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MacOS Tahoe 26

A topic by tumblewed created Aug 20, 2025 Views: 186 Replies: 9
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Unable to run the game on MacOS Tahoe 26; I've gotten to the 'Open Anyway' window, but even after that (and using admin permissions) it says that the application can't be opened. Not sure all what might be happening or if this is an affect of the beta update.

Also might I say, WHAT BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION!! The game page is so well done. I pulled out my ancient Windows laptop just to play this but unfortunately couldn't get it to work. So I'm left with using my Mac.

Developer

Hello! My MacOS testing was only for the prior version I’m afraid - does it go into any more detail about why it can’t be opened?

Unfortunately no, it's just a generic "This application can't be opened" popup.

Developer

You could try the following:

First, open a terminal to the folder you put the application in (it might be ~/Applications)

Then run:

chmod +x "Apparatus- Exanimus.app/Contents/MacOS/Apparatus- Exanimus"

Then finally try running the application again

Tried this, on my original download and a new download. But it did not work

Developer(+1)

In that case apologies, I'm not sure what more I can do - I'm unable to reproduce. I've found MacOS to be notoriously tricky to support - sorry

No worries, I develop with Mac so I'm well aware of the headache. Looking forward to playing this if I can get this sorted out!

Ended up using Wine to emulate the Windows version. Works pretty well; can tell some of the shaders have a bit of artifacting, but game runs well so far.

In-game settings: VSync and Fullscreen with 1x pixel scaling has the best performance.

Developer(+1)

Awesome! Thank you for updating :)