Remember the days when you couldn't run AutoIT on MAC?

[Kovacic]

Not sure if this has been covered recently, but thanks to Wine, and some other software which I wont mention without the approval of an admin, AutoIT on a Mac is now a thing. I have years worth of code and dozens of applications I wrote in the past that I had to let go of, and no time to learn new programming languages after I moved to a Mac out of necessity. 

 

I can happily say I'm back.

[argumentum]

5 hours ago, Kovacic said:

and some other software which I wont mention without the approval of an admin

is it XQuartz ?

[TheDcoder]

Wine is great, it emulates most of the WinAPI, a god sent for us Linux Gamers who want to play Windows games

@argumentum Don't think it is XQuartz, it is a legit software and it is not related to AutoIt. Perhaps they used a decompiler somewhere?

@Kovacic Can you atleast tell us why this "other software" is required? AutoIt works out of the box in wine for me, no additional software required.

[argumentum]

8 hours ago, TheDcoder said:

XQuartz, it is a legit software and it is not related to AutoIt.

Maybe is unity, go figure. He may have started by playing PC games in a Mac and games goes against forum policy
WineBottler maybe ?

Edited September 8, 2020 by argumentum

[TheDcoder]

16 hours ago, argumentum said:

Maybe is unity, go figure. He may have started by playing PC games in a Mac and games goes against forum policy

LOL, maybe

16 hours ago, argumentum said:

WineBottler maybe ?

Might be, that video does show the cursed fork of AUT, pretty sure that is illegal around these parts

[Kovacic]

On 9/8/2020 at 5:45 AM, TheDcoder said:

Wine is great, it emulates most of the WinAPI, a god sent for us Linux Gamers who want to play Windows games

@argumentum Don't think it is XQuartz, it is a legit software and it is not related to AutoIt. Perhaps they used a decompiler somewhere?

@Kovacic Can you atleast tell us why this "other software" is required? AutoIt works out of the box in wine for me, no additional software required.

I would not say its "required" but it adds a GUI to wine, and gives added benefits. I guess its probably not against the rules. Its called CrossOver. Its a GUI slapped ontop of wine with a few extra features.

[TheDcoder]

@Kovacic Oh, that's interesting... I thought CrossOver was just the commercial version of Wine . Were you not able to run GUI applications in Wine without CrossOver?

[JockoDundee]

On 9/9/2020 at 3:42 AM, TheDcoder said:

LOL, maybe

Might be, that video does show the cursed fork of AUT, pretty sure that is illegal around these parts

Searching the forum for “cursed fork” (as well as “wicked branch” , “sinister split” and “banned bifurcation”) returns little information.  

Can you provide more detail?  Unless you deem it unwise

[TheDcoder]

@JockoDundee In olden times, AutoIt was open-source and inevitably there were some forks, which one of them has gained immense popularity over the years, more info can be found on the Wikipedia page for AutoIt

[JockoDundee]

15 hours ago, TheDcoder said:

@JockoDundee In olden times, AutoIt was open-source and inevitably there were some forks...

fwiw, one thing Autoit could use is fork() :)