Help with first download/Plug-in folder mgmt for Mac.

[skyrock 0]

Help!

I just did my first download. It was called MacAddons. I placed the folders in the plug-in folder and regions folder as they stipulated. There were things like the Brandenburg Gate and other Landmarks in the folder. In opening the plug-in folder and looking at the contents, I was asked to place them in something like a Chinese Converter/Plug-in in my Library folder. I looked in my Library and nothing like that existed. Then I noticed you could toggle between two choices. 1. leave as is (I think) and 2. the Chinese thing. I chose the Chinese thing. I think it worked sometimes and others it duplicated the folder adding another .dat to the name. I trashed the duplicated folders. I was asked to login again after that. I assume that meant to restart my computer which I did. I restarted SC4 RH and looked for the landmarks and could not find them anywhere.

Also, while playing the game I noticed the cursor that would normally highlight the square where the tool was being placed has disappeared, the arrow on civic buildings to help show placement to road has disappeared and a couple of other anomalies(?) in regards to the home, end, up, down rotation keys where the red/blue shape of potential placement for building would change shape/size sometimes not to return.

I did try to use some cheats I discovered earlier: *shadow*,*shvdom*,you don't deserve it, & gol. The gol gave me a disco action of green tiles dancing all around the screen. you don't deserve it did provide all buildings. I am not sure what *shadow*,*shvdom* did, if anything.

What should I do? Am I missing some dependancies? What is the first thing you would recommend a newbie download?

Please remember that I am new to Macs as well as computers/internet so please be step-by-step as much as possible.

Eternally Grateful,
Rodney

p.s. I am so sorry to take you back to CS101.

[kbooms1w 1]

Where did you get this download. Let me know so I can check it out and see if we can get it straightened out

[skyrock 0]

kbooms1w,

Thanks so much for replying. If I remember correctly from my late night (early morning) browsing it was in a thread somewhere. I will try and find it again. I used the search option with 0 results for SC4 MacAddons. The download came as a .sit file. I have moved it all to the trash, however the problems are still with the game. Do you think I should uninstall the game and reinstall? I am not really attached to any of my cities especially now after seeing the possibilities here on this amazing site.

Appreciating the help,

Rodney

Update:

I remembered something and did a little research. I am happy to report that I did not get it here on ST. I got it @ Macgamefiles.com/ add-ons. I did a SimCity 4 for Mac search on Google. That is how I found you guys and there on Page 4 right under you is the info for Macgamefiles. After browsing you guys for a couple of days I went back to that search looking for some cheats. That is when I noticed this Add-on and downloaded it.

It is called: Simcity 4 Mac Landmarks Add-on 1.0
Publisher: Aspyr Media

Any pointers on what to do now? Contact Aspyr?

[kbooms1w 1]

Hold tight, no need to reinstall, just take out the files you installed. I'll download it tonight and see what the deal is....

[skyrock 0]

kbooms1w,

Wow.... I really appreciate you doing that. I eagerly await your response.

I am pretty sure that everything with that download is now in the trash.

In the meantime, here is some more information. I am not sure that you will need any of this but just in case.

I have a 800MHz PowerbookPC (ibook) G3 with 256MB SDRAM.
I am playing a city on a Medium block and it is pretty big and, of course, runs awfully slow. The bigger they get the slower they are.

Res: @52,000
Ind: @25,000
Com: @7500

I do have the SC4 patch and the RH patch installed.

I am afraid it might have been one of those cheats. Here are some others that I tried but were not accepted: fightthepower, howdryami & whereareyoufrom.


Thanks a million!,
Rodney

[kbooms1w 1]

First things first, playing on a G3 with only 256 RAM is a problem, but if it plays and you can stand it, great.

Second, take the folder In Plugins (you can rename this folder if you want) and place it in the following folder path:

Applications/SimCity 4/SimCity 4 Data/Plugins

Place the In Regions folder (you can rename this folder if you want) in the following folder path:

Applications/SimCity 4/SimCity 4 Data/Regions

That's it, stay out of your library folder or anywhere else...

Good luck

[skyrock 0]

hmmm... That's what I did the first time around and then I couldn't find any of the Landmarks in the game and began to notice the bugs. That's when I tried to open one of the contents and the whole Chinese Converter thing happened.

Am I to assume that you downloaded the file and everything worked fine for you and that it is not one of those stupid cheats causing the problems. My whole computer seems to be slowing down somewhat. iSync especially interferes with speed. Anyway, i digress.

Maybe it's all just to much for my little iBook to handle. I am running Tiger, if that makes any difference. However, should I just wait to download the incredible things offered on the STEX until I can save enough to upgrade my computer? Is there anyway to just upgrade the SDRAM to 512 and/or the G3 to G4? I hope so. I have a killer CJ just begging to be made.

Thanks for Everything. Your generosity and patience are much appreciated.

p.s. Kudos to GrandpaAl for the excellent tutorial on Plugins file mgmt.

[kbooms1w 1]

Date: 8/4/2005 3:31:39 PM
Author: skyrock
Maybe it's all just to much for my little iBook to handle. I am running 'Tiger', if that makes any difference. However, should I just wait to download the incredible things offered on the STEX until I can save enough to upgrade my computer? Is there anyway to just upgrade the SDRAM to 512 and/or the G3 to G4? I hope so. I have a killer CJ just begging to be made.


Thanks for Everything. Your generosity and patience are much appreciated.


p.s. Kudos to GrandpaAl for the excellent tutorial on Plugins file mgmt.

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Unfortunately, I think that may be the case. I'm 99% sure that you can't upgrade your processor or video card in a iBook (or Powerbook). More RAM may help, but your processor will still be very slow.

I did download it, already had it, but took my file out and installed that one to test. And I doubt it was the cheats. Wish I had better news.