Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
So far, I've only found one game that won't work under Maverick. Unfortunately, it's my favourite, most played game: Settlers 7, Paths to a Kingdom. Why do we have to lose our favourite applications every time there is a major "improvement"?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), May only relate to Preview
Just to make it clear what is going wrong:
Neither button appears to do anything.
Ah. It seems my second favourite game, Heroes of Might and Magic V doesn't work either. This one just sort of quietly goes back to Finder. I am now mightily ****** off with OS 10.9.
I have had exactly the same problem with Settlers 7. I had only just purchased this too.
I can't believe such an "improvement" could have such a negative impact.
Come on Apple get these things sorted! Any further support on this would be appreciated.
I am getting exactly the same errors.
Robert Bannister wrote:
So far, I've only found one game that won't work under Maverick. Unfortunately, it's my favourite, most played game: Settlers 7, Paths to a Kingdom. Why do we have to lose our favourite applications every time there is a major "improvement"?
Have you been to the Developer's website to see if they are compatable with Mavericks or if they are planning a patch? That is up to them, not Apple. They would have had access to Mavericks pre-release to update their programs, so it is not Apple's responsibility.
You can always reinstall you system backup from before you installed Mavericks and then wait until the game developers update their side of things.
Cheers
Pete
I got another problem: newsgroups. I can read my emails, but as soon as I open news.individual.net which is my newsgroup server, Thunderbird goes into an endless loop, allegedly deleting expired messages. I have contacted Thunderbird and news.individual.net, but it can't be coincidence that this only started with 10.9.
I have had Apple computers since 1981. For the first time, I am thinking of changing to the Dark Side.
It's all very well to say it's the developer's problem. In fact, it is my problem, and it's my problem because Apple doesn't give a **** about its customers these days. This has happened several times before, but in the past I had "Byte" to warn me a change was coming. This change came without warning: suddenly the apps program told me I would want to upgrade. It didn't tell me I would lose all my favourite programs, the very reason for owning a computer.
Sorry, but I am one very dissatisfied customer.
Robert Bannister wrote:
It's all very well to say it's the developer's problem. In fact, it is my problem, and it's my problem because Apple doesn't give a **** about its customers these days. This has happened several times before, but in the past I had "Byte" to warn me a change was coming. This change came without warning: suddenly the apps program told me I would want to upgrade. It didn't tell me I would lose all my favourite programs, the very reason for owning a computer.
Sorry, but I am one very dissatisfied customer.
The Developers would have been given access to the beta versions of Mavericks to give them ample time to update their software to be compatable. Many already have. Some are either incompetant in this regard or their software is simple not developed well enough to ever be upgraded (Quicken and Unsanity come to mind). So blame Apple all you want, but get your facts straight first. Nobody forced you to upgrade to Mavericks immediately. Many wait until they are happy with the reports they are seeing (and not in Trouble Shooting Forums, But in Reveiws) and THEN upgrade.
Good Luck
Pete
In fact, it is my problem, and it's my problem because Apple doesn't give a **** about its customers these days.
God, I get tired of reading these sorts of things after every upgrade. I don't know why I'm even bothering to respond, I just found this extremely irritating.
The fact that these apps stopped working correctly most likely means that their developers did something they weren't supposed to, and when an undocumented behavior they were improperly relying on changed, the apps broke. Apple is not responsible for making sure every piddly little developer's app is still working... if they were, it would take them 20 years to release a single upgrade.
Update your apps or downgrade your system.
When OS 7 came out, there was a great deal of publicity about it long before it happened so that we were all prepared. The same when OS 10 came out. This is not OS 11, but merely 10.9, and the original message I received did not even make it clear that Maverick was an Operating System, let alone that it was going to damage my set-up. I usually accept upgrades more or less automatically because I used to trust Apple, but then we have seen the iPad that was 4G, but wasn't in Australia, and the Apple map program that had horrifying inaccuracies when it came out, and iPhone 5 that wasn't very much at all, so slowly my trust has evaporated.
Sure I can downgrade, which will take hours and involve lots of saving to external drives and moving stuff back again, but I should have been warned.
It was clearly marked as a new Operating System. And for most there have been no issues. It's pretty easy to downgrade using your backup or bootable clone.
Cheers
Pete
It did not mention it was an OS until it was restarting. However, what's done is done. I have solved my newsgroup problem on advice of the server by deleting the profile in my email program and adding it afresh.
I had thought to solve a lot of games problems at one hit by installing Boot Camp 5 and running W*****s (if I can remember the tortuous way it works), but now I can't find that version of Boot Camp anywhere. The Apple Support program leads to a downloads page, but then says the item can't be found. Might this mean there is another Boot Camp version in the pipeline?
seemed to be clearly marked
Well, I apologise. I must have skipped those titles - two of them. I really didn't realise when I started the download. Ah, well, we learn from our mistakes.
Here is a tutorial on creating a launcher app to get Settlers 7 working under OS X Mavericks.
In Automator, add the action "Run Applescript" from Library / Utilities.
Paste this code in the script and save as an *.app. This will allow Settlers 7 to work under OSX mavericks.
on run {input, parameters}
set settlers to "/Applications/The Settlers 7 - Paths to a Kingdom.localized/Settlers7.app"
do shell script "sudo open " & quoted form of settlers with administrator privileges
return input
end run
Well, I finally got round to doing what you suggested. For a few moments nothing happened, then the menu bar looked as if it was going to work, but then I got the message
Unhandled priveleged instruction at
address 0x9b66c9c0
Do you want to debug?
Naturally, I chose "Yes", but that didn't seem to do any good.
BTW, when you said save as an *.app - I saved it in Applications as "SettlersLaunch.app" - was that OK?
games don't work under 10.9
