As of MacOS Catalina, Macintosh computers no longer support 32-bit Apps. This is unfortunate, because the Eschalon series is written in a defunct language called BlitzMax, which is no longer supported and never had a 64-bit compiler.
What that means is the Eschalon games are not going to work on the latest version of MacOS. Perhaps some clever person will develop a 32-bit emulator for Catalina that will allow apps like Eschalon to run? Until then, your only option is to play it on an older MacOS, or on a different platform altogether.
If we find a solution that works, we’ll be sure to post it here.
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Никита Демченко
The official website says it’s
>BlitzMax, 64-bit macOS edition. Includes SDL backend and mojo2.
https://www.blitzmax.org/downloads/
Did I miss something?
Basilisk Games
I honestly didn’t know BlitzMax went fully open source. The last time I checked with the original developer a few years ago, it was pretty much abandoned. We’ll take a look and see what it will take to recompile Eschalon in x64. There are other dependencies that may not compile properly, but we’ll give it a shot.
Rito
Just finished the first instalment of Eschalon and wanted to say thank you to the devs for making such an entertaining game with fun story and interesting mechanics. I hope to play the next two games soon when I have some spare money! Thank you again.