Install Magic The Gathering Online Mac Wine

Posted By admin  On 16.08.21

The following instructions are heavily inspired by @pauleve. I modified his instructions and then added details about how to make a shortcut and support Retina/HiDPI displays.

  1. Install Magic The Gathering Online Mac Wine Bar
  2. Install Magic The Gathering Online Mac Wine Bottle

Installing MTGO (and Wine and Homebrew and Xquartz and ...)

  1. Install Homebrew by opening Terminal and executing the following command:
  1. In Terminal, execute the following command:

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  1. Download and run the Installer for 'Wine Development'.
  2. Open the 'Wine Devel' application, which creates a Terminal window.
  3. In the new Terminal window, execute:

You may be asked to install Mono and Gecko. Install both.

  1. Again, in Terminal, execute these three commands:

Follow the instructions. The installation of .Net can take some time and may require you to install multiple versions of .Net (e.g. 4.0, 4.5, and 4.6).

  1. Once complete, execute these two commands in Terminal:
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Adding Retina/HiDPI Support

  1. In Terminal, execute the following command:
  1. A registry editor window will appear. In the tree structure to the left, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine and then select Edit -> New -> Key from the menu. This creates a new folder/key, which you should name 'Mac Driver'.
  2. Open Mac Driver in the tree structure and then select Edit -> New -> String Value from the menu. This creates a new value, which you should name 'RetinaMode'.
  3. Double click RetinaMode, set its value to 'y', and then click 'OK'.
  4. Close the registry editor and restart wine by typing wineboot into Terminal.
  5. Open Wine's configuration dialog by typing winecfg into Terminal.
  6. Click on the Graphics tab, enter the correct dpi under 'Screen resolution', and click 'OK'. You can find your screen's dpi on Apple Support or via DPI Love.
  7. Restart Wine again by typing wineboot in Terminal.
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Playing MTGO

Option 1: Launching through Wine Devel (the gross way)

  1. Open the 'Wine Devel' application
  2. In the new Terminal window, execute:

Option 2: Creating a shortcut (the sexy way)

  1. Open TextEdit and make sure it is in plain text mode (Shift + Command + T).
  2. Assuming you followed the directions above, paste the following into TextEdit:

If you installed mtgo.exe elsewhere, replace ~ with the path to the mtgo.exe file.

  1. Save this file as 'MTGO' (or anything, really). The important part is ensuring that you save the file without an extention (uncheck 'If no extension is provided, use '.txt'.' in the save window).
  2. Open Terminal and execute the following:

Replacing path/to/file with the path to wherever you saved the file and MTGO with the name of the file.

  1. From now on, all you have to do is double click the file to launch MTGO!
  2. Optional: You can replace the icon for the MTGO file with something nicer.

I have been wanting to get into MTGO cause I usually can’t make it to FNM, and I thought being on a Mac would stop that, How can I get MTGO on my mac?

Any Information would be helpful.

Install

I asked Marshall to answer this question for the blog. Here’s his response! -Jon

I get this question a lot. Here is the setup I use, it’s pretty easy:

1. Virtualization software

This is different than emulation software, and there are two main products for this: Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion. I use Parallels but have used VMWare in the past and been pleased. You need to purchase this software and install it on your Mac. This will allow you to install and run Windows while running OSX.

2. Windows

You will need a licensed copy of Windows to install as a virtual machine on your Mac. You can install any Windows OS that will run MTGO, I use Windows 7 as I find it the most stable, with the least maintenance.

After you get Parallels or similar installed, you can install Windows as a virtual machine. Your chosen program will give you instructions and they have really made it very easy to do this. Then just install MTGO on Windows and your are good to go.

Another option if you don’t need to run Windows at the same time as using Boot Camp, which is free and comes preinstalled on your Mac computer. This is called “Dual-booting”, where instead of running Mac OSX and Windows at the same time, you choose which one you want to run when you turn on the computer. You still have to have a licensed copy of Windows to do this.

You can install Windows and MTGO on it and just boot into a Windows machine when you want to play. This is not particularly convenient though as you have to reboot the computer just to play MTGO and you can’t access your Mac apps while you are doing this.

I recommend just shelling out some extra money for Parallels or VMWare Fusion, as they run excellently on both my 11″ Macbook Air and my 27″ iMac.

**MTGO V4 Update 7/23/14**

I had terrible issues with the V4 client shortly after its launch. The client would boot me 4-5 times per draft, forcing me to relog and miss picks.

Listener Alan wrote in with a fix:

If you have your Parallels Virtual Machine configured in the default manner, the network connection type will be Shared Network, as seen here:

The problem is that it will renew the DHCP Lease every 30 minutes with this setup. This shouldn’t be an issue, but the V4 client of MTGO is touchy about the connection, and will boot you every time it resets.

If you change your “Type” to Default Adapter like this:

The program will renew the lease every 24 hours, eliminating the problem.

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If you find yourself with constant disconnect issues, this should fix it (it did for me).

Install Magic The Gathering Online Mac Wine Bar

Good luck!

Install Magic The Gathering Online Mac Wine Bottle

-Marshall