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Diablo build for modern operating systems
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[README, How To Play] Where is the DevilutionX game directory? #320

Closed johannes87 closed 5 years ago

johannes87 commented 5 years ago

The README says: "Copy diabdat.mpq from your CD, or GoG install folder, to the DevilutionX game directory ; Make sure it is all lowercase"

Where is the DevilutionX game directory (on Windows, Mac and Linux)?

AJenbo commented 5 years ago

Where ever you decide to put the application

ssokolow commented 1 month ago

For anyone trying to install devilutionX on a mac who gets led here by search engines, right-click/Control-click the devilutionX app and choose "Show Contents", then go into the Contents folder and drop diabdat.mpq into the Resources folder.

AJenbo commented 1 month ago

Just FYI it's a bug in the 1.5.3 Mac build, normally it goes next to the app, not inside it

ssokolow commented 1 month ago

Ouch. That's the kind of thing which would make me file a "BUG: 1.5.4 requires me to clutter up Applications unless I put the game somewhere else and use an alias" over.

I think I'll stay on 1.5.3 for my High Sierra hand-me-down indefinitely then.

StephenCWills commented 1 month ago

You can also use: ~/Library/Application Support/diasurgical/devilution

ssokolow commented 1 month ago

That'd be more suitable, given that I'm already doing similar things for stuff like ScummVM. Thanks.

AJenbo commented 1 month ago

Ouch. That's the kind of thing which would make me file a "BUG:

It's also been like that for all previous versions an you never complained before.

It's down to the metadata generated on the build system and you can adjust it yourself as well.

That'd be more suitable

It's the location pointed out in the readme installation instructions, hopefully most people will find it rather then this issue.

ssokolow commented 1 month ago

It's also been like that for all previous versions an you never complained before.

I usually run it on Linux via Flatpak.

This is the first version I ever tried to run on the High Sierra hand-me-down that only just borderline qualifies for my retrocomputing hobby. (As a rule, macOS 10.0 and beyond are all too similar to current macOS, too locked-down/appliance-ified to be toys in and of themselves, and have too few exclusives.)

AJenbo commented 1 month ago

We are not there yet with the os 9 support

ssokolow commented 1 month ago

That's fine. Aside from having enough exclusives (Ambrosia Software, anyone?), OS 9 is fun in and of itself so I don't need to go searching for uses like I do with OS X.

Heck, I'm currently waiting for the rest of the books I ordered on classic Mac OS programming to arrive in the hope that I'll be able to budget enough study time over the Christmas holidays to get the knowledge to stick if I loop back to chapter 1 of Programming Starter Kit for Macintosh.