Heya,

I've finally decided to get off my (metaphorical) ass and sort out dual booting so I can finally get back to creating new mansions, it's a hell of a lot more work than I originally thought it would take as apparently my normal OS X Snow Leopard Install disk won't work with Parallels only OSX Server Snow Leopard will... seriously?!?! But yeah, I just ordered a copy of Server from eBay and should hopefully be here by next week. So if all goes well I can finally get back to the mansion I started to build... THREE YEARS A GO!!!!! ...that's if I can find it of course :P

Leon

I had to get a new computer late last year and then found out I could no longer boot into Snow Leopard because the newer Macs can't run it. Totally bummed.
>:( :'(

Oh Semi-Native, you should have bought an old one instead or you can buy one now! :P

For now I am using my mom's desktop as it doesn't support lion, but I shall tell everyone how my dual boot plan works out when I get the Server Snow Leopard Disk :)

It can, but it needs the later updates. 10.6.7 I think or 10.6.8. The problem is that you can't install from a DVD or original installation file since they're 10.6

I used CCC (http://www.bombich.com) to make a disk image of a working 10.6.8 system that I found on an older mac and installed that on a partition on my new one. Restarted with option pressed and there it was, works like a dream :)

Good to know Olle. Thanks for posting that!

Olle the Greatest wrote on 23.04.2014 at 12:23:03:

It can, but it needs the later updates. 10.6.7 I think or 10.6.8. The problem is that you can't install from a DVD or original installation file since they're 10.6 I used CCC (http://www.bombich.com) to make a disk image of a working 10.6.8 system that I found on an older mac and installed that on a partition on my new one. Restarted with option pressed and there it was, works like a dream :)

With the MacBook Pros with Retina (from the early 2013 models) it doesn't have the drivers to run previous versions so you need to run it using a VM which is only compatible with OSX Server

Well, I finally got it to work.

I got the Snow Leopard Server and created a VM using Parallels (I gots a trial lol) I had a problem with the sound but was able to quickly sort that out with thanks to the parallels support resources (http://kb.parallels.com/120937) and now everything works pretty great, with the odd sound glitches, the main menu music keeps skipping but everything else seems to work perfectly

http://i.imgur.com/dmpBexHl.png

Great Leon, it will be fun to try a new mansion!!!

That's great Leon.

Finally getting some progress on my new new mansion, got 24 rooms set up but still got plenty more to go

There are three things which I will release info about

1 - There is a graveyard/tomb with a character reference as well as being like a mini-mansion of itself
2 - The main mansion takes place in a very tall tower
3 - There will be VERY awesome non-MM music :D

Phew, been on a roll today.

FYI my last room count was wrong as I forgot to delete the sample rooms so I actually had 13 rooms set up, but today, I brought that to a hefty 43 rooms already :D

I've pretty much finally finished building the mini-intro 'mansion' (which consists of 30 rooms) it just needs a little spit and shine to make it look fully presentable

Will create a new topic releasing the name and theme as well as other info once I have gotten more rooms done. Probably will have this up sometime next week :)

For now, enjoy this screenshot

http://i.imgur.com/2QKcD9Jl.png

Leon

PS - I will be asking for beta-testers at some point so if you are interested then feel free to let me know. Also, if you are any good at decorating/polishing up mansions, please let me know, I'm not the best when it comes to keeping levels tidy haha (you'll get full credit)

Semi-Native wrote on 22.04.2014 at 18:03:01:

I had to get a new computer late last year and then found out I could no longer boot into Snow Leopard because the newer Macs can't run it. Totally bummed. >:( :'(

How about trying my solution, which I posted in another thread some time ago :)

brell, I just tried to find that topic and couldn't. Do you remember where you posted it?

Thanks.

Never mind, I found it:

http://www.actionsoft.com/forums/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1353246978

Semi-Native wrote on 05.05.2014 at 18:56:30:

Never mind, I found it: http://www.actionsoft.com/forums/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1353246978

Please be aware that we are referring to the solutiin in reply #5, NOT the link in the top post.