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I'm going to add a workaround for that piece of stupid design in the OS soon. In the mean time, rebooting fixes it. Correction: It's just been added!

What has helped others in the past is, rename the coh folder in Applications, and then run the newest LaunchCat and let it start over from scratch.

There is now! I just released a second (well, third) update that allows LaunchCat to launch and even update itself wherever it sits. It also downloads its files to a temp folder before extracting them, so that should improve some of the file permission issues. If that works out pretty well, I'll see about adding the temp folder downloads to Island Rum as well (if it can handle it).

It probably self-updated because I forgot something and added it just now. The self-update drops it into the last known application folder setting rather than the current folder like Island Rum does. I might change that in the future because I didn't anticipate the sheer number of people who throw it on the desktop and then wonder why it self-updates every time (they don't look in the Applications folder).

I altered the error detection so it should be able to figure out better whether it's a download issue or file/folder permissions. It also might now have improved file permission compatibility since it now downloads its files to a temp folder.

It's not so much the cross-platform of it than that having the coh folder in Applications is always the way it's been done, and changing it suddenly will confuse a lot of people. Plus having Island Rum move the coh folder around on launch is kind of hazardous because of the minefield of permissions issues that constantly causes issues. I added a new toy, though! If you download and launch LaunchCat once it will create a LaunchCat.plist file in your user Documents folder. Then you can alter that to change your Applications and coh folder paths, and whether or not it auto-launches. It's now somewhat hackable!

Ok the Island Rum launch path issue has been corrected, and I also added a fix to make sure changing the path works.

I'm looking info the launch path issue. Where your setup gets tricky though is that when you're using limited users, Apple expects that apps are only able to write to the user folder. But it also doesn't allow detection of whether it's a limited user or not. So in order to support limited users, Island Rum and LaunchCat would have to be stored in ~/Applications (your user Application folder) in order for it to be able to self-update, and the game files would have to be in either ~/Application Support (user Application Support) or ~/Documents (user Documents). That would be a major change, and would inconvenience a lot of people if it doesn't work right or if they're used to the current coh folder location and like to be able to find their screenshots and demos there.

Something is blocking LaunchCat from downloading anything, then. I'm not sure what that would be, maybe some security software you have?

Are you clicking the arrow-shaped play button (or the X it transforms to) while it's updating?

Non-admins can’t write to the Applications folder or its subfolders, so both Island Rum and LaunchCat don’t like that. I haven’t added the ability for LaunchCat to escalate permissions. You can either use an admin account, launch LaunchCat as an administrator, or open Terminal and use “sudo open /Applications/LaunchCat.app” to get around it.

There are a few people for some reason who are somehow having downloads from LaunchCat blocked, or from their computers. The URL that file comes from is this: https://launchcat.powermadsoftware.com/wine9.zip See if you can download that separately.

The new version is now out of beta. If that doesn't fix it, then we might have to troubleshoot why your Mac is not allowing apps to download files.

That sounds like a permissions issue - try removing the Applications/coh folder and see if the app is able to create a new one.

I'm now testing a beta of a native MacOS/Xcode build of LaunchCat: https://launchcat.powermadsoftware.com/launchcat-beta.zip Give it a try and see if it works better for you.

I'm now testing a beta of a native MacOS/Xcode build of LaunchCat: https://launchcat.powermadsoftware.com/launchcat-beta.zip Give it a try and see if it works better for you.

That's because I can't spell! It's been corrected above.

Now I know why so many of these are popping up. When I uploaded the new version I forgot to replace mac-installer.zip as well. For now you can download this: https://launchcat.powermadsoftware.com/launchcat.zip

The earlier mentioned LaunchCat beta is now released!

The next generation of LaunchCat detailed above is now released!

Download this instead: https://launchcat.powermad.net/launchcat.zip (it will handle all of the HC Launcher setup for you)

I have started a beta cycle for the next generation of LaunchCat (click the underline to download it). This new version is lighter weight built in .NET Maui for MacOS only without any baggage from the Unity game engine. It also fixes a couple of bugs in previous versions - but it may have new ones, which is why it's in beta! It also requires at least MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) to run, but Wine 9.0 now requires that as well, so they're perfectly aligned.

I have started a beta cycle for the next generation of LaunchCat (click the underline to download it). This new version is lighter weight built in .NET Maui for MacOS only without any baggage from the Unity game engine. It also fixes a couple of bugs in previous versions - but it may have new ones, which is why it's in beta! It also requires at least MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) to run, but Wine 9.0 now requires that as well, so they're perfectly aligned.

Wine is not infected, it was sourced directly from WineHQ. It's a false positive.

If anything strange happens with LaunchCat, the best place to start is rename the coh folder inside Applications and launch LaunchCat again. Rebooting first helps sometimes, too.