Kaleidoscope remained the primary theme platform, even after the Appearance Control Panel offered theme capabilities in Mac OS 8.5. Steve Jobs returned to Apple just before the release of Mac OS 8.5, and he decided to officially drop support for themes because he wanted to preserve a consistent user interface. An open-source project called Collapse OS, led by Quebec programmer Virgil Dupras, aims to broaden the range of computing devices that could be usefully scavenged in a post-collapse scenario.
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic is a Turn-based Combat, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed and published by AtomTeam for Multiple Platforms. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic-themed world and offers fantastic gameplay heavily inspired by various games such as Deus Ex, Wasteland, System Shock, and more. It revolves around a conflict in 1986, in which both the Western Bloc and the Soviet Union were smashed in mutual nuclear bombings. However, the player acts as one of the survivors of the nuclear battle. Now, the main aim of the player is to explore the wild environment of the wasteland in order to earn his place under the sun. While playing the game, the player needs to interrogate a conspiracy, targeted at smashing all things that are left of life on the planet Earth. The game introduces a powerful character development tool, providing players with the ability to make the wasteland hero the player want to portray. ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic offers core features such as Turn-based Combat, Random Encounters, Unique Gaming Experience, Multiple-choice Dialogues, Non-linear Gameplay, and more. Check it out, and you love to play this game.
#1 Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Shadowrun: Hong Kong is an amazing Hack and Slash, RPG and Action-Adventure video game by Harebrained Schemes. This game is loaded with superb 3D characters to give massive attraction towards its brilliant game play. The game is set in the era of 2056. You will experience the superb Cyberpunk game play. You have to take the control of the city by going through different combats. The combats in this game are strategic and turn based. You will get different upgrades for improving the skills, abilities and more unique spells to have more epic combats at every stage of the game. Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a great game to play and enjoy. Shadowrun: Hong Kong offers beautiful scenarios and visuals, amazingly addictive gameplay and quite fantastic visuals to enjoy. Do try it out, it's fun to play and enjoy.
#2 Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun Returns is a Turn-based Tactical RPG and Sci Fi video game by Harebrained Schemes. The game allows you to choose your character from five different races, such as trolls, orcs, elves, dwarves and humans. You can choose to play as one of the six given classes such as Street Samurai, Decker, Rigger, Mage, Shaman or Physical Adept, or you can play without choosing any class. You can explore the game world by going through the strategic combats while completing different quests. You can customize your character at different stages of the game by getting different upgrades and skills including weapons. You will find different items to use or sell while interacting with the environment. Shadowrun Returns is a superb game to play and enjoy.
#3 Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Dragonfall is a super engaging Action-Adventure, Cyberpunk-RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Harebrained Schemes. This epic game provides with an amazing strategy based game-play that lets you experience a wonderful mix up of all the above mentioned elements. The game is about the return of the dark magic that unleashed powerful mythical creatures and among them was the one mighty Dragon named as Feuerschwinge who emerged from the mountains of Germany and brought heavy destruction and chaos with it. German Forces kept on fighting off the Feuerschwinge and after four months of heavy fights and destruction they finally shot it down and that was called The Dragonfall. Years later in 2054, Germany becomes the hub of tech and the population is now doubled as the Elves and Trolls have joined the populace, giant corporations have corrupted the Govts. and now Germany is in the control of Flux State after the heavy anarchy and chaos. With a lot of new threats and you as a Shadow Runner, the Flux State hires you to go against the re-surfacing Feuerschwinge, eliminate it and restore the order. Would you accept the challenge? Shadowrun: Dragonfall offers brilliant realistic visauls and sounds, a well-written story and an immersive game-play tho enjoy.
#4 Xenonauts
Xenonauts is a Sci-Fi Turn-based Tactical-RPG and Strategy video game that offers a brilliant gameplay with similarities to XCOM series games. The game draws heavy inspiration from the Original X-Com and is set in Alternate timeline of Earth where you take on the role of the Commander of Xenonauts, an organization leading the resistance against the invasion. Your main task is to reorganize your army units, collect the funding for various projects, launch numerous missions to intercept enemy UFos and complete the game objectives by defeating the enemies and capturing all of their ships plus their base. Xenonauts offers similar mechanics to its predecessor and the original game of the series X-Com and allows you to enjoy leading epic missions against the enemies, show off your superior Tactical and Strategy skills, engage in epic combats and enjoy an immersive game-play. With all the refined aesthetics of X-Com, visually stunning and quite brilliant game-play plus the addictive nature, Xenonauts is a wonderful game to play.
