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#1
There must be some metadata associated with running an unknown author program for the first time which is stashed somewhere, maybe in the executable bundle itself, I don't know.

Something that causes the computer to behave differently on running it for the first time compared to subsequent times when it already knows you accepted it.

And whatever the change in behaviour is subsequent times is b0rk3n.

It's just a guess, but the reason I at least slightly expect Apple's new app security in Mavericks is that I just ditched Mavericks and reinstalled Mountain Lion.

Now, the program launches just fine, each and every time.

I don't recommend something this heavy-handed for everybody, but I've got other applications that refuse to behave correctly in Mavericks in a similar vein.  Apps wrapped up in Wineskin Winery (a nice bundler tool that builds self-contained wine environments for PC executables) fails to run subsequent times under the "test run" facility, requiring a reinstall of a tiny part of the innards, and fails to run at all simply by double-clicking the wholly wrapped executable.

Mavericks does not seem to like certain kinds of third party apps, for whatever reason.  It doesn't happen on recognized author apps, nor on executables you generate yourself by way of a compiler (in my limited testing).

But in any case, I wish you all luck getting it to work in Mavericks.  I had to go back to Mountain Lion for this problem affecting other necessary apps, so I'm done here, until Mavericks stabilizes its security measures, or the apps catch up to whatever Apple now requires.

Pony on, all. /)
#2
Okay, new information.  The first time the application is copied over from the .dmg file for UltraStarDeluxe, it asks if you really want to run it, and if you say yes, it runs.  If the MLP stuff happens to be already installed in the correct places, it runs, and you can switch themes, play music, anything.

On any subsequent launch, though, it hangs.

This makes me suspect it is an incompatibility with Mavericks "Gatekeeper" application security feature somehow.  It might explain why I have problems getting Wineskin Winery to behave 100% correctly.

It does this even if I ostensibly disable Gatekeeper by telling OSX security to accept applications from anywhere.

The really stupid workaround is to keep a pristine copy of the application around to whack the one I'm running every time I want to run it.

I wonder if my system is b0rk3n somehow or if other people are having this issue with Mavericks.

I don't know how to fix this.
#3
Well, the first option seems not to have helped, with the manual install into a stock program. The stock program seems to run, but when I add the songs to the resources area, I end up with the program using 100% cpu and doing nothing.

I'll see what i can come up with.
#4
ALright, skip the bit about the player1/mic recording complaint.... it was just in the workaround anyway, but I figured out I didn't understand the interface.  Just turned off player 1 on the line-in record first.

Biggest problem with this workaround is that the settings aren't preserved.  Might be a result of Wineskin Winery itself being a little fickle on Mavericks.

As posted, though, mac version on the ISO does not work for me.
#5
Recently upgraded my OS to Mavericks (10.9).  Old installation of the program which ran before crashed outright.  Reinstalled completely from ISO.  New version just bounces in the dock and fails to show any windows.  Hung.

Workaround: Install the PC version of it using Wineskin Winery (which itself is having moderate issues in Mavericks, but they're work-around-able too).  Play with multiple players as player 1 seems stuck on the Line-In input (attempts to set standard built in mic input for player one has the program complain that player 1 has multiple recording devices associated with him).

Workaround is definitely not ideal.



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