Install City of Heroes: Homecoming on Mac Catalina
(August 8th, 2020)
Open a Terminal Window
Applications->Utilities->Terminal
Install Homebrew (a utility that installs other utilities)
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Install xquartz (some video thing)
brew cask install xquartz
Install wine (a Windows emulator)
brew cask install wine-stable
Download "Island Rum" (this is an application that downloads the City of Heroes app)
http://telstar.eekstudio.com/islandrum-mac.zip
Unzip islandrum-mac.zip
Copy "Island Rum.app" to Applications
Run "Island Rum"
It probably won't work. If it doesn't, click
Settings->Security->General->Open Anyway
That should launch it
It will hopefully say "Client not detected. Install or cancel?"
Go with "install"
Wait a good long while.
It will download the game to "/Applications/CoH"
Try the "Play" button
If it works, you're done, have fun.
It probably won't work.
Shut down Island Rum
Back to the terminal
cd /Applications/CoH
wine64 "/Applications/coh/hc-bin64/cityofheroes.exe" -patchversion 20200628_1602 -auth 51.161.76.201 -patchdir homecoming
Some Windows popup will notify you about wine configuration being updated
It will ask to download some "Mono" thing. Let it.
It will ask to download some "Gecko" thing. Let it.
If you got this far, it should load up City of Heroes!
Oops, we forgot to make accounts.
Visit https://forums.homecomingservers.com/register/ and make a forum account
Then make a game account here: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/gameaccount/
Ok, now log in to the game (with the game account, not the forum account) and start "arresting" the bad guys! (Don't be a villain, you're better than that)
Note:
If the line for the launcher isn't working, there's a launch script in /Applications/CoH called islandrum.sh. The last line should have the right launch command if you remove the "/bin/sh -c" and quotes.