#5 Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 is Tactical Action, RPG and Post-Apocalyptic video game set in an alternate history. Wasteland 2 is the first ever Sequel to the 1988's popular Wasteland video game and it offers more enhanced game mechanics, graphics and core gameplay etc. The game is based on a Nuclear War that started when a cluster of Meteors hit various Nuclear sites. A huge Nuclear war started out that almost totally devastated the world. The day when all this happened, some of the U.S. Army Engineers were working in a desolate Desert deep into the Southwestern region, minutes after the Cataclysmic event they went into hiding in the prison they were setting up for the Death Row prisoners. The Soldiers sought shelter in the prison and when the time was right, they got back up to the surface and started searching for the Survivors, who ever was found, teamed up with them and all of the survivors formed the Desert Rangers, years after the Nuclear Holocaust. Wasteland 2 starts off 15 years after the events of Wasteland and connects the story to its predecessor in a way that it literally feels like the same. Wasteland 2 is a kind of strategic game that allows you to play as anyone of the available characters, Control a total number of seven characters (Three main and 4 NPCs), Explore the game world, face some of the worst ever mutants and nightmarish creatures, fight them off with all the available weapons such as guns, melee weapons and stuff, earn experience points, develop new skills, get health updates, and complete a number of quests, etc. With all the amazingly bashing Combats, hardcore Action and Thrill, Wasteland 2 offers a fantastic Story-driven gameplay, unique characters and fabulous visuals to enjoy. If you haven't yet played this game, try it out and enjoy all the Post-Apocalyptic fun.
#6 The Banner Saga
The Banner Saga by Stoic is an amazingly engaging Tactical, Strategy, RPG and Free-to-Play MMO video game. The game allows you to get into the role of Viking who is destined to make strategic choices, make allies and travel to unknown distances in order to eliminate an epic new threat that is about to vandalize a whole civilization. You must find the ones who will accompany you in the harshest of conditions and on unforgiving landscape in a world where everything that's not you, wants to kill you. This wonderful game provides with a Final Fantasy Tactics and game of Throne type game-play in which you can get attached to anyone emotionally in order to make the game more interesting. The Banner Saga provides with unique aesthetics, a well-written story, an action oriented game-play etc.
#7 Fallout
Fallout is an RPG (Role Playing Game) Open World Single Player video game, set in an apocalyptic era in a devastated alternate reality. The game features the protagonist as an inhabitant of a nuclear shelter known as Vault who is tasked to find out the Water Chip to save a lot of people from dying of thrust. The protagonist gets 150 days to find the water chip till the water ends, if he is failed to find out the chip, mutants will attack the vaults and kill everybody in Vault 13 and all other connected ones. The protagonist, because of short options, joins the mutant army remaining in disguise and keeps on searching the water chip. He finally approaches a possible chip location and finds it in the hands of the Master, kills him after a long lasting combat, destroys the whole mutant facility and returns to the vault. This superb RPG and Action-Adventure marvel is a great blend of all the super addictive elements and keeps you tied up to the gaming station for hours. Great story, engaging game-play and a lot of other exciting aspects are the real deal for all the hard core RPG gaming enthusiasts.
#8 Skulls of the Shogun
Skulls of the Shogun by Microsoft Studios is an amazing Turn-based Strategy and Tactics video game that lets you set up yourself into the character of General Akamoto who gets stabbed to death on the day of becoming a Shogun. In the land of Dead he realizes that he'll have to wait for centuries in order to go to the afterlife and becomes frustrated. He battles his way to the afterlife only to find out that his killer Lieutenant Karakawa has stolen his identity and is living in the afterlife as General Akamoto. Karakowa teams up with the protectors and a whole new series of battles starts up between the two sides. Your task is to defeat all the demonic forces, reach to the Karakowa and kill him in order to get back your identity and to enter in the afterlife. Skulls of the Shogun provides with a different touch but same mechanics and game-play as all the other games of the similar type and it'll definitely make you enjoy and entertain yourself to the limits.
#9 Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin is a marvelous Single-Player, Action-Adventure and a Cooperative Fantasy RPG video game by Larian Studios. The game lets you be a pair (Cooperative) of two Source Hunters who are basically the members of a faction that is destined to eliminate dangerous magic named The Source that with the help of The Sorcerers is swallowing up the realm on a very high pace. Your task is to gather up your party of individuals like you and go on to the most epic quests and adventures to hunt down the Sorcerers and finally eradicate the Dark magic The Source. To achieve the goals, you must get into the brutal combats, explore an open world, join your friends in a Co-Op multiplayer game-play and enjoy this cool game to the limits. With wonderfully created mechanics, enhanced graphics, unique character customization options, regular upgrades and a huge pile of DLC (Downloadable Content), Divinity: Original Sin is a wonder.
