The Tain

A quick-and-dirty fix is to run the Windows versions of Fear & Loathing under Wine; simply dragging the Fear, Loathing, and SMACKW32.DLL files from the Windows 1.7.2 update seems to work (I used The Unarchiver to decompress the updater exe, but you can also install it directly with Wine).

On The Baron I get terrible frame rates using the detail textures plugin. Normally I get upwards of 100fps (with vsync disabled), but on The Baron that plummets to as low as 19fps. Still playable, but quite degrading to the overall experience. So far I haven't experienced this on any other map. Remo...

Ah well. I was thinking stoning + blue tint could equal a freeze ray but alas. Thanks for the swift response guys.

Not sure if this warrants it's own topic, but is it possible to change the tint color applied to units for stoning and paralysis? I recall that it's possible to change the smoke effects but it doesn't look like local projectile groups affect tint color? I searched, flipped through Fear's documentati...

Myth II is trying to change the color mode to thousands, which is no longer supported under Leopard on newer Macs (or more accurately, the integrated chip on your MacBook Air doesn't support it).

A temporary (though annoying) solution is to run in windowed mode.