Mac Help - Basic

[[Mac]Rozako]

After only having demo versions to play, I finally got an original Descent II disc. I'm not a power user. I can't program and I don't know how to hack, and I love this game. Now, I'm still stuck playing D2X Demo which won't go past level 4. I use a 1.25 GHz iMac running OS 10.3.9 and the Descent II that I loaded from the disc won't play even with the disc still in the drive - Classic warning is I don't have Foriegn File Access installed at classic startup and the game won't play. Please Help!

Well. I fiddled around and I'm not sure if I'm on my way or worse off. I re-installed everything according to a post on versiontracker for D2XL. It starts up and there are more options in the set up, although they don't all accept customizing, such as adding keyboard commands, but when I start a game, it almost immediately freezes with some sort of polygon error message.
Somebody--Help Me!

[Peter]

Yeah, don't use the original Descent II program to play Descent 2. Use the d2x-xl program that you downloaded
This is what the directory thing should look like when you are done:

/Descent II/d2x-xl (the new application)
/Descent II/Descent II (the old application, don't use)
/Descent II/d2x.ini
/Descent II/Read Me - Descent II
/Descent II/Register with MacPlay
/Descent II/Data/
/Descent II/Data/robots.mvl
/Descent II/Data/secret.sgb
/Descent II/Data/water.pig
/Descent II/Data/alien1.pig
/Descent II/Data/alien2.pig
/Descent II/Data/groupa.pig
/Descent II/Data/hoard.ham
/Descent II/Data/ice.pig
/Descent II/Data/intro.mvl
/Descent II/Data/inventory.bmp
/Descent II/Data/other.mvl
/Descent II/Data/D2CHAOS.HOG
/Descent II/Data/D2CHAOS.MN2
/Descent II/Data/d2x-xl.hog
/Descent II/Data/d2x.log
/Descent II/Data/d2xtracker.pl
/Descent II/Data/default.plr
/Descent II/Data/descent.cfg
/Descent II/Data/DESCENT.HI
/Descent II/Data/descent.hog
/Descent II/Data/descent.pig
/Descent II/Data/descent.tex.eng
/Descent II/Data/descent.tex.ger
/Descent II/Data/DESCENT2.HAM
/Descent II/Data/DESCENT2.HOG
/Descent II/Data/DESCENT2.S11
/Descent II/Data/DESCENT2.S22
/Descent II/Data/fire.pig
/Descent II/Data/CHAOS.HOG
/Descent II/Data/CHAOS.MSN
/Descent II/Data/D2-2PLYR.HOG
/Descent II/Data/D2-2PLYR.MN2
Macintosh HD/Library/Frameworks/SDL.framework/

[[Mac]Rozako]

The directory contents you sent was very helpful. I have almost everything and a few items needed to be moved into the Data folder from elsewhere. Following are the items I am missing, and I did search my whole drive with no luck.
/Descent II/Data/secret.sgb
/Descent II/Data/hoard.ham
/Descent II/Data/inventory.bmp
/Descent II/Data/descent.pig
/Descent II/Data/CHAOS.MSN
I tried to run it again even though the above 5 files are missing and the error message I get as soon as the game starts is Invalid Polygon Model.
How can I obtain those missing files? Is there somewhere I can download them or can you, or anyone, send them to me?
Thanks
PS I am a Mac user, I am trying to correct my user name to [Mac]Rozako

[[Mac]Rozako]

I am still missing the following files and the error message is still at the very beginning of the game says \"invalid polygon'
/Descent II/Data/secret.sgb
/Descent II/Data/hoard.ham
/Descent II/Data/inventory.bmp
/Descent II/Data/descent.pig
/Descent II/Data/CHAOS.MSN

and now I'm wondering if I have a system compatability issue. The current versions of D2X-XL list OS 10.4 and Universal Binary as requirements. That's not me. I have an iMac which running 10.3.9 and I don't have intel inside.
Where can I get the above files, and even then, will I be able to play on my machine, or would I first have to upgrade to OS 10.4?

[ccb056]

whats a mac?

[Peter]

The descent.pig, chaos.msn is for playing Descent 1 missions. The hoard.ham is for a multiplayer gametype and not needed. I have no idea what the secret.sgb is. The inventory.bmp was needed for a previous version but I guess you don't need it anymore as it is no longer in the Mac OS X download.

It says it is a Universal Binary because that means that it is universal to PowerPC and Intel. So you can run it. As for running on 10.4 only, I do not know. I advise upgrading to 10.4 anyway. Maybe Diedel can help or whoever is doing the porting.

And the reason I have a [MAC] in front of my name is because I am part of the Apple Corps clan which [MAC] is their label. I just so happen to create my username with the [MAC] title whenever ago I joined this forum.

[[Mac]Rozako]

I've been putting off going to 10.4 but if that's what I need to do so I can play, I guess I have to take the leap. I'm not a power user and even letting the archive and install do its thing makes me nervous. Long live Super Duper.
Thanks for your help again.
And where's that guy been hiding?

[Peter]

And where's that guy been hiding?

No idea.

But you don't need to archive. There is an upgrade option.