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Winebottler gets stuck installing9/3/2023 ![]() ![]() If you've already closed the WineSkin configuration menu, navigate inside your Gehn Shard application once again and launch the WineSkin app.Copy the UruIcon.icns file from inside the Myst Online app bundle (or any other icon file you wish to use) into your Gehn Shard's app bundle.(Optional) To change the Application icon from the default WineSkin icon: To get to the menu after you've set up Gehn Shard's launcher, you simply need to launch the Wineskin app inside your wrapper (use Show Package Contents to peek inside). If you'd like to customize any options or the program icon, you can do so from the advanced button on the wrapper's Wineskin menu. Relaunch your Gehn wrapper to launch Gehn Shard! When the installer is complete, WineSkin will ask you which executable to run in order to start the game.Run the installer as usual, accepting the default for the installation location, and browse to your existing MOULa installation for the second location prompt (if using the TG/GT wrapper, it will be similar to Myst Online.app/Contents/Resources/Myst Online.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Uru Live).Choose Install Windows Program from the menu, and select the gehn_shard.exe in the prompt.Download the Gehn Installer if you have not already done so.Launch the wrapper, and this first time it will show the Wineskin menu. You should now have a blank wrapper all set, and a Finder window open to its location (by default, it can be found in ~/Applications/Wineskin). Continue, agreeing to prompts to install needed software, until you return to the main menu.Give your new wrapper a name, such as "Gehn Shard".Click the button to Create a New Blank Wrapper.Download and install the selected engine, and continue until you return to the main menu.The newest one should already be selected (I tested with 1.14). Under the engines list, click the to add a new engine.Under the Wrapper Version control, click update and follow through with that until you return to the main menu. ![]() Download WineSkin, install it (wherever you prefer, I placed it in my Applications folder) and run it.Hopefully we'll be able to avoid this step in the future, once (someday) Cyan grants a license to distribute them. Note: These steps unfortunately require you to have an existing, working, and up-to-date copy of Myst Online via whichever method you choose, as we will need the current data files. I'll probably put this up as a wiki page and polish it a bit, as this is being written in a bit of a hurry. If you have any improvements or suggestions, please feel free to reply. Hopefully this will help others to play on the Gehn Shard from their Macs. I've done some trials in getting this to work with both the Transgaming/GameTap wrapper and WineBottler and ran into various issues, finally finding WineSkin to be quite simple in comparison.
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