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Wonder if anyone else had had this. Downloaded this great project yesterday, and it worked a treat. Great job guys! However, I had to quit, and when I tried to fure it up today, I get the preference panel up, but when I hit launch, it just dies. A new UQM icon appears briefly in the dock then vanishes. I have re-booted, deleted and re-installed, all with no luck. Are there some other files lurking somewhere that I may have corrupted? Any help appreciated

First and foremost, get/install the updated Launcher and game binary from here:

http://www.submedia.net/uqm/

...that may correct your problems all on its own.  If not, open the Finder, and hit Shift-Command-G; in the dialog that appears, enter /tmp  You should see a file in the window that appears named uqm.out, open it in TextEdit and see if it contains any interesting error messages.

Thanks for the reply!
Got the new launcher, no change. The log file has an error listed

/Applications/The Ur-Quan Masters.app/Contents/MacOS/uqm: invalid option -- l
argv[0] = [/Applications/The Ur-Quan Masters.app/Contents/MacOS/uqm]
argv[1] = [--contentdir=/Applications/The Ur-Quan Masters.app/Contents/Resources/content]
argv[2] = [-l]
argv[3] = [/tmp/uqm.out]

I have no idea what this means though

Right.  The updated launcher requires the updated game binary as well.  Install both and try it again.

(I should probably combine them into some manner of unified installer.  A little AppleScript goes a long way sometimes...)

Apologies for being spectacularly thick, but where do I get the binary from?

Note to self : Rad the mails properly

Works perfectly now, cheers for all the help. Really appreciate it!

This is now done; which should hopefully make things easier on future generations of Mac users.  Of course, since you already updated your files, it won't do you any good, but you're still welcome to try it if you like.  ;)