a mac program installation question?

Question

i downloaded a game for mac, it was a torrent file. it has come with the game, a crack, and an expansion pack. i don't know how to install the game using the crack. i can't even install the game, none of the files in the game are executable, for some reason. what do i need to do?

if you need more info i'll add it in

thanks!

Answer 1

this is illegal, and cracks usually require you to do some H4X1N9 in order to beat the system.

woohoo, copyright infringement!

Answer 2

I can't really help without knowing the file format that the game is in. If it's not a Mac executable you'll have a problem. If you can post a list of all the files in the torrent I could probably help a lot better.

Answer 3

Hi Mark B,

I'm not familiar with torrent files or how that works.

Normally you can simply double-click on the downloaded files. If it's archived, you double-click on the file icon to mount as a disk image (DMG) file (or it might even be downloaded as an un-archived disk image file). Double-click on that and you'll get a window with an installation icon. Double-click on that and it will install the program for you. Or, the window might just give you the game file itself, and you simply drag that into your Applications folder, or where ever you keep your games at.

I'm not sure about cracks, but expansion packs will sometimes need to be manually mouse drug into specific files in the game. They should normally have text files that tell you what needs to be done or what files need to go where.

You might need to right-click (or press the ctrl key and mouse click) on the game icon to get access to the extended menu and select the Show Packet Contents menu command to get those unseen file folders that you'll need to drag into. I hope that this helps.

--Rick