Thanks for your quick reply! Ugh, I tried it and didn't work ☹️
It looked as it might - the icon bounced as if it were opening - the large Logo appears and then poof. All closes.
Here's what cider said:
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/Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app/Contents/MacOS/cider ; exit;
richard-capitans-imac:~ RichandAlison$ /Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app/Contents/MacOS/cider ; exit;
2016-06-23 21:20:37.774 cider[63705:1348696] TransformProcessType failed! Err: -50
Line 168: Malformed value '"fbobackbuffer" = “1”'
err:reg:Nt_openConfigW could not retrieve the module file name (reason: 'bad module')
err:dosfs:GetDeviceFromBSDName IOBSDNameMatching returned a NULL dictionary.
err:dosfs:DeviceIsCDorDVD IOServiceGetMatchingService returned IO_OBJECT_NULL.
err:dosfs:GetDeviceFromBSDName IOBSDNameMatching returned a NULL dictionary.
err:dosfs:DeviceIsCDorDVD IOServiceGetMatchingService returned IO_OBJECT_NULL.
err:reg:Nt_openConfigW could not retrieve the module file name (reason: 'bad module')
err:reg:Nt_openConfigW could not retrieve the module file name (reason: 'bad module')
err:wave_audiodevice:audio_device_stereo_channels device 43 failed to get preferred stereo channels (0x77686f3f)
err:wave_audiodevice:audio_device_channel_volume_writable device 43 failed to get volume writable (0x77686f3f)
err:wave_audiodevice:audio_device_format failed to get device 43 format inputChannel: 0 (0x77686f3f)
err:wave_audiodevice:audio_device_format failed to get device 49 format inputChannel: 1 (0x77686f3f)
err:heap:NewRtlFreeHeap block 0x4243af0 isn't a valid part of heap 0x714271c0
err:heap:NewRtlFreeHeap block 0x4243ad0 isn't a valid part of heap 0x714271c0
err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load .so lib for builtin pr.dll: dlopen(/Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpr.dylib, 2): image not found
err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load .so lib for builtin paul.dll: dlopen(/Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpaul.dylib, 2): image not found
err:module:BUILTIN32_dlopen failed to load .so lib for builtin paul.dll: dlopen(/Applications/SPORE/SPORE.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpaul.dylib, 2): image not found
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