Launch Wine web site. 2 – Select “macOS” to download installation package for Mac OS 10.8 and higher (Picture No. Select “macOS” 3 – Click the link to. Click the link to.pkg files. 4 – Download installer of Wine Stable (Picture No. Uninstall Magic Online. Press Windows key + R or go to Start - Run (or Search - Run, then Click Run in Windows 8) In the box, type: control appwiz.cpl; Click “OK” This will pull up a list of installed programs. Scroll down to the “M”s and you should see one or more programs that start with “Magic the Gathering. HOWTO: Install MTGO on OSX and Linux using Wine + Docker Figured I would share this since when it comes up while I'm streaming people are almost always surprised to hear MTGO works on Linux / OSX these days (I do the bulk of my streaming from a Linux system).
A NOTE ABOUT MAC OS 10.15 CATALINA:
Apple has decided to force 64 bit operation and is blocking unsigned software in Catalina – so Wine is much more challenging in that version. Hams are recommended to stay with Mojave for this reason. See here if you are ready for the extra work to make Catalina Wine-friendly again.
NEW: As of Wine version 4.19 or newer, Forms and Templates, such as the ICS-213) are now working! This means Winlink Express (RMS Express) is fully functional!
Wine is a program that tricks Windows applications into thinking they are running in a full-blown Windows OS environment. It only loads bare-bones drivers and a Windows-like folder structure into a “Bottle”, so this is NOT a Windows emulator. It runs Windows apps directly in Mac OSX or Linux!
STEP 1: INSTALL HOMEBREW
Run in Terminal app:ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
and press enter/return key.
If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac’s user password to continue. When you type the password, it won’t be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish.
STEP 2: INSTALL WINE
Run this command in Terminal:export WINEARCH=win32
then run this command:brew install wine-stable
STEP 3: Install Winetricks
- Press
Command+Spaceand type Terminal and press enter/return key. - Run this command in Terminal:
brew install winetricks - Run this to add a GUI for Winetricks
STEP 3: Load DotNET 3.5sp1 and Visual Basic into the Bottle
Open a window in Terminal and enter the command:
winetricks
A new window will appear (if it’s blank, click OK). A window with a long list of optional Windows components and common software that can be added to a Bottle. Click on “Install a Windows DLL or component” and then click OK. Scroll down and check the boxes next to “dotnet35sp1″ and ‘vb6run” then click on the “Apply” button at the bottom of the window.
After a download completes, a number of Windows installer screens will appear… always click yes or I agree, etc., to install the software. If it asks for your name, just enter any first name and click OK. When all installations are complete, you will get a message that says “Winetricks Applied Successfully”.
NOTE: If you got an error message, you will need to run Winetricks again and select “Create a new wineprefix”. In the window that pops up, select Architecture: 32 and name the prefix “Ham” or something like that. Then repeat Step 3 again.
STEP 4: INSTALL RMS EXPRESS (and any other Windows software you like)
Download the latest version of Winlink Express (formerly RMS Express) here. Just look for the latest version of Winlink Express and click on it.
Once it downloads, unzip it and do a “Get Info” on the .exe file by Control-Click on the icon (or highlighting the icon and selecting “Get Info” in the File pull-down menu). Change the “Open with:” pull-down to “Wine” and click on the “Change All…” button so all exe files will launch under Wine. Close the Get Info window.
Now double-click the Winlink Express Installer and if all went well the program will function! There are extra steps (below) for COM Port setup if you want rig control or access to a TNC and there are also more components needed if you plan to use VARA on HF. See below.
OPTIONAL STEP A: COM PORT SETUP
IMPORTANT: First try using COM33 for USB Serial cables for TNCs, etc. IF that doesn’t work, then try this option below:
If COM33 doesn’t work, we can create COM1 port for rig control or TNC access. SKIP THE REST OF THIS STEP IF COM33 ALREADY WORKS!
