Hackintosh : Sharing core Horror files between OSes
LMahesa:
I installed OSX in a 15Gb logical partition last friday, so I'm now quad booting DOS/XP/Gentoo/OSX. Under XP, I have TS3 installed on an NTFS partition, which is visible with full RW capability under OSX using Paragon's NTFS driver.
Now that I'm fully patched up to 10.5.7, I want to take some games for a spin - starting with TS3. However, I only have 3Gb left on the HFS+ drive.
What I want to know is, is it possible, even theoretically, to have TS3 read the data files from the TS3 folder in my Games partition? I noticed that, after examining the contents of the Mac-side TS3 installer it is effectively a Wine wrapper (BAD, Lazy EA!). Can I unpack this manually and edit whatever config files necessary?
Alternatively, as it uses Wine anyway, is there a way to make Crossover run it direct without going through the whole installation-in-a-bottle process again?
Marhis:
Actually, pretty much ALL the data files are inside the .app, wineserver and stuff included, so I'm afraid it's pretty much impossible to split them. The Sims™ 3.app is 5,91 Gb.
Elaborating more: AFAIK, the binary executable links directly to the data inside the .app; the .app itself is a sort of bottle, I didn't find anything to configure which could lead cider (the executable) to launch stuff located in a different path.
LMahesa:
Thanks Marhis, your explanation's helped me form an idea actually.
I'll mess around with it when I get back from work, and post the results should I be successful.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Marhis on 2009 June 16, 19:57:28
Elaborating more: AFAIK, the binary executable links directly to the data inside the .app; the .app itself is a sort of bottle, I didn't find anything to configure which could lead cider (the executable) to launch stuff located in a different path.
ln -sf?
Marhis:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 June 17, 00:45:34
ln -sf?
Heh, I'm actually doing experiments on links, both symbolic and hard, but with no much success. There's something weird about those; I think it's also because of Mac OS X refuses to consider .app directories like proper directories in any way, and acts weird with the files included, linked or not. Plus, windows shortcuts are different - no way the two systems recognize their link files each other properly.
I'm in the process of trying to sort out something useful - I made an installer similar to Delphy's Monkey, but for Mac - but it's harder than I expected to.
Well, I'm also not the best in these matters, but that's another story :P.
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