Older Windows-Games on Mac (Wine) - posted in General: Hi, I am currently checking out, how to make older windows-games running on mac. I downloaded winskin-winery and began my testing. I know this is about games, but I wanted to relay my experience using an eGPU (using the Razer enclosure and an AMD RX Vega 64) in a professional context. I had a good performance boost using Photoshop and Maya. But if you're using a portable MacBook Pro that you're connecting every day, I wouldn't recommend it. This is the Wine Application Database (AppDB). Here you can get information on application compatibility with Wine. Most of the features of the Application Database require that you have a user account and are logged in. Some of the benefits of membership are: Ability to vote on your favorite applications.
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Still, Nando, an eGPU expert who is an administrator at eGPU.io, recommends researching your desired laptop model for compatibility with graphics card enclosures before buying just to be sure.
Over time, there have been a variety of Third Party Applications that have attempted to make Wine more useful or easier to use.It is important to understand that although these third party applications may make Wine more usable, they are not supported by the Wine project. If you have questions regarding the use of a third party application, please use the support mediums provided by that third party rather than Wine HQ.
Why Third Party Applications Exist
Users want to run applications and sometimes a change to Wine can cause an application to work, but this change cannot be incorporated into Wine for some reason. For example, the change may break Wine for other applications and/or platforms. As such changes to Wine must meet some level of QA. If the change is a dirty hack to Wine's source code that allows an application to run, then the change may end up within Wine's source code only after it has been properly fixed.
In theory, any third party application here is essentially a temporary workaround until underlying bugs in Wine can be fixed properly. As wine improves, parts or all of these third party applications may become obsolete or incompatible with Wine (at least until the third party provides a suitable update).
Current Third Party Applications
The applications below should work with the latest Wine and are still being maintained.
The Crossover series of products are a repackaging with added patches to support more applications and added interfaces on top of WineHQ.
DOSBox is an emulator for legacy x86 PCs, which is particularly useful for old MS-DOS programs since they often used hardware in rigid ways (e.g. using CPU clock cycles directly for timing). Wine uses DOSBox for its virtual 8086 mode (for more details, see Wine Wiki's DOSBox page).
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This module allows unix windows managers to generate crisp desktop icons from the icons embedded in Windows executables.
A Python-based GUI tool that provides managing of registry keys for Wine.
Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface. This support includes managing Windows games (run via Wine).
A tool which is aiming on making it easy for the user to install Windows software, like World of Warcraft, Adobe Photoshop, Guild Wars and much more.
A tool made by the same team as PlayOnLinux but for Mac user.
A tool for installing games, applications, and various redistributable runtimes, e.g. mono, dcom98, fonts. Workarounds to Wine bugs are run automatically. (See also the Winetricks page on this wiki.
A tool to install and run pre- or custom configured apps. It comes with precompiled wine and allows to create fully self-contained .app bundles.
Create wrappers used to make ports that work like Native macOS applications. Uses Winehq portable releases, bundles all needed dylibs and binarys for use with winetricks, always downloads the current version of winetricks.
Using Wineskin technology, Porting Kit can install games and apps compiled for Microsoft Windows® in macOS. It's free, it's simple, it's the Porting Kit.
A Qt GUI for Wine. It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.
A DirectX 1-11 to OpenGL wrapper based on WineD3D.
Obsolete Third Party Applications
These applications are no longer useful, unmaintained, and do not work with current Wine releases. You should not use these.
- osxwinebuilder (for Mac OS X)
A command line script to compile and install Wine and a number of prerequisite packages from source on Mac OS X.
Make wrappers or ports of Windows software to Macs. Wine and custom Xquartz X11 all built in. Pre-built packages, or you can custom compile your own Wine source to use too. Finished products look and work like native Mac apps. File associations, fullscreen, multi-monitors, resolution switching... great for games. LGPL licensed open source.
GUI bottle manager to import, create and clone bottles. Edit registers of the bottles. Set colors according to your GTK theme.
provide an OpenGL-based free replacement for Microsoft Direct3D (useful for things like VirtualBox)
A graphical frontend for Wine that offers prefix management, winetricks integration and access to most of the Wine command-line utilities in one GUI.
- WineXS
A GUI for Wine.
- Pipelight
A tool to use windows only plugins inside Linux browsers.
- Bordeaux
A tool for installing a lot of Windows applications on Linux, Free'BSD, PC-BSD, Open'Solaris & Mac like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Adobe Photoshop, and more.
A menu driven installer for around 90 windows applications. No longer being maintained.
- WineDoors
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A tool to install and configure Wine, as well as many Windows programs.
- Winesetuptk
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A Wine setup tool formerly provided by CodeWeavers, Inc. Wine can now setup its own environment automatically, and Winecfg has now replaced the other limited configuration that winesetuptk allowed.
A graphical user interface for the WINE emulator. It provided an interface for configuring and running MS-Windows applications. It is no longer useful now.
- WineBot
A tool to automate Windows program installation under Wine
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A python-based, command-line replacement for Winecfg. Has not been updated since 2009.
- wisotool
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A tool for automated installs of various Windows programs (downloadable demos and from disk images), including workarounds. It was merged into winetricks.
Free Printable Wine Games
A malware-analyzer that sandboxes Wine on Debian in a QEMU image (remember Wine provides no sandboxing). Windows executables are then loaded into the sandbox, and Wine's function-tracing system is used to detect suspicious behavior.
| Application | Description | Screenshot |
| World of Warcraft 9.0.5 | World of Warcraft (also known as WoW ) is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. World of Warcraft is a 'Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game' (MMORPG) which allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory. | View / Submit Screenshot |
| StarCraft 1.16.1 (Brood War) | In the distant future a small group of human exiles have been doomed to fight for survival on the edge of the galaxy. Through military strength, espionage and deceit, a unified Terran government has maintained an uneasy peace. As resources run short, however, these Confederate nations find themselves looking towards the rich worlds of their alien neighbours, the enigmatic Protoss. To further complicate matters, it seems that a previously unknown and deadly species known only as the Zerg has entered Protoss space and is destroying everything in its path. The time for war has come... | View / Submit Screenshot |
| Fallout 3 1.7 and GOTY | Fallout 3 is the third video game in the Fallout series of post-apocalyptic RPGs. | View / Submit Screenshot |
| Team Fortress 2 Steam | Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the map. | View / Submit Screenshot |
| Adobe Animate Flash CS6 (12.0) | Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Systems. | View / Submit Screenshot |
| Gothic 3 1.x | While the previous games centered around the Valley of Mines and | View / Submit Screenshot |
| Company of Heroes Obsolote Non-Steam | Company of Heroes is a 3D strategical game in the 2nd world war. | View / Submit Screenshot |
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Steam | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls action role-playing video game series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. | View / Submit Screenshot |
| .NET Framework 3.5 | The Microsoft .NET Framework is a development and execution environment that allows different programming languages and libraries to work together seamlessly to create Windows-based applications that are easier to build, manage, deploy, and integrate with other networked systems. | View / Submit Screenshot |
| System Shock 2 2.3 | System Shock 2 is a scary hybrid of an RPG and a first-person shooter. | View / Submit Screenshot |