Semi success!

Totally ignoring the installer, I unpacked The Sims3.app folder, dragged it to the Applications folder, and edited the following files :

\Applications\The Sims3.app\Contents\Info.plist

\Applications\The Sims3.app\Contents\Resources\Preferences\config

By double-clicking the app, the Launcher appears. When I click Launch Game, it asks for a CD.

I went to the terminal, navigated to \Applications\The Sims3.app\Contents\MacOS and ran .\cider

A window appeared with the green plumbob. Then the screen went blank, and I got roughly 5 seconds of the loading game music. Then nothing. I had to reset the computer because, being a n00b, I didn't/still don't know the keyboard combination to restart.

Now, the drive I have it installed on is actually NTFS, and currently read only. I wasn't expecting TS3 to demand write privs, so perhaps that's the problem.

Anyway, I'll go back to OSX a bit later once I finish chatting to some birds.

Heh, well that's pretty much killed my primary idea.

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.

OR

1. Launch Notepad
2. Open TS3.exe
3. Hit F3 and search for Securom

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?

Yeah, but sometimes folders get converted into files by rogue filesystem doctors and I was unsure of your level of commandline-fu. Anyway, nice one. Still, it would be nice to have a windows-only solution for future reference.

I've had this before, my solution was similar - I dropped into actual DOS and nuked it that way. My gentoo install was borked at the time.   :p

Horrible thing. Don't trust it.


Try doing it via DOS/CMD.

CD C:\Program Files .... etc.
REN borked_folder die
RMDIR /S   die

If that fails, CD die, rinse and repeat.

There'll be a file in there somewhere with a dodgy character in the filename probably.

If deleting a file still fails, try ECHO FUCKING>die

Oh, and check the permissions if you're on an NTFS partition.

You'd be done for child abuse for doing that in the UK now, and probably end up as a permanent entry in a List somewhere. Those were the good ol' days.

I sympathize. I teach ESL in Indonesia, and it is an unfortunate fact that many, if not most, of the teachers here aren't overly concerned with learning what the students' needs are, beyond what they glean in-class -- especially in a Korean school, where the grades can be completely arbitrary, and are quite frequently fixed to reach class average goals set by the Korean Department of Education.

However, not all the blame can be shouldered by the teachers - timing is an issue. I currently work in a Korean school's native speaker department, whose focus is iBT TOEFL. We are currently at the beginning of the end-of-semester testing period. Usually, we have one week to test speaking and writing with an extra 3 days to finish grading. THIS year, the Koreans decided to add another, unrelated, integrated (1 unqualified Korean teacher, 1 native speaker) iBT class which resulted in an additional week of testing. So that's 2x speaking and 2x writing to grade, in 3 days, for roughly 150 students per grade, per teacher.

The temptation is understandable.

Idiocracy. A disturbingly prophetic movie disguised as a lame comedy.


I don't know about the states, but that phrase is being bandied about more and more in the UK, and gaining a foothold in Asia. "Our system of education is borked, so we're going to make the tests easier to make it seem the kids are brighter."

Try renaming them both, then merge the contents.

Holy Grail, perchance? No matter. On a related note, here's an excessively detailed article on Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow.

I do believe this has been the most entertaining thread I have ever read. Now, before I go LURK MOAR, I'd like to point a vaguely trembling finger in the direction of the registration page.

The last time I checked, Assyria no longer existed as a nation, and therefore has no business having a capital city. Either the wrong answer is correct, or the grammar is wrong.