#10 Expeditions: Conquistador
Expeditions: Conquistador is an epic Indie, Action-Adventure, MMO, Strategy and RPG video game by Logic Artists that takes you to an amazing era of 16th century and the Spanish explorers who reached the shores of America with the soldiers in search of gold, fame and adventures. This epic game will take you directly to the wilderness of where you'll have to face Hunger, Harshest territorial difficulties, disease and dangerous creatures that you have never seen before. On this once home of the Aztec Empire, you'll have to settle down, build structures, train armies, make diplomatic relations to the neighboring settlements and conquer the world that is still vacant and is filled with the epic loot. Expeditions: Conquistador lets you go against the native savages, kill them, loot their resources, go on epic quests to find the unimaginable goods, engage in battles with the natives and lay the bases of your superiority and your rule. Expeditions: Conquistador is an amazing MMO-RTS video game to play and enjoy.
#11 Battle World: Kronos
Battle World: kronos is an MMO and Turn-Based Real time Strategy and a war-based video game that lands you into a militaristic setting. The game allows you to engage yourself into campaigns, skirmishes and wars against your enemies from the Yerla Faction. You get to control your own troop units, train them and use the most sophisticated weaponry against your enemies. Battle World: kronos lets you explore the game world, assault your enemies using transporting vehicles, Air Support and via troops, seize their properties and loot their resources etc. You can play the game online with your friends in multiplayer gaming mode and make alliances to defeat your enemy with the greatest force, tactical advantage and might. Battle World: kronos is a great strategy and war based MMO video game to play and enjoy. try it out if you haven't yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.
Note: This post may be a little out of date as it was originally written in 2015. But I'm posting it here as the fundamentals have not really changed much.
Credits: Thanks to Gary Larizza for his post on AFP548.com where most of this documents content was sourced ( https://www.afp548.com/2010/06/03/the-commandments-of-packaging-in-os-x )
When managing Mac OS X devices, you will enviably have to deploy files or applications to many devices. There are many ways to achieve this, however the most effective and best practice method is to use Packages.
While packaging is quite simple, it can very quickly become quite complex. This document serves to provide some guidelines to help you avoid some simple mistakes and prevent confusion when creating packages.
There are many tools out there used to create Packages, Apple offer their own built in command line tools like pkgbuild. This guide will not go into detail about how to use any of these tools, it is up to the system admin's own personal preference on which tools they wish to use in order to create their packages.
However version control is very important, as is the ability to quickly and accurately create and recreate packages. Hate and cheating mac os. The ability for packages to be peer reviewed and package versions to easily be diff'd is also important and the admin's choice of tools should take this into account. It is also highly recommend that a version control system such as git is used in combination with package creation.
Below is a list of tools that are recommended for creating packages:
Packages by Whitebox
A great GUI driven tool to create flat and distribution packages and provides an easy to learn GUI. It is still quite powerful and allows a great deal of control over how your packages are created. A build file is created which saves information on how the package should be created such as the payload, pre/post flight scripts, additional resources etc etc.
Cost: $0 – FREE
The Luggage
A completely text driven package building system perfect for use with version control systems such as Git. Files can easily be reviewed to see what will be in the package without any extra work.
The big benefit to using The Luggage is that because the packages are created with make files, these make files can easily be diff'd to see changes as well as talking other users through the creation process. No GUI panes to navigate.
Cost: $0 – FREE
Munki PKG
Munki PKG is a simple tool very similar to The Luggage which builds packages in a consistent, repeatable manner from source files and scripts in a project directory.
Files, scripts and metadata are stored in a way that is easy to track and manage using a version control system like git.
Cost: $0 – FREE
Installation method
Your installer should not require any input from the end user.
DO NOT:
- Assume that your package will be installed interactively via the GUI or to the currently booted volume. More often than not packages will be deployed to machines via management systems such as Munki or Casper. Because of this you should ensure that your package can be installed to machines that are unattended (at the login window without a console user logged in)
DO:
- Ensure that your package can be installed via the command line and by any management framework with and without a user logged in.
Installation target
DO NOT:
- Assume that your package will be installed to the currently booted volume. Your package might not necessarily be installed to the currently booted volume, so ensure that any scripts in your package use the correct variables passed to it from the installer application. For example, reference the target volume in your scripts by using the variable $3 (in bash) rather than using absolute file references.
- Use tools such as sw_vers in order to get the Operating System version. These tools will only report the OS of the currently booted volume.
DO:
- Check the SystemVersion.plist on the target volume ($3)
- Check if the boot volume (/) is the same as the target volume ($3) if any of your scripts require it.
Unnecessary actions.
DO NOT:
- Perform ‘helpful' things like using osascript to open a Finder window showing your newly installed application. Similarly do not do things like opening a browser window to the installed software's homepage.
