Running Windows games on Mac just got more expensive

If you want to run Windows game on your Mac, you’ve so far had two options – the free Whisky app, and the paid CrossOver one. Sadly, but understandably, Whisky is now going away … If you want to run general Windows apps on your Apple Silicon Mac, you can do so using VMware Fusion Pro or Parallels Desktop. But if it’s Windows games you want to run, then that’s a far more demanding business, and most people have opted for the more specialist Wine-based apps Whisky or CrossOver. Whisky had the advantage of being free, but its developer says he is now ceasing to update it, meaning it will likely quickly prove useless for new games. Isaac Marovitz says that it has just gotten too hard to support, and he no longer enjoys it. I lost interest in the project. Running it is incredibly time-consuming, and as I’m still a student and also not being paid for work on Whisky it becomes hard to justify working on it if I no longer enjoy it […] Developing Wine is hard. The codebase is exclusively wr ... Read full article.