hey thanks for getting back to me, yeah it was playonmac sorry. i can get the openmw osx on my computer but i don't know how to get morrowind.exe to run there or where the datafiles would be placed. tried innoextract and homebrew [it's a gog file not steam] and get the following response:
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/1.6.4: 3,383 files, 48.1MB, built in 28 seconds
==> Installing innoextract dependency: cmake
==> Downloading
https://cmake.org/files/v3.9/cmake-3.9.4.tar.gz
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==> ./bootstrap --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.9.4_1 --no-system-libs --para
==> make
innoextract setup_tes_morrowind_goty_2.0.0.7.exe
==> make install
==> Caveats
Emacs Lisp files have been installed to:
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.9.4_1: 2,267 files, 30.4MB, built in 6 minutes
==> Installing innoextract dependency: boost
==> Downloading
https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release ... boost_1_65
==> Downloading from
https://akamai.bintray.com/98/9807a5d16 ... fb522764e0
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==> ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.65.1 --libdir=/usr/local/C
==> ./b2 headers
==> ./b2 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.65.1 --libdir=/usr/local/Cellar/boos
/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.65.1: 12,679 files, 402MB, built in 17 minutes 17 seconds
==> Installing innoextract dependency: xz
==> Downloading
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/proje ... -5.2.3.tar
==> Downloading from
https://10gbps-io.dl.sourceforge.net/pr ... utils/xz-5
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==> ./configure --disable-silent-rules --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/xz/5.2.3
==> make check
==> make install
/usr/local/Cellar/xz/5.2.3: 92 files, 1.5MB, built in 53 seconds
==> Installing innoextract
==> Downloading
https://constexpr.org/innoextract/files ... 1.6.tar.gz
==> Downloading from
https://constexpr.org/innoextract/files ... ct-1.6/inn
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==> cmake . -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE=-DNDEBUG -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE=-DNDEBUG
==> make install
/usr/local/Cellar/innoextract/1.6_2: 7 files, 668.9KB, built in 33 seconds
slarrt-MacBook-Pro:~ slarrt$ innoextract setup_tes_morrowind_goty_2.0.0.7.exe
Could not open file "setup_tes_morrowind_goty_2.0.0.7.exe"
Done with 1 error.
slarrt-MacBook-Pro:~ slarrt$