Oct 29, 2019 Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac's hard drive. Read: Best way to run Windows on a Mac. How do you play your Windows games on Mac? Let us know in the comment below! Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options. Jul 05, 2017 How to Play Windows PC Games on a Mac. Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman Updated July 5, 2017, 12:24pm EDT “PC gaming” has traditionally meant Windows gaming, but it doesn’t have to. More new games support Mac OS X than ever, and you can play any Windows game on your Mac. Macs with slower integrated graphics won’t be able to run. If you're stuck on a mac but want to play the latest home made RPGs I have found a perfect (quick) solution. As with all DIY tutorials, back up files before attempting this: Download a Windows copy of the game you want to play Download the long gone days demo from itch.io (I'm not sure about the steam version)/ or any other RPG MV games that work on mac.
The Mac has plenty of games, but it'll always get the short end of the stick compared to Windows. If you want to play the latest games on your Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows ... or do you?
There are a few ways you can play Windows games on your Mac without having to dedicate a partition to Boot Camp or giving away vast amounts of hard drive space to a virtual machine app like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Here are a few other options for playing Windows games on your Mac without the hassle or expense of having to install Windows.
GeForce Now
PC gaming on Mac? Yes you can, thanks to Nvidia's GeForce Now. The service allows users to play PC games from Steam or Battle.net on macOS devices. Better still, the graphic power of these games resides on Nvidia's servers. The biggest drawback: the service remains in beta, and there's been no announcement when the first full release is coming or what a monthly subscription will cost.
For now, at least, the service is free to try and enjoy. All supported GeForce NOW titles work on Macs, and yes, there are plenty of them already available!
The Wine Project
The Mac isn't the only computer whose users have wanted to run software designed for Windows. More than 20 years ago, a project was started to enable Windows software to work on POSIX-compliant operating systems like Linux. It's called The Wine Project, and the effort continues to this day. OS X is POSIX-compliant, too (it's Unix underneath all of Apple's gleam, after all), so Wine will run on the Mac also.
Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's been around the Unix world for a very long time, and because OS X is a Unix-based operating system, it works on the Mac too.
As the name suggests, Wine isn't an emulator. The easiest way to think about it is as a compatibility layer that translates Windows Application Programming Interface (API) calls into something that the Mac can understand. So when a game says 'draw a square on the screen,' the Mac does what it's told.
You can use straight-up Wine if you're technically minded. It isn't for the faint of heart, although there are instructions online, and some kind souls have set up tutorials, which you can find using Google. Wine doesn't work with all games, so your best bet is for you to start searching for which games you'd like to play and whether anyone has instructions to get it working on the Mac using Wine.
Note: At the time of this writing, The Wine Project does not support macOS 10.15 Catalina.
CrossOver Mac
CodeWeavers took some of the sting out of Wine by making a Wine-derived app called CrossOver