Rare Blacksmith

You're right, that probably comes from my personal history as a Unix veteran ;-)
Disk Utility does the job perfectly.
Anyway you have to use the command line for mounting the image. The image has to be mounted on a path with strictly lowercase characters. The Finder won't do that ...

About a year ago I posted some solution in this forum. But it needs some work in Terminal.app.

G5, and now A6 do not run on a case-sensitive disk per se. All new Macs have their disks formatted now case-sensitive, journaled hfs+.

 

The solution is to create an appropriate .dmg file, mount that and install G5 resp. A6 on that.

The following commands did work for me.

 

hdiutil create -megabytes 70 -fs HFS+ -volname g5 g5.dmg

sudo hdiutil mount -mountroot /mnt g5.dmg

 

Then installed Geneforge 5 on g5. That did it.

For playing afterwards you just have to mount the .dmg file in Terminal.app. The mounted volume will show up in the finder.

 

sudo hdiutil mount -mountroot /mnt g5.dmg

 

Good luck.

 

Edit: for Avernum 6 you will need larger .dmg file, something like that:

hdiutil create -megabytes 120 -fs HFS+ -volname a6 a6.dmg

Finally got a solution, used hdiutil to create a small mountable volume and mounted that on path with all lowercase. Thanks for the hint Khoth !

 

hdiutil create -megabytes 70 -fs HFS+ -volname g5 g5.dmg

sudo hdiutil mount -mountroot /mnt g5.dmg

 

Then installed Geneforge 5 on g5. That did it.

Hmm, forcing mount on /mnt didn't help, investigating further

subject says it all .. is there any chance to get Geneforge 5 running on a case-sensitive disk ?

I would have no problem with mass-renaming files or the like, if it would help.

 

Edit: I had a similar problem with Eschalon, where it helped to run the program directly from the .dmg without installing. This does not help with Geneforge 5 ...