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Chex Quest => Chex Quest and Related Topics => Topic started by: Vulture on October 09, 2009, 05:37:14 PM

Title: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Vulture on October 09, 2009, 05:37:14 PM
Well, ive been looking for weeks for a version of chex quest (and maybe the sequels too) that work on a mac that are free to download. ive not found any. i found this forum, and it looks to be filled with people who would be knowledgeable on the subject.

any idea how to run chex quest on a mac, where to download it with its sequels, and all that? i really do miss it, ive not played it in years.

if it helps, i have the original chex quest cd, but its for windows.
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Replica on October 09, 2009, 06:19:55 PM
Alright, I'm not sure how well this works, but you can try this. http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19321&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Simply place Chex.wad in the folder you installed ZDoom to. (Chex.wad is in the CQ directory.)

Welcome to the forums!
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Atariangamer on October 09, 2009, 08:06:08 PM
On old mac, the CD had a WAD that you put in the dir of Mac Doom...but yeah, if you have a new one, that is the way to go.
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Vulture on October 09, 2009, 10:37:31 PM
Replica, the download in the link you provided doesn't work, are there any other places to download it?
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Replica on October 09, 2009, 11:19:04 PM
I'm not sure. :-\ While I'm looking, you should take a look at this. http://zdoom.org/wiki/Compile_ZDoom_on_Mac_OS_X

Edit = Try this. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/220832/zdoomosx_0.4a.dmg
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Vulture on October 10, 2009, 12:04:34 AM
ok thanks, i got it to download, and i put the doom.wad file that came from the chex quest cd where the readme file that came with zdoom said to put it, but i try to run it and it instantly crashes... i have the system requirements too, so... what did i do wrong?
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Replica on October 10, 2009, 12:31:37 AM
I'm not sure exactly. (I have vista.) I suggest you make an account on ZDoom's forum and ask about it. (Make  sure you make a new topic because you'd bump that one.)
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Vulture on October 10, 2009, 01:08:56 AM
do i need a separate launcher file for it?

that zip file came with 2 files - Zdoom OS X, and a readme file... do i need anything else?
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Atariangamer on October 10, 2009, 01:38:10 AM
actually, take the chex.wad from the windows part of the CD, and place that in the right directory. That should work, unless this is an old build. Chex support has been there since late last year/early this year.
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Vulture on October 10, 2009, 04:00:43 AM
that's what i did, it didn't work. any idea where to get a newer version of it?
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Batmanifestdestiny on October 10, 2009, 01:43:36 PM
Well, you could try installing Wine for Mac or some other program like it(such as Darwin), so you can run Windows programs, and then download cq3.
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Vulture on October 11, 2009, 01:32:02 AM
i was on the wine site and i couldn't find the mac version of it... maybe im just not seeing it?
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Atariangamer on October 11, 2009, 10:56:14 AM
Here's something (http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX)

Also, this seems to tell you how to install it. (http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/)

And this is Darwine (http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwine/), seems to be a formal port of it.
Title: Re: Been looking for weeks...
Post by: Batmanifestdestiny on October 11, 2009, 01:55:42 PM
oops, yeah, I misspelled Darwine. >.>