First we need to find out what our USB/Serial controller cable is named. Install the driver for your cable. Plug the cable in and bring up a terminal (Terminal app can be found in Applications/Utilities).
ls /dev
This command lists the contents of the “dev” directory. Scroll up and look for the name of the USB cable. Some common names are:
tty.SLAB_USBtoUART
tty.usbeserial
tty.ftdi_usbserial
cu.usbserial
It WILL start with either tty or cu …so if you can’t find them in the long list, try the command:
ls /dev/cu* or ls /dev/tty*
Highlight the name and copy it (we will paste it in the next step)
This command will make a symlink (aka, an alias or shortcut) for COM1 in the dosdevices folder, which points to the USB device – usually ttyUSB0 on linux, for Mac see below:
Copy the name and paste below and use your user login name and bottle name in the bolded text (replacing the brackets):
ln -s /dev/[pasted name] ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1
Just to be clear, the entire bold part of the line above including the brackets will become the name you copied, and there will be a space between the last letter of the name you paste and “~/.wine/dosdevices/com1” Once you hit the ENTER or RETURN key, that should link the device to the new virtual COM port.
Now add the COM port to the windows registry (this will make it appear in pull-down menus in RMS Express and other Windows programs running in that bottle).
sudo nano ~/.wine/system.reg
After “#arch-win32”, add the following lines (using the arrows keys to place the cursor where you want to copy/paste this) , save and exit.
[HardwareDevicemapSerialcomm] 1131331688
“COM1″=”COM1”
NOTE: If you need more than one COM port for different control cables, just repeat the process with COM2, COM3, etc.
To save these changes, hit the CONTROL and X keys, then tap Y and then tap ENTER.
If all went well, your COM port will work now! Please note that some recent changes to the Wine software MAY force your USB-serial device onto COM33 …so if the above steps didn’t work, look for COM33 in the COM Ports pull-down of your software and try that.
OPTIONAL STEP B: GETTING VARA MODE TO WORK IN WINLINK EXPRESS
For VARA support, download these components:
and place them in /Users/[user name]/Documents/Wine/drive_c/windows/system32 and if any exist, replace them. VARA won’t work without these.
TROUBLESHOOTING: If you are still having problems installing RMS Express or getting VARA to launch within the program, check to make sure you didn’t skip a step in the DotNET and Visual Basic Runtime installations. You need all those components to be working first. Also be sure you are running Wine in a folder named “Wine” in your Documents folder for any of the above instructions to work. THIS IS CASE-SENSITIVE!
If DotNET won’t install or returns any errors at all, you may be better off using the commercial “Crossover Mac” software ($39) See here
I have been wanting to get into MTGO cause I usually can’t make it to FNM, and I thought being on a Mac would stop that, How can I get MTGO on my mac?
Any Information would be helpful.
I asked Marshall to answer this question for the blog. Here’s his response! -Jon
I get this question a lot. Here is the setup I use, it’s pretty easy:
1. Virtualization software
This is different than emulation software, and there are two main products for this: Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion. I use Parallels but have used VMWare in the past and been pleased. You need to purchase this software and install it on your Mac. This will allow you to install and run Windows while running OSX.
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2. Windows
You will need a licensed copy of Windows to install as a virtual machine on your Mac. You can install any Windows OS that will run MTGO, I use Windows 7 as I find it the most stable, with the least maintenance.
After you get Parallels or similar installed, you can install Windows as a virtual machine. Your chosen program will give you instructions and they have really made it very easy to do this. Then just install MTGO on Windows and your are good to go.
Another option if you don’t need to run Windows at the same time as using Boot Camp, which is free and comes preinstalled on your Mac computer. This is called “Dual-booting”, where instead of running Mac OSX and Windows at the same time, you choose which one you want to run when you turn on the computer. You still have to have a licensed copy of Windows to do this.
You can install Windows and MTGO on it and just boot into a Windows machine when you want to play. This is not particularly convenient though as you have to reboot the computer just to play MTGO and you can’t access your Mac apps while you are doing this.
I recommend just shelling out some extra money for Parallels or VMWare Fusion, as they run excellently on both my 11″ Macbook Air and my 27″ iMac.
**MTGO V4 Update 7/23/14**
I had terrible issues with the V4 client shortly after its launch. The client would boot me 4-5 times per draft, forcing me to relog and miss picks.
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Listener Alan wrote in with a fix:
If you have your Parallels Virtual Machine configured in the default manner, the network connection type will be Shared Network, as seen here:
The problem is that it will renew the DHCP Lease every 30 minutes with this setup. This shouldn’t be an issue, but the V4 client of MTGO is touchy about the connection, and will boot you every time it resets.
If you change your “Type” to Default Adapter like this:
The program will renew the lease every 24 hours, eliminating the problem.
If you find yourself with constant disconnect issues, this should fix it (it did for me).
Good luck!
-Marshall