ESLauncher2

A program for organizing Endless Sky installations.

Currently supported features:

• Install Continuous Builds
• Install Development build of PRs
• Install specific versions
• Update instances
• Play instances
• Install & manage plug-ins

Requirements

As of 0.6.0, ESLauncher2 requires OpenGL 3 (same as Endless Sky).

Previous versions required DirectX 11 or 12, Vulkan or Metal. See also #4.

Installation

• Download the latest version for your OS from these^ icons, or the release page.
• For Arch Linux, there's also an AUR package eslauncher2 maintained by @DisableGraphics.

Additional instructions for Mac

Important: the security mechanisms of newer MacOS system do not allow to run unsigned applications. Therefore, please follow the steps below the first time you run the launcher on MacOS.

Instructions

• Download the release to a location of your choice
• Open Finder and navigate to that location
• Unzip the file (usually double clicking on it is enough)
• Right click on the extracted ESLauncher2.app and select "Open"

• If you get presented with a dialogue with 2 options, click cancel and repeat above step

• Once you see the dialogue with 3 options, select "Open"

• The Launcher should open and from now on you can run it by just double-clicking on it.

Please note: sometimes the launcher may open in the background. If you hear the music playing, check in the Dock, you should find it running there.