I'm on a mac.
Okay, I don't know how, but I've managed to actually open Red Alien, even after homebrew telling me there were errors installing the dependencies and whatnot. But now that I have it open, it's the strangest thing -- it's like I have a program editor open or something. I try to click File > Load ROM and the button doesn't work. It highlights it blue and I can actually change the text from "Load ROM" to whatever I want, like "Blueberry Pie." What the heck is going on? This is the same for every single button I try to click in the program. There are also several "Type here" options, for whatever reason. I'm so confused.
EDIT: Wait, wait, wait. I just realized I opened asc.ui and it opened a Designer program. That's why I can "design" the program. Well, what the heck. How ironic that I can see the program right in front of me, and can edit certain properties of it, yet can't even open it to use myself.
EDIT 2: Okay, well I tried opening asc.qt, and lo and behold it seems that the issue is I don't have Pyqt5 installed. Well, I'm stumped. I tried installing Pyqt using homebrew but it gave me errors. I tried downloading all the dependencies manually from sourceforge, but when I unzip them I don't see an installer file or anything. Isn't there any other way to install the blasted things manually since homebrew is acting like a crying child?
EDIT 3: Okay, I've installed "pip," Python's package manager. I think the only thing I need to do now is figure out how to install PyQt5. Yeah, I'm stumped there. Why is it that the only way to do all this stuff is with Terminal? Gosh. It's like it was intentionally made complicated. Maybe I'm just dumb???
EDIT 4: Here's the error that Python gives me when I try to open asc-qt, if it matters:
When I try to make Terminal run the configure file for PyQt (which was the instruction in the readme file) it told me, "Error: Use the --qmake argument to explicitly specify a working Qt qmake."
Well, I have no idea what that even means. I swear, could this road get any bumpier?