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American Mcgee's alice demo not working

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marmaladeboy

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Apr 5, 2008
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Hi,
I just bought this MB (2.4) Hadn't configured a thing.
I downloaded American Mcgee's alice demo from Macgamefiles.net
When I unpack it I clicked at the icon and This messeges came up.
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I don't know what to do...
Please help!
 
That is an old game that runs on the older power pc architecture. The new intel macs are not compatible with the game or at least the demo hence your game is failing to launch.
 
Even though this doesn't help your problem... This game is AMAZING. Alot of fun hours out of this one!
 
Whimsy said:
Even though this doesn't help your problem... This game is AMAZING. Alot of fun hours out of this one!
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That is just cruel :p

In any case, I believe that game is for Classic (OS9) only. Leopard doesn't come with Classic support. I don't remember if Tiger did. Panther and before did for sure though. I'm not sure if there's a way to get Classic support for Leopard.
 
Actually, you can Run Alice on OS X. I believe it was on the the very first mac games to support OS X. That said, it sounds like MacRumoreUser is correct. :(
 
WONDERFUL game!
Well, until it became maddeningly difficult. That said, the mood set between the music, environment, story and such was/is simply amazing.

Someone should redo it for Intel, along with perhaps a Wizard of Oz version. :)
 
MacRumorUser said:
That is an old game that runs on the older power pc architecture. The new intel macs are not compatible with the game or at least the demo hence your game is failing to launch.
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Actually, this problem is not intel/PPC related--I got the same error when I installed the demo on my powerbook. For whatever reason they never fixed this problem.

The good news is that the full version will run great: the latest Alice patch is a universal binary.
 
Fogtripper said:
WONDERFUL game!
Well, until it became maddeningly difficult. That said, the mood set between the music, environment, story and such was/is simply amazing.

Someone should redo it for Intel, along with perhaps a Wizard of Oz version. :)
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Classic vaporware. There was a picture in Wired a few years back of one of the flying monkeys from "American McGee's Dorothy", and it looked awesome. Don't know what ever happened to that game. "Alice", you ought to be able to find a copy cheap these days, and it would be worth picking up. (I'm sure that gogamer.com has it cheap). Some of the boss battles are overly difficult, but overall it's a very cool game. It's OS X native. It would be running in Rosetta, but it's old enough that it should run well. Classic compatibility, by the way, it was there in Tiger, it was the Intel Macs which killed Classic. There's already one compatibility layer to run Rosetta, and if you had to do Classic on top of that, you'd be getting 68K-type performance.
 
Better yet. But it might not be the oldest: I have a UB version of Myth II, and there might be some versions of Doom and Quake out there (Alice is based on the Quake III engine).
 
Great game. I forgot about the UB--I'll have to reinstall and play it again! I guess I can crank the detail to absurd levels now...
 
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