axeme Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Hello all. When I launch the A6 demo on OS X 10.5.8 (mac mini) I only get a black screen. Now, I know that there is an issue regarding case sensitive drives and all that, but what does that really mean? OS X is based on BSD, which is very case sensitive. I installed A6 to the Applications folder, and when that didn't work, deleted it, rebooted, downloaded a 2nd time and re-installed it into my /Users/axeme folder with the same results. I feel like a noob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mystic Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Try setting your monitor to a different screen resolution before starting the program; that's worked for me in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axeme Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. Thanks though. I'm sure this problem is exactly what the error message says, I just don't know how to fix that on a system where every drive, file and directory is case sensitive. Edit: I tried installing AV6 to a FAT flash drive, which would not show any graphics either. FAT is certainly a case-insensitive format. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celtic Minstrel Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Mac OSX is case-insensitive by default, so it shouldn't be a problem unless you've specifically changed that. However, it's pretty easy to check. Go to /Applications/Utilities and open up the Disk Utility program. Click on the drive in the left column, and look at the bottom of the window where it says "Format". If your drive is case-sensitive, it will say "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive)" or "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)". If it is case-insensitive, it will just say "Mac OS Extended" or "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". Or you could try creating two folders with the same name but different case and see if the Finder complains. On an unimportant note... if you want to install it in your home folder, I recommend putting it in ~/Applications – it'll automatically give the folder the special Application Folder icon (just like the root /Applications folder icon). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axeme Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 It's a case-sensitive, journaled file system, as I would want it to be. I've just recently started cross-platform development between OS X and Linux, where I will be porting a number of applications to OS X. Case-sensitivity is a requirement for this. I find case-insensitive systems rather sloppy, but I can see where the average user could find it annoying. Maybe I'll cobble together an external drive and format it with the case-insensitve method and see what happens. Thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A less presumptuous name. Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Someone posted a solution for using a case-sensitive drive with this. I'll see if I can find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyranicus Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 OS X does not default to case-sensitive, at least not in my experience. I have never bought a Mac that was formatted that way. When formatting a new drive with Disk Utility, it does not default to case-sensitive either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axeme Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 Yes, my mistake. I've been going over Apple's support pages on this and I see what you and Celtic Minstrel are talking about. Thanks for the correction. I'm wondering if it was changed when this machine was updated with Leopard from Tiger. Its my wife's Mac, amidst a jungle of Linux systems. Its what I have to do my development on until I buy my own. I just can't decide if I want the 27" iMac, or the 17" MacBook Pro, but that's another topic. Master1, if you find anything, please post it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A less presumptuous name. Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 I skimmed through all the tech support pages in the right time frame, but didn't find it. Sorry. All I remember is that it involved creating weird file paths to get around the case-sensitivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celtic Minstrel Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 You would have to change the filenames to match the expected case. If I recall correctly (which I probably don't) there was some problem where the Geneforge executable is inconsistent in the case it uses, so you might need to make a few aliases/symlinks as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axeme Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 I tried that with the graphics files. I threw together a bash script to convert all the graphic filenames to lowercase. That didn't work, so I then used 'strings' and 'dtruss' to see what it may be looking for, but that didn't help either. I just found another built-in OS X utility called 'opensnoop' that will watch file access as it occurs. Hopefully it will show the attempts to open files. I'll have to try that once my wife gets off her system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axeme Posted March 13, 2010 Author Share Posted March 13, 2010 I've been sent this remedy by support. It works well. http://www.ironycentral.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=190683 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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