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Hi to all! I have found a version of Giana Sisters for PowerPC Macs on this site http://www.gianas-return.de/ that is compatible with OS X 10.3+, but there is a problem: it crashes as soon as I open it. The error log says I need libSDL installed, but I don't know how to do it. I tried with Tigerbrew without success. Any suggestions, help?

Thank you in advance :)
 
Hi to all! I have found a version of Giana Sisters for PowerPC Macs on this site http://www.gianas-return.de/ that is compatible with OS X 10.3+, but there is a problem: it crashes as soon as I open it. The error log says I need libSDL installed, but I don't know how to do it. I tried with Tigerbrew without success. Any suggestions, help?

Thank you in advance :)

How exactly did you conclude that libSDL is the issue? (Asking because some apps open and immediately crash on my Mac, that's all)

Doom Legacy 1.43 crashed in this case while DL 1.40 works perfectly.
 
After it crashes the system itself ask you if you want to know what error is... I opened this kind of log and it says I need the SDL library installed. Apart from this I also contacted the developer for a help and he said I need the SDL library too.
 
After it crashes the system itself ask you if you want to know what error is... I opened this kind of log and it says I need the SDL library installed. Apart from this I also contacted the developer for a help and he said I need the SDL library too.

Oh, stuff crashes without an error box :/ Ty anyway
 
Have you tried this download from the libsdl site

http://libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15-OSX10.4.dmg

Thanks Lastic! I already tried it and unfortunately it didn't work.

Here's the error log:
Immagine 1.png
 
Do you find these files in /usr/local/lib ?

Maybe your PATH doesn't include
this directory?

I'm away from home without PPC this week so can't help much
thanks for the tip Lastic, I got it working! The error log saiid that I missed the sdl library in the path usr/local/lib which is not accessible normally through the Mac finder. I had to type some commands in terminal to see those folders, and then I right clicked the "giana.app" file and clicked "Show package contents" and then I found the libraries and I copied them in the path. After doing that the game launches, and it loads until the screen in which I can choose the language by clicking on flags.. Doesn't matter which one I click, I have tried all the four languages, but after clicking on a flag it just closes, without a error, it just closes.
I have contacted the developer again to have more help
 
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