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Whisky 🥃 | A new app wrapping Apple's recently-announced Gaming Porting Kit to run your Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs. (self.macgaming)
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You may have seen the WWDC news about Apple's new Game Porting Kit , which among other things, can run Windows/DirectX 12 games, ostensibly to let developers test drive their games to encourage them to port to macOS.

Fortunately for us, said tool is actually built on WINE/Crossover, Apple forked it and built a bunch of patches to map DirectX onto Metal.

Introducing Whisky, an open-source app that wraps the Game Porting Kit much like Crossover wraps WINE, allowing you to run many Windows games that previously didn't work with such a setup.

You need to be running the macOS Sonoma beta to actually use this. Here's how to do that.

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[–] akhenaten0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Great, fantastic! But… if it’s more potent wine, shouldn’t it be Brandy? Or perhaps Port?

[–] korreckj328@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Has anyone checked if this is any different from crossover betas?

[–] j2sun@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for positing this. This is exactly what I'm looking for