Aleph One -- Marathon for Mac OS X

One of the last things Bungie did before Microsoft bought them (and their flagship game, Halo), was to release the Marathon code into the open source arena. Until not all that long ago, in order to play Marathon 2 or Infinity, you had to run it on a Mac OS 9 machine, or in Classic (or, shudder, on a Windows machine).

Enter Aleph One, the end result of some programmers having ported the game(s) to run natively under Mac OS X. They've included also the ability to connect to an Internet game server so you can play against other Marathon addicts around the world.

It's like it's 1998 all over again. I'm going to have fun with this over the long weekend. Who needs World of Warcraft when you've got Marathon Infinity...

Update: This is a better link for a download that includes the necessary game files as well as the carbonized application. The previous link was for just the application by itself.

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Damien Barrett

Chickenman's got it but his URL got munged. Try this:

http://source.bungie.org/get/

And click on the big Apple. This download includes all the game files as well. And once you've downloaded it, click on the game app rather than the alias provided. Pop some Bobs!

December 30 2005 at 10:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

the chicken man

try this:
http://source.bungie.org/get/

make sure your copy of expander is 8 or higher.

December 30 2005 at 2:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Damien Barrett

It worked for me, but I you have to copy the game files from your Marathon CD(s) before it'll work. This is only the application itself that is carbonized for Mac OS X. But once you've done this, it does definitely work...I've got it running without any major issues.

December 30 2005 at 1:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jasfoto

I just downloaded it....got all excited and BUMMER! It doesn't work. Someone dropped the ball I think.

December 29 2005 at 11:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

robox

i got the same thing.

December 29 2005 at 9:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Schmeid

Hey, maybe I'm just stupid or something, but I can't get it to work.
It says I need Map, Shapes, Images, and Sounds correctly installed.
I've tried the ones from the additional download. Even unstuffed the 2 that would.
Nothing.
It says something about it in the Troubleshooting file, but I don't understand what.

Any help?
Thanks.

December 29 2005 at 9:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply