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The Sims 1 on macOS 10.15

Installed successfully but launching leads to full screen with 4:3 white rectangle

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badabingbadabong Sunday 20 December 2020 at 16:35
badabingbadabongAnonymous

Dear all,

to briefly escape these desperate times I thought I gift the gift of nostalgia by setting up The Sims Complete Collection (downloaded from archive.org) on a friends mac running macOS version 10.15.7. Using PlayOnMac I managed to install the game successfully, moved the no CD crack into the adiquate system folder of the virtual volume and launch the game. But that just sends me into full screen mode of something that's called "wine32on64-preloader" where there's a 4:3 screen aspect ratio showing nothing but white and a larger, more pixelated mouse than usual, which is why it seemes to me that the launching process is stuck. Does anyone know a solution to that problem? This is what the log book tells me:

 

[12/20/20 16:29:33] - Running wine- Sims.exe (Working directory : /Users/badabingbadabong/Library/PlayOnMac/wineprefix/The_Sims_Complete_Collection/drive_c/Program Files/Maxis/Die Sims)

0022:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device object 0x6003

0022:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device object 0x9e07

0022:err:plugplay:process_IOService_Device object 0x6203

0009:err:quartz:GetClassMediaFile Media class not found

0009:fixme:amstream:DirectDrawMediaStreamImpl_IDirectDrawMediaStream_GetFormat (0x2114d4)->(0x33f298,0x0,0x0,0x33f29c) stub!

0009:err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 2352 bytes in thread 0009 eip 7bc7c7f8 esp 240f50 stack 0x240000-0x241000-0x340000

 

Any help is appreciated .

Edited by badabingbadabong