Is HaloMD dead with macOS 10.15 (Catalina)?
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Is HaloMD dead with macOS 10.15 (Catalina)?
Now that macOS Catalina is killing off 32-bit apps, will haloMD survive or is this the end of the line?
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From what nil has said (he's the creator of HaloMD) is that yes it will be the end of the line for HaloMD. It's a 32bit app and Apple hates those so it won't work in Catalina Will be the end of the line for most unless you don't upgrade to Catalina. RIP HaloMD 2012-2019
Re: Is HaloMD dead with macOS 10.15 (Catalina)?
The answer is NO....... Catalina has not killed HaloMD and I can prove it.
I am now playing HaloMD on my new iMac running Catalina. Yes, you heard that right. However, I am not using Catalina to run it, I'm using Mohave.
You see, I have both Catalina and Mohave installed on my Mac. I partitioned part of my SSD hard drive and installed Mohave on that drive from a flash/thumb drive with a Mohave installer on it. I found some instructions on how to make a startup drive out of your flash drive. Not difficult at all. Takes minutes. I then rebooted from that flash drive and simply installed Mohave onto the 2cd partition I created on my SSD hard drive. I did run into some problems here and it took quite a while for me to figure it out. Seems my bluetooth mouse would not work with the installer, so I found an old keyboard and wired mouse I had in a drawer and hooked it up. Voila! It installed flawlessly and so far is working great. When I want to play HaloMD, I simply switch my startup disk in Catalina system prefs and reboot from my "Mohave" drive. A bit of a hassle, but worth it to keep playing HaloMD. Mohave is the last Mac OS that will run HaloMD, but you could install earlier versions as well I guess.
I'm no expert and perhaps thats the reason it took me so long to figure this out (I was absent for over 6 months....) Hope this helps anyone out there that wants to upgrade their Mac to the latest OS.......but ALSO wants to keep playing HaloMD.
I am now playing HaloMD on my new iMac running Catalina. Yes, you heard that right. However, I am not using Catalina to run it, I'm using Mohave.
You see, I have both Catalina and Mohave installed on my Mac. I partitioned part of my SSD hard drive and installed Mohave on that drive from a flash/thumb drive with a Mohave installer on it. I found some instructions on how to make a startup drive out of your flash drive. Not difficult at all. Takes minutes. I then rebooted from that flash drive and simply installed Mohave onto the 2cd partition I created on my SSD hard drive. I did run into some problems here and it took quite a while for me to figure it out. Seems my bluetooth mouse would not work with the installer, so I found an old keyboard and wired mouse I had in a drawer and hooked it up. Voila! It installed flawlessly and so far is working great. When I want to play HaloMD, I simply switch my startup disk in Catalina system prefs and reboot from my "Mohave" drive. A bit of a hassle, but worth it to keep playing HaloMD. Mohave is the last Mac OS that will run HaloMD, but you could install earlier versions as well I guess.
I'm no expert and perhaps thats the reason it took me so long to figure this out (I was absent for over 6 months....) Hope this helps anyone out there that wants to upgrade their Mac to the latest OS.......but ALSO wants to keep playing HaloMD.
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Re: Is HaloMD dead with macOS 10.15 (Catalina)?
Yes you can install older versions of macOS or Windows on Intel Macs but the new Macs coming out are ARM-based (M1) which makes it basically impossible to run 32bit Intel apps like Halo for Mac.Jumbo wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:28 pm The answer is NO....... Catalina has not killed HaloMD and I can prove it.
I am now playing HaloMD on my new iMac running Catalina. Yes, you heard that right. However, I am not using Catalina to run it, I'm using Mohave.
You see, I have both Catalina and Mohave installed on my Mac. I partitioned part of my SSD hard drive and installed Mohave on that drive from a flash/thumb drive with a Mohave installer on it. I found some instructions on how to make a startup drive out of your flash drive. Not difficult at all. Takes minutes. I then rebooted from that flash drive and simply installed Mohave onto the 2cd partition I created on my SSD hard drive. I did run into some problems here and it took quite a while for me to figure it out. Seems my bluetooth mouse would not work with the installer, so I found an old keyboard and wired mouse I had in a drawer and hooked it up. Voila! It installed flawlessly and so far is working great. When I want to play HaloMD, I simply switch my startup disk in Catalina system prefs and reboot from my "Mohave" drive. A bit of a hassle, but worth it to keep playing HaloMD. Mohave is the last Mac OS that will run HaloMD, but you could install earlier versions as well I guess.
I'm no expert and perhaps thats the reason it took me so long to figure this out (I was absent for over 6 months....) Hope this helps anyone out there that wants to upgrade their Mac to the latest OS.......but ALSO wants to keep playing HaloMD.
These days I just use my cheap Windows laptop to play HaloMD if there are ever people playing. I started playing more Master Chief Collection since its included with Game Pass.
The MD community sure was a great one!
Re: Is HaloMD dead with macOS 10.15 (Catalina)?
HaloMD won't run on Macs with 64-bit OS, but Halo CE (Custom Edition) does! Thanks to CrossOver and works quite well.
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