like, Myth abandonware or something to that extent.