Mozilla firefox. By far the easiest place to get the game is. To buy the games, visit. SMAC Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (original game only) became available for download DRM-free on GOG.com in June 2011, and starting in December 2012, the bundle also included SMAX Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (Cross = X) (the game's only expansion, ). Users who had purchased the solo game previously through GOG.com were entitled to the expansion for free. This version of the game is updated to the latest official patch, and might include some mysterious compatibility updates by GOG for modern windows. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Windows installation This version has been tested under Windows XP, Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows 8. • Purchase game through the link above. If you didn't have a GOG account before, it will be created. • Log-in with your GOG account and navigate to the 'My Games' section. SMAC (among other free goodies!) should be there. Click on the game cover. • Download the windows installer (503 MB file) (as of, the filename and version is setup_sid_meiers_alpha_centauri_2.0.2.23.exe). • Run the file, accept the EULA, and follow the instructions in the installer. • Run either 'Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri' or 'Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire' recently created links to play SMAC (original game) or SMAX (expansion) • Now go get the unofficial patches. Ring app for mac 10.10.5. Mac installation of Windows Patches (GOG) • Go to the place you installed the game (probably in your Applications Folder, it's called 'Alpha Centauri Alien Crossfire.app' or just 'Alpha Centauri.app' if you don't have the expansion - if you can't find it, push CMD + Spacebar to open spotlight and search for it). If you would like to keep a vanilla version of the game, copy the 'Alpha Centauri Alien Crossfire.app' to another location and rename it. You can copy it back to your applications folder after it is renamed. • Right click on the application you wish to mod and say 'Show Package Contents.' • There will be an alias for 'drive_c' - double click it. • From here, just go into the 'GOG Games' folder and you will find the 'Alpha Centauri' directory. • Install as you would on windows! ![]() Aug 16, 2013 - Download WINE for Darwin and Mac OS X for free. Tried it just for fun, ran a complicated commercial software installer and to my biggest. 2 Mac installation of Windows Patches. WINE/Linux installation. It's safe to say that is the most simple way of installing most of window's software in Ubuntu. (in case you don't know, you just need to copy the relevant files into the 'Alpha Centauri' directory to install) WINE/Linux installation The GOG installer and patch installers work fine in recent versions of WINE and give a better result than the old Loki version of the game. You may need to install sox. • Have a recent version of wine (tested on wine 3) • Run the GOG SMAC installer with wine • Fix crackling audio by running a script (below) • Fix poor font rendering (partially) and create a script to start the game (below) • Install any other patches with wine (recommended:, ) Fix crackling audio. Save this as fix-crackles.sh and point it at SMAC's fx directory: #!/bin/sh # Use as `fix-crackles.sh fx` # # Pads the end of all audio files and renormalises them with dither to work around a bug in SMAC that apparently only WINE notices. # # Sources: # # DIR0='$1'; DIR1='$DIR0.org'; DIR2='$DIR0.mod'; # If the new directory does not exist rename the existing one if [! -d '$DIR1' ] then mv -v '$DIR0' '$DIR1' fi # If the modded directory does not exist create it, otherwise delete its contents if [! -d '$DIR2' ] then mkdir '$DIR2' else rm -v '$DIR2'/* fi # Save the modded originals in the mod folder for FILES in $DIR1/*.wav do FILE='`echo $FILES|rev|cut -d '/' -f 1|rev`' sox '$DIR1/$FILE' --norm=-1 '$DIR2/$FILE' pad 0.1 2.4 rate -v 22050 dither done # Copy over any unmodified file cp -nv '$DIR1'/* '$DIR2' # Symlink the mod folder to appear as the original folder if [! -L '$DIR0' ] then ln -sv '$DIR2' '$DIR0' fi Fix font rendering Put this in ~/bin/smac or wherever and chmod +x: #!/bin/bash # Windows programs expect the current directory to be their own cd ~/.wine/drive_c/GOG Games/Sid Meier 's Alpha Centauri/ # More modern freetype interpreters do not handle ancient MS webfonts well. FREETYPE_PROPERTIES='truetype:interpreter-version=35' wine terran.exe Change terran.exe to terranx.exe for ~/bin/smax. Ubuntu Linux installation with PlayOnLinux PlayOnLinux is a Wine (Windows compatibility layer for Linux) frontend which intends to simplify and provide some default configuration for windows software running under modern linux distributions.
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