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DouglasCarroll

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Hi everyone,

This isn't necessarily Power PC specific info, but I've always found this forum to be very knowledgable and the people nicer that other forums here so I was hoping for some help with a generic Mac issue.

How in the world do you network two laptop macs for a multiplayer game? I've been trying to network my 2012 MacBook pro running Mojave to my Son's 2008 Aluminum MacBook running High Sierra to try and play "Age of Mythology" multiplayer and we can NEVER see each other. I've tried plugging ethernet cables between the two systems, using airport, using Game Ranger...nothing works. It's like the two systems are not aware that the other is connected.

Can someone smart here please give me a run down, step by step how to get systems to see each other for games, or point me to a good tutorial?

Sorry for the dumb question, but I guess I'm just too stupid to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it!!

:)
 
Can they see each other to browse files? Also how are you running Age of Mythology? As far as I was aware the Mac version didn't make the jump to Intel and if it's under Wine or crossover that could be the problem.
 
Hi!

Age of Mythology was ported by MacSoft and is Universal Binary, runs on every Mac I've ever tried to play it on from 10.4 PPC all the way up to my MacBook Pro Intel running Mojave. It's definitely NOT a wine or crossover port.

I'll try the crossover cable, although I thought that modern macs didn't need crossover cables and were smart enough to work without one?

Thanks for the replies!
 
Hrm... no crossover to direct connect would be news to me. I'd like to try that when I have time.

Reference for the game: https://web.archive.org/web/2007081...om/products/age_of_myth/macsoft-aom-page.html

Reference to direct connect: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchlp1413/mac "Connect a standard Ethernet cable from the Ethernet port on one computer to the Ethernet port on the other. You don’t need to use an Ethernet crossover cable." Wow, so it is true... I wonder if this applies to all Macs, or only recently...
 
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I figured out the problem today finally. Turns out to be the built in firewall. If I disable it the game works perfectly in multiplayer. If it’s enabled and full screen, the dialog to allow incoming connections is hidden, and inaccessible, from the game. If I go to a windowed mode I can get to the dialog to allow incoming connections, but then can’t get from there back to full screen. Allow incoming connections is NOT saved between games, even though it‘s enabled in the network firewall preferences (Weird).

Long story short, before beginning a game I simply disable the firewall on both macs and everything works.

👍
 
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