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Posted November 04, 2019
Hi!

After an upgrade of GoG Galaxy and MoO1 (MacOS Mojave 10.14.6), the game got renamed to "Master of Orion Classic" and does not allow me to load my saved game anymore (options "load game" and "continue game" are greyed out). However, the file still seems to be there:
~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.master-of orion/Current.boxerstate/C.harddisk
shows a file SAVE1.GAM whose modification date looks right.

Any idea how to encourage the game to open that file?

Cheers, Jörn
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Posted November 05, 2019
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Vollschaaf: ~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.master-of orion/Current.boxerstate/C.harddisk
shows a file SAVE1.GAM whose modification date looks right.

Any idea how to encourage the game to open that file?
The latest build switched to 64-bit DOSBox instead of 32-bit Boxer Standalone (Catalina). Looking at the package it looks like the new build stores the saves inside the .app in the game folder, which it mounts as C. Should just be a matter of copying your olds saves from under ~/Library/Application Support/ to inside the .app, e.g. Show Package Contents, Contents/Resources/game.

You might want to make a new save first to double check that's the correct location.
Post edited November 05, 2019 by Gydion
Posted November 05, 2019
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Gydion: The latest build switched to 64-bit DOSBox instead of 32-bit Boxer Standalone (Catalina). [...]
Do you know if this change from Boxer Standalone to DOSBox was also made for MOO2?
Post edited November 05, 2019 by Rocco.40
Posted November 05, 2019
Thanks Gydion!

Moving the save file to the game folder worked, with one detour.

Here's what to do in detail, assuming others run into the same problem.
1. Start MoO Classic and save a game in the first save slot.
2. Move your save file, renaming it to SAVE1.GAM if necessary. In my case, the terminal command is
mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Boxer/Gamebox\ States/com.gog.master-of-orion/Current.boxerstate/C.harddisk/SAVE1.GAM ~/Applications/Master\ of\ Orion\ Classic.app/Contents/Resources/game/SAVE1.GAM

The first stop is necessary for the game to find the save file.

Cheers, Jörn
Post edited November 05, 2019 by Vollschaaf
Posted November 06, 2019
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Vollschaaf: The first stop is necessary for the game to find the save file.
You also want the CONFIG.MOO file. If that wasn't with the saves then it would be inside the old .app buried in the game directory (Resources/game/Master Of Orion.app/Contents/Resources/Master Of Orion.boxer/C.harddisk/) if you still have it installed. Otherwise, yeah.
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Rocco.40: Do you know if this change from Boxer Standalone to DOSBox was also made for MOO2?
Yes, it was: SHA256 (master_of_orion_2_enUS_1_40b_33251.pkg) = 53e3a9a1857b9f76e048584c5a099d17a6c0967714cfc6d9f91523e26b36eaec
Also, like the current Windows installer it's now using an overlay mount:
mount C "game"
mount C "game\cloud_saves" -t overlay
Post edited November 06, 2019 by Gydion
Posted November 06, 2019
GOG really should put a line in the change log when they do these updates.
Posted November 06, 2019
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Gydion: You also want the CONFIG.MOO file.
I see, didn't think of that. Thanks again!
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