Find the exec file named "War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" and select choose. You will find that under the Matrix Games folder and the one folder underneath that. On the coinfiguration tab, click bworse to fine the exe for the game itself, not autorun.exe. For me, I am using -w -deepColor -dd_def -skipVideo -dd_sw -px2048 -py1152 and in order to set those, you have to right click again on the Mac app and select "Show Package Contents" in the finder. So, now the game is installed! The last remaining step is needed if you like to set some game running options and flags.It says to click cancel to install it on reboot, so, do so. The program will update and say the update program itself could not be re-updated and will update the next time it is run, I suppose that's normal. While the update is running, you should close the main menu you ran the update from as it will be busy otherwise and not able to update. This will bring up the main menu, where you should almost certainly update the program just as you likely did on Windows. It will ask you to allow it to be run, click Open. If it says you cannot, instead, right click on it and select open. Likely, you will find out you can't do that depending on your security settings. Now, navigate back to the Mac App you downloaded and double click it to run it.Now it goes back to the Wineskin program, go ahead and click quit for now. It correctly picks autorun.exe, click OK. This is the Windows program that will run when you run the mac app. Once it is installed, it will ask you to select the executable.Follow the normal procedure and prompts for installing the game as you would on Windows. Click "Choose Setup Executable", and, select the installer from your game disk or downloaded copy. You will need your official War in the Pacific AE installer for this step, as well as your serial number.You'll see one folder we will use later, and, another applcation named "Wineskin". Navigate to where you placed the app and right click on it, and, select "Show Package Contents".Put this file in a suitable place on your Mac, it could be put into your application folder, or, anywhere else of your choosing. You will end up with a WarInThePacificAE app. In the finder, go to where you downloaded and double click the WarInThePacificAE.zip file which will extract the contents. Download the Wineskin wrapper I have created for convenience.This works for me on Mac Yosemite 10.10.5. Let's go through the process of installing the game War in the Pacific Admirals Edition. This allows you to immediately start installing the game! I have posted the relevant details on what wineskin options are needed on winehq, however, for convenience, I have created a blank Wineskin wrapper for the game you can download. This method of running the game allows your game to run in a normal Mac window like any other Mac program, and, use less resources! Without the overhead, hassle, and, expense of running Windows. Wine does not! Also, it's much more convenient than using a dual boot system since when you are booted into Windows, you of course can't use Mac programs. Those require a lot of effort to install and setup Windows and require owning a Windows license. This is very different from programs such as Parallels, Virtualbox, and others. Wineskin and Wine allow a Mac user to run Windows programs. Installing WITP AE on Mac OSX via Wineskin / Wine
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