We used to have to make a separate version for Macs and Windows of each mod that had textures, in order to reverse the color channels for the PPC version, which was a real hassle.
That's also why textures don't work properly on PPC Macs now. The AEI2 came out in 2013 so we didn't see any need to worry about PPC support anymore.
The purpose of the Setup script is just to place the files in an "AE" folder, and the purpose of the Run AE Installer script is to launch the AEInstaller2Updater.jar, which downloads AEInstaller2.jar and related files, or to launch AEInstaller2.jar if it is already present so however you want to do that, the goal is just to get AEInstaller2.jar downloaded and running.Īs far as older versions of the AE (keep in mind that it's a modding framework, not a mod), unfortunately our mod packages use the 2.0 format nowadays, so they require AE Installer v2.x to install them. But let me back up a second and mention that although the AppleScript is just for convenience, I remembered that it's in AppleScriptObjC, which isn't supported in 10.6, so you'd need to go back in our repo to when it was in pure AppleScript in order to get something you can run in 10.5 see here. Hmm, as far as I know, the AE Installer only requires Java 6. Unfortunately, mods that include textures are no longer PPC-friendly, and the textures will look color-inverted (Intel Oni uses the color channels differently). There might be more obstacles to this which I haven't thought of, but once you've got the AE Installer running, I think it should work for you. If all you want is to be able to run Oni, then you can ignore the AE and just use that PPC build, but I assumed that you want to be able to install mods too. Then you are going to have to use the old PPC build of Oni from Omni Group as your game app. If you are AppleScript-savvy, you can examine the script to see what it is supposed to do (invoke the AE Installer Updater through Java, or else run the AE Installer itself if it is present), and perform those functions manually in Terminal - or just re-build the script as an app on your PowerMac to get a native version of the script app that you can use going forward. But the next step in installation is to open the Run AE Installer script, which probably also won't work on PPC.
I don't think the AE Setup app will run on PPC, so you would have to extract the contents of the app bundle (the parts that were meant to be installed, that is) and place them manually in an "AE" folder inside your "Oni" folder.