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Script to run on Mac OSX

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:15:04 GMT

Someone online was asking how to get this running on a Mac. Here is a simple script, save it as run_taxinaut.sh in your Taxinaut directory, then run "sh run_taxinaut.sh".

#!/bin/sh

# Taxinaut is a wonderful game, but it doesn't officially support mac.

# Run this script to launch Taxinaut properly on macOS.

# Always run from the directory where this script lives

cd "$(dirname "$0")"

TOKEN_FILE=".taxinaut_mac_approved"

# If token file does not exist, remove quarantine attributes

if [ ! -f "$TOKEN_FILE" ]; then

echo "First-time setup: approving Taxinaut for macOS..."

# Remove quarantine flag recursively from this directory

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine . 2>/dev/null

# Create token file so we don't repeat this

touch "$TOKEN_FILE"

echo "Approval complete."

# Launch Taxinaut

java -Xmx2000M -Xms2000M -XX:+UseParallelGC \

-cp "taxinaut.jar:lib/*:mod/mod/*" \

net.mosgrom.taxi.Taxi "$@"

Anybody home?

Sat, 04 Sep 2021 02:47:22 GMT

There hasn't been any talk here for a while

Little bit of feedback so far..

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 10:19:39 GMT

Came across your game this evening, havent sunk a lot of time into it yet as its late. But i found the basic in-game tutorial good. However i keep crashing into other ships especially the bird like ones that do not stop. This even happens if you stop and they fly into you. I get there has to be some sense of traffic and sort of a mini-game of dodge but i feel there is too many of them, where i could see this getting tedious and stressful. Perhaps night-time there is less of them or some planets there are less traffic? the other types of ships do stop to avoid collision which is good. I understand the bird like ones are suppose to be a hazard. Perhaps cut those ones down by 30% or at least have a game setting where we can using a slider adjust to what we prefer as a form of diffculty (some players like a casual chill style game and others might relish twitch reflexes every 20 seconds). So my first two goes with the game i crashed to the point of wrecking my ship, first time it was game over and restarted with my ship needing repairs and I had 0 Vudu, im guessing i had to borrow money to fix it. I restarted the game.

Also on the main screen where there are icons for some buildings/landing zones some are self-explaintory and some are not- it would be nice to be able to pause and hover mouse over ones you dont know what they are to be told. One was a motel that i accidently flew into and had to click through the explainatory bits before i could leave again- what about when flying over a landing zone the ship stops and we hit L to land or click on the land button rather than auto land (perhaps there is a setting for toggling auto-land ).

Anyway that is all the feedback i have for now. Will have another go tomorrow and dig deeper into the game.

Rock Paper Shotgun

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 12:30:21 GMT

It was with utter delight that I saw a wonderfully written article about TAXINAUT by Sin Vega on Rock Paper Shotgun. Check it out! They seem to be able to explain better what I want with the game than I'm able to do myself:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/03/06/taxinaut-is-an-odd-delightful-space-taxi-sim/