Running Doom on OSX

March 09, 2020

Note: This may have been fixed, but if not, this worked for me:

Requires: Odamex (and doom)

Macs have a “feature” where it sandboxes applications if things aren’t done in a very particular way. It’s called app translocation. It doesn’t affect most applications’ behavior, or your ability to use them, but because of how Odamex interact interacts with OSX, it will causes serious issues.

If you are comfortable with typing commands into the terminal you can “untranslocate” the application.

1. Open your terminal and cd /Applications/Odamex
2. Run the command xattr odalaunch.app
3. Run this command xattr -d com.apple.quarantine odalaunch.app if needed. Do the same for odamex.app and odasrv.
4. Then delete the file ~/Library/Preferences/odalaunch\ Preferences

If you do that and you have your wads in the Odamex directory, you should be able to start odalaunch and hit the yellow odamex button.