{"id":545,"date":"2022-03-18T21:43:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alterego.cc\/wp\/?p=545"},"modified":"2022-10-17T20:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:10:53","slug":"dexter-stardust-on-m1-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alterego.cc\/wp\/2022\/03\/18\/dexter-stardust-on-m1-macbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Dexter Stardust on M1 MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Playing this amazing game on my Apple MacBook Air M1 2020 and I am totally lovin’ it. Before being able to play it however, I had to fight with a small error message (note that if you run the game from the UI you won’t see anything, just its icon flashing and then the game shutting down itself)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By opening the terminal and trying running the game with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

open DexterStardust.app<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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The following error is thrown<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The application cannot be opened for an unexpected reason, error=Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-10810 \"kLSUnknownErr: Unexpected internal error\" UserInfo={_LSFunction=_LSLaunchWithRunningboard, _LSLine=2732, NSUnderlyingError=0x600001902250 {Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 \"Launch failed.\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Launch failed., NSUnderlyingError=0x6000019021f0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 \"Operation not permitted\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Launchd job spawn failed}}}}}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Note this should be version 1.1 of the game. I downloaded it a few hours after it became available on itch.io<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In my case the application is already copied in the \/Applications folders of my macOS drive. To make it run, I executed, from within the \/Applications directory, the following commands<\/p>\n\n\n\n
xattr DexterStardust.app\nxattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine DexterStardust.app<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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The first command confirms that the file has the extended attribute com.apple.quarantine<\/strong> (just for you do see, not actually necessary to make it work) and the second removes it from the file. At this point a simple<\/p>\n\n\n\n
open DexterStardust.app<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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runs the game!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Basically the com.apple.quarantine<\/strong> is an extended attribute that was added at some point, somehow by something, for some reasons, and that’s what is preventing the game to run. xattr<\/a><\/strong> is a command to manipulate extended attributes, -r<\/strong> removes the attributes from all the files within the package (the .app file is a package), and -d<\/strong> deletes the given attribute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I learned how to do it stuff by trying to make games work on my Olivetti M24 (circa 1990). Fast forward to 2022 and I learn new stuff by trying playing games on an Apple M1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[32,72,64,71,73,48,70],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-dexter-stardust","tag-english","tag-gaming","tag-m1","tag-macos","tag-videogames"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alterego.cc\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dexter-stardust-banner.png?fit=2880%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1390,"url":"https:\/\/alterego.cc\/wp\/2022\/11\/14\/macos-ventura-issues-with-multiple-monitors\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":0},"title":"macOS Ventura issues with multiple monitors","author":"fabio","date":"14 November 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Having issues with Microsoft Remote Desktop on a Mac running macOS Ventura? 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