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12 hours ago, Bay said:
On a Mac myself, though higher OS version so I know that will impact certain things. However, I've had straight success ditching Island Rum and swapping to the HC Launcher. You should be able to use that and, iirc, it takes care of the Wine installation.
That being said, I had a very similar issue with Mids. Any time I closed it I would have to restart my computer to get Mids to launch again. After consulting with a couple of folks in the MRB Discord, I was pointed towards Activity Monitor. For reasons I'm not smart enough to understand, Mids (and its associated Wine) were not fully/properly shutting down. Might be worth checking on your end to see if, for some strange reason, Wine is still running, thus preventing a 'new' instance to be launched and run properly. A long shot, but a shot nonetheless.
I appreciate the reply! I found my Activity Monitor, but no sign of Wine. I found "mds" but not "Mids." I don't really understand much of this stuff, tho, so still kinda lost. Ha!
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On 8/22/2019 at 9:52 AM, Manga said:
Note: Since the FAQ is linked here, I'm modifying this post very late in order to keep the latest info here.
There are TWO ways to install City of Heroes Homecoming on your Mac:
1. The preferred way is to download the Mac Installer for the Homecoming Launcher here: https://islandrum.eekstudio.com/mac-installer.zip
2. An alternate way is to download Island Rum for Mac, here: https://islandrum.eekstudio.com/islandrum-mac.zip
Both packages automatically install everything you need!
I've tried both option and still having issues.
1) The Island Rum for Mac option is apparently damaged and the only option I'm presented with when trying to open it is to MOVE TO TRASH.
2) The Mac Installer goes swimmingly until I trying to actually open the game. Downloaded it, went through all the steps I could find from these message boards, and still when I click to start Launch CoH...nothing. I opens Wine Installer, thinks about it for a few seconds, then just shuts it down.
I had it working before this last update, but now I'm not having any luck. I've uninstalled & reinstalled a couple times, but that hasn't helped.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Matt
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On 8/22/2019 at 9:52 AM, Manga said:
Note: Since the FAQ is linked here, I'm modifying this post very late in order to keep the latest info here.
There are TWO ways to install City of Heroes Homecoming on your Mac:
1. The preferred way is to download the Mac Installer for the Homecoming Launcher here: https://islandrum.eekstudio.com/mac-installer.zip
2. An alternate way is to download Island Rum for Mac, here: https://islandrum.eekstudio.com/islandrum-mac.zip
Both packages automatically install everything you need!
I've tried both option and still having issues.
1) The Island Rum for Mac option is apparently damaged and the only option I'm presented with when trying to open it is to MOVE TO TRASH.
2) The Mac Installer goes swimmingly until I trying to actually open the game. Downloaded it, went through all the steps I could find from these message boards, and still when I click to start Launch CoH...nothing. I opens Wine Installer, thinks about it for a few seconds, then just shuts it down.
I had it working before this last update, but now I'm not having any luck. I've uninstalled & reinstalled a couple times, but that hasn't helped.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Matt
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I downloaded from the Manga's page link you provided, I did all the things until I got the successful "ding," then tried to open the application "Launch CoH." It starts up the "WIne Installer," thinks about it for a bit, then it shuts down "Launch CoH" as though nothing ever happened. Bizarre.
I know at this point I'm just rambling and I appreciate anyone who's still reading. Ha!
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It's just crazy because I played last week. It's like the computer just doesn't want to play now... "Oh that program? Yeah, it's installed. No, I don't wanna." Bah!
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Hey, thanks for the response! It's a pretty old Mac (maybe 10 years) running Catalina 10.15.7. I'll give the Discord & Manga options a go. Appreciate it!
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Hello friends! Looking for some help here. Last week I was able to play Homecoming on my laptop. Today, I cannot. I've uninstalled and re-installed BOTH the CoH Launcher and Island Rum. They seem to get installed just fine. I even get the little "ding!" sound. But, when I click the icon for the CoH Launcher or the blue arrow in Island Rum, my computer thinks about it for a bit and just does nothing. Any thoughts, suggestions, incantations, ideas, etc would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
CoH Launcher not working, but Wine Devel does...?
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Hello! This is puzzling to me.
I have previously been able to play City of Heroes Homecoming on my Mac (Big Sur 11.7.6) with no problem. But last night, I clicked the CoH Launcher, it popped up along the bar at the top of my screen for a few seconds then disappeared. After not worrying about it for a bit, as this has happened before, I tried again today. Same results. So, I went right to my applications folder, into the win64 folder, and clicked the launcher.exe which brought up the Homecoming User Agreement. I clicked accept and boom, City of Heroes Homecoming opened. But, it said Not Installed. So I installed it and the game worked. Next I closed it all down, tried the CoH Launcher again and same issue (Launcher not working, had to click Wine launcher.exe and re-install the game).
My question is: wtf? HA! Is there anything that I'm missing or am I just going to have to do this process each time?
Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt