Free Realms Legacy - installing on a Mac

Right click Install.command and choose Open. Then click Open again when macOS asks.

That is it. It puts the launcher in your Applications folder, gets it past the download
warning, and offers to set up Wine for the game.


Why right click instead of double click

macOS marks everything downloaded in a browser as quarantined, and will not open a
quarantined app unless it was signed with a paid Apple developer certificate. This one is
not, so macOS refuses it - and the message it shows says the app is damaged, which is
misleading. The app is fine. Install.command clears that flag for you.

Right clicking and choosing Open is what lets the script itself run. Double clicking it
will not work the first time, for the same reason.


If you would rather not run a script

Drag FreeRealmsLegacyLauncher.app to your Applications folder, then open Terminal and run:

    xattr -cr /Applications/FreeRealmsLegacyLauncher.app

The app opens normally after that.


Which Macs this runs on

All of them. The launcher is Intel, and Apple Silicon Macs run it through Rosetta 2. If
your Mac has never run an Intel app, macOS offers to install Rosetta the first time and
takes a few seconds over it. Needs macOS 11 Big Sur or later.


Playing the game

The launcher runs on its own. The game client is a 32-bit Windows program, and macOS
dropped 32-bit support, so it needs Wine built to handle that - Whisky is free and works,
and CrossOver does too. Install.command offers to install Whisky if you have Homebrew.
The launcher also checks when you press Play and says what is missing.
