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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Reid Bode said 9:19PM on 12-29-2005
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.
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joe said 9:39PM on 12-29-2005
i got the same thing.
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jasfoto said 11:24PM on 12-29-2005
I just downloaded it....got all excited and BUMMER! It doesn't work. Someone dropped the ball I think.
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Damien Barrett said 1:37AM on 12-30-2005
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.
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the chickenman said 2:26AM on 12-30-2005
try this:
http://source.bungie.org/get/
make sure your copy of expander is 8 or higher.
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Damien Barrett said 10:54AM on 12-30-2005
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!
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