- The problem with these things is if you are installing the software in an unattended mode where the computer is at the LoginWindow, these types of things will simply cause errors in your installation process.
- Require unnecessary reboots if you can accomplish the same thing by loading/unloading LaunchDaemons/LaunchAgents – If you go down this path, remember that it is even more important to check if you are installing to the boot volume or not.
- Automatically add files to the Dock, Desktop or anywhere outside of /Applications or other required directories. If you wish to add Dock items, use another package/script/profile/tool to achieve that.
- Ask for admin/elevated privileges if they are not needed for installation, i.e. installing into
/Users/Shared - Create separate installers for different architectures/OS versions. If you have separate payloads for separate architectures/OS versions, perform your architecture/OS check on the target volume, not the currently booted operating system see rule 2.
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- Use a distribution meta-package to provide a single package that will correctly determine OS/Architecture of the destination volume and install the appropriate payload.
Licensing
Licensing should be managed by Systems Administrators. Wherever possible licensing files should be packaged separately to the application being deployed. This allows for a single application package to be deployed to multiple sites with different licensing files applied later depending upon the licence that is appropriate for that site.
Licensing information might be supplied via a global plist/config profile/KMS or other.
This also prevents unauthorised installation of software should your application package be obtained by a unauthorised third party.
DO NOT:
- Place licensing and registration files in the user's home directory wherever possible. Use a global location such as /Library
- Building licensing/registration mechanisms into the installer GUI.
DO:
- Allow a scriptable licensing interface to your software
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Pre/Post install scripts
Use pre and post install scripts only when necessary, and follow all other rules with your scripts.
For example, it would be silly to use a package to install some files on disk and then use a post install script to set the permissions of those files. Instead correctly set the permissions of the files in the payload.
This also allows for reviewing of package contents via lsbom
DO NOT:
- Use postinstall scripts to create or modify files – do this in the package payload.
- If you must use post-install scripts, do not use osascript to move and copy files. Use CLI tools such as cp and mv in bash
- Use any kind of GUI scripting, see Rule 1.
- Use sudo in your scripts, your script is already running as root.
DO:
- Exit your script with 0 on success, or non-zero on failure.
- Trap error codes in your scripts
- Use globbing in your scripts, because no one likes repetition and computers are built to do the work for us so let them.
- Ensure your scripts handle paths with spaces in them.
Naming Conventions and Version Numbers
Naming conventions are necessary and helpful. For example VPN.pkg is NOT helpful.
Give your packages meaningful names and version numbers. Providing vendor and product name, along with important version numbers and vendor identification codes.
DO:
- List your vendor and product name in your package name
- Give packages meaningful names with version numbers. Remember 1.15 is greater than 1.2 in most situations.
Supporting Operating System Versions
Pong with powerups mac os. If you are going to supporting running your application or payload on operating systems back to say version 10.8, then it should go without saying that you need to TEST your package on every version from 10.8 to the most current.
DO NOT:
- Change the ownership and permissions of core Operating System folders and files
DO:
- Keep your config data and cache data separate
- Follow the directory structure mandated by the target platforms software deployment guidelines
- Provide an uninstaller or uninstall script
- Use the documented OS X .pkg format and not just a .pkg wrapper for a 3rd party solution that installs the software for you – obvious exception for Adobe software.
Be Descriptive
Even if you are not planning on having your package installed via the GUI you should still make it GUI-friendly.
DO:
- Provide a welcome message, read-me, description of whats happening and whats being installed.
- Comment your pre/post install scripts thoroughly.
Snapshotting and Re-Packaging
Try to avoid using Snapshot methods to create packages – a common tool used to create snapshot packages is JAMF's composer.
Snapshotting is generally considered bad juju and the result of a lazy (not in a good way) sysadmin
Packages created from snapshots lack the nuances and intent of the original package. They can often miss critical files or modifications to the file system.
If you are unable to use a vendor package, consider the following:
DO:
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- Attempt to unpack and reverse engineer the package – Use tools such as Pacifist (https://www.charlessoft.com/) and pkgutil –expand to determine what the package is attempting to achieve.
- Try to modify the existing vendor package using things like providing a custom Choices.XML to select certain packages in a meta/distribution package for installation.
Product Signing
Gatekeeper was introduced in 10.8 as a way to alert users to unsigned packages. For this reason, it is best practice to sign your installer packages with a developer ID certificate that lets your users know your packages can be trusted. It also allows packages to be installed in the GUI when Gatekeeper is configured to allow apps downloaded from the App Store and identified developers
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Unsigned packages are not an issue when not using the GUI installer however.
DO:
- Use productsign to sign your packages with an Apple Developer ID certificate
