Greeting Fellow Macophiles,
I am an avid user of vintage Macs (mostly my MDDs) for both fun and productivity. I use my G4 to write/map for TTRPGs as some of my favorite software is no longer viable for modern Mac operating systems. Plus, honestly, my greatest love for Macs was in the PPC era.
With that introduction aside, one of my hobbies is modding Baldur's Gate and its sequel. I've been doing this on my modern system with the Enhanced versions for years now - but I got the itch to try and apply this to the original Macintosh ports of the game.
Specifically, there is a method to move the contents of the first game into the engine of the sequel - adding higher resolution support, increased character options, better graphics, and so on. This is still commonly done with the legacy PC versions (BGTutu) but as the modern (even legacy) Mac versions are just wineskinned - it doesn't really seem to have a presence with modders who use Apple.
I dug and found the page for the original Mac Easy Tutu released in 2006 or so, complete with dead links galore. After taxing the Wayback Machine, I managed to create what I hope is a functioning (and further modded) version of Mac BGTutu. I've even managed to get Weidu up to a fairly recent version (well, sort of) so that favorite mods like Sword Coast Stratagems and NPC Project are fairly bug free.
The question here is, "Would anyone like to see this uploaded?" It is possibly the only way to play BG1 in OSX without the modern post-Leopard wineskinning - it is PPC native, and won't run after Rosetta hit the highway. I'm still testing the stability, and may do a simpler rebuild if there is interest. Even the mods I'm using are over 10 years old, so I don't think this would violate that rule, LOL.
Thanks to Macintosh Garden for being here! I have finally broken my silent member status.
Go For the Eyes Boo!
Grimm