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Just purchased U7 through GOG and followed the Exult installation instruction in documentation. It looks like Exult has a problem with some of the hardware on my 2006 MacBook Pro.

When I try to launch Exult 1.5 crashes at the Creating AudioMixer step.

I was able to start U7 using the GOG install and the game seems to start normally including sound.

System Details:
MacBook Pro 1,2
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Intel Core Duo 2.16 GHz 2GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1600 256 MB VRAM
Intel High Definition Audio

Error from Console Output:
[0x0-0xd00d].net.sourceforge.exult[149] Creating AudioMixer...
com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[105] ([0x0-0xd00d].net.sourceforge.exult[149]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error

When I start Exult in the terminal I get the following log:

Exult version 1.5.0git
Built at: May 14 2016 10:36:49
Compile-time options: USE_FMOPL_MIDI, USE_MT32EMU_MIDI, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT, HAVE_OPENGL
Compiler: gcc, version: 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)

Platform: Mac OS X
Exult path settings:
Data : /Library/Application Support/Exult/data
Digital music : /Library/Application Support/Exult/data/music

Looking for 'blackgate' at '/Library/Application Support/Exult/blackgate'... found game with identity 'FORGE'
Looking for 'forgeofvirtue' at '/Library/Application Support/Exult/forgeofvirtue'... but it wasn't there.
Looking for 'serpentisle' at '/Library/Application Support/Exult/serpentisle'... found game with identity 'SILVER SEED'
Looking for 'silverseed' at '/Library/Application Support/Exult/silverseed'... but it wasn't there.
Black Gate : not found (/)
Forge of Virtue : found
exult_bg.flx : not found (/Library/Application Support/Exult/data/exult_bg.flx)
Serpent Isle : not found (/)
Silver Seed : found
exult_si.flx : not found (/Library/Application Support/Exult/data/exult_si.flx)
Checking rendering support
Windowed 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
640x480 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
720x480 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
800x500 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
800x600 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1024x640 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1024x768 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1152x720 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1280x800 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1280x1024 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1440x852 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
1680x1050 8 bpp ok 16 bpp ok 32 bpp ok
Creating AudioMixer...
Bus error
logout

Please right click the exult.app and choose to run it as ppc, it should work then without any problem for now. I'll see if I can find a cure some other time.