Running LogiCola on a Mac

You can set up an Apple Macintosh to run Windows LogiCola for free provided that:
  1. Your Mac is a newish one with an Intel processor. To check this, go to the Apple logo on the far left of your Mac toolbar, select About This Mac, and look at the processor description. If it contains the word "Intel," you're fine.
  2. You're logged into an Admin account (if there's only one account on your computer, it's an Admin account) and the account has a password set (to set a password if you have none, go to the Accounts section in System Preferences).
  3. You have an Internet connection, some techie skills (or a techie friend who will help you with these directions), and an hour of time.
To set it up, do these steps:
  1. Install Apple Xcode from your Mac OS X installation DVD.
  2. Install X11 from your Mac OS X installation DVD, using the "Optional Installs.mpkg" file, if X11 isn't already installed. (If you wish to check to see if Xcode and X11 are installed, look in /Library/Receipts for the files X11SDK.pkg and X11User.pkg.)
  3. From the http://www.macports.org/install.php page, download the MacPorts dmg file for your operating system (System 10.6 = Snow Leopard, System 10.5 = Leopard, and System 10.4 = Tiger). Double-click the file you downloaded, and double-click the .pkg file to run the installer.
  4. Open a terminal window (open your Applications folder, then open the subfolder at the bottom called Utilities, then double-click the application called Terminal) and paste this bold command (all on one line!) into the terminal window (and give your password when asked): echo export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:\$PATH$'\n'export MANPATH=/opt/local/man:\$MANPATH | sudo tee -a /etc/profile
      If you ran this command correctly, then terminal should respond with export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH and export MANPATH=/opt/local/man:$MANPATH
  5. In a terminal window, paste this bold command into it (and give your password if asked): sudo port install wine
      If you ran this command correctly, then terminal should spew techie info for about a half hour (and so this is a good time to eat lunch). When it finishes, Wine is all installed, which lets you run most Microsoft Windows programs. If you instead get this error message C compiler cannot create executables then you probably forgot to install Xcode.
  6. To enable sound for LogiCola, open a terminal window and paste this bold command winecfg into it. In the box that pops up, click the tab that's labeled "Applications." In the drop down menu toward the bottom of the page that says "Windows," change the setting to "Windows Vista." Then click "Apply" and "OK."
Then to run Windows LogiCola:
  1. If you already have Windows LogiCola installed on a flash drive, insert the flash drive. Then open up a terminal window, use the cd /volumes/yourflashdrivename command to go to LogiCola's location (here "yourflashdrivename" is the name of your flash drive -- if there's a space in the name then use "\" before the space -- so if the flash drive name is "My homework" then for the command use cd /volumes/My\ homework), and use the ls command to list the files to make sure that you've gone to the place with the LogiCola.exe file. Finally, paste this bold command wine LogiCola.exe into the terminal window. LogiCola should start.
  2. If you want to install LogiCola on your computer or on a flash drive, go to http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/lc and SAVE the LCSetup.exe file to your computer. Then open up a terminal window, use the cd command to go to LCSetup.exe's location, and use the ls command to list the files to make sure that you've gone to the place with the LCSetup.exe file. Finally, paste this bold command wine LCSetup.exe into the terminal window. LCSetup should start; then you can install LogiCola on your flash drive or on your computer.
  3. If LogiCola is installed on your computer, and you want to run it, open a terminal window and paste this bold command cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/LogiCola into it. Use the ls command to list the files to make sure that you've gone to the place with the LogiCola.exe file. Finally, paste this bold command wine LogiCola.exe into the terminal window. LogiCola should start.
  4. What doesn't work in Mac: the help files (under the HELP menu -- these crash the program) and the Web links in the ABOUT box.
View LogiCola Help (or LogiSkor Help), which don't work
within LogiCola (or LogiSkor) using the Wine emulation.

Thanks to David Baumgold (for his excellent Wine-Mac tutorial at http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac, from which most of my instructions are adapted) and to David Marrufo (who told me about Baumgold's tutorial and added the suggestion about how to get sound to work on LogiCola).

Please e-mail me about clarifications, corrections, suggestions, etc.

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