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Hello!

I used to play the game when I was little, so I have the CD but I cant use it since I currently have a Mac (I also think the CD didnt work on a windows either when I tried a few years back). Anyway, today I managed to download the game and get it up and runnig. The problem is that nothing saves, I came kind of a long way into the game several times but there´s just nothing there when I restart and try to load.

And yes I´ve clicked save hundreds of times during the gameplay, although nothing seems to happen. I have to hold down Escape in order to ever see the menu... Seems like it doesnt work. Anyone have any idea how to get this to work?

I don't have any experience with Mac computer. It does sound like your game doesn't write the savefiles when you press have, have you made sure you have the rights to do that to the folder (don't know how it works on Mac).

As for the Escape bug, that's a problem with modern computers I believe. You should try to see if you can run the game with the ATX patch or even the CE patch, and that should fix it.

ATX: http://www.trescom.org/patches/
CE: viewtopic.php?p=114129#p114129

Sounds like you are just clicking save and not actually getting to the menu. You need to press the space bar when you click on it. If you wanted to, you could also click escape really fast and that will leave the screen up without holding it. But this takes a few tries.

Oh right, and remember you need to name the save before saving!

Wow thank you guys! I downloaded the ATX-file (I tried a couple of times yesterday but it only said not compatible with a mac). I managed to download something from app store that "un-archived" the file, and it seemed to be working!

I started the game just now, and it said something like "the last time you ran this program it was unstable. Do you want to play it in stable mode now?" And I clicked yes. This time I managed to get to the menu without holding down Escape (when I tried clicking fast like one of you said) but on the other hand I couldnt save because the write-section was closed...

And also there was no sound this time in the game? Really weird. Thanks for the help, this seems pretty hard x) Any more advice please?

Okay wow, now everything works! The sound was simply cause the settings had changed, so I just turned it back on. And the un-able-to-write-to-save was also fixed. Didnt get it that you just had to start writing, thought I had to highlight where it said "save".

So now its all good! Wow, really thank you guys Gonna play this game now, love it!

Good to hear you manage to get it working

wibloo wrote: I started the game just now, and it said something like "the last time you ran this program it was unstable. Do you want to play it in stable mode now?" And I clicked yes.

That's a safeguard, if the game crashes, next time it will ask you if you want to use minimum configuration instead. I usually answer "no" because it changes my settings...

Can you please tell me how did you get the game work on a Mac? I'd like to play it too!

I'm guessing it's a Mac but running Windows...

Vesiapina wrote:Can you please tell me how did you get the game work on a Mac? I'd like to play it too!

I downloaded it from http://shadowofthemac.com/. It came with shitloads of adware but I managed to get rid of all of it in a day so it wasnt that big a deal. I could erase a lot of the adware and the things that change your settings in the internetbrowser by hand, but some of it was hard to get rid of. So I downloaded a Malwarebyte and it fixed the rest.

But if you think its worth it going through all of this trouble so you can play Trespasser later on, do it

And no - its not a windowsrun Mac, just a normal mac. Well, not entirely normal, its old, dented and shuts itself off every 3 minutes if its not boiling hot...

If you want to avoid adware and use open source programs, I can recommend "Wine", which is sort of a translator Windows <-> OS X/BSD/Linux. It runs Trespasser in software mode just fine. For hardware mode you would need the recent Trespasser CE patch.
Info on Wine for OS X: https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX and running Trespasser in Wine: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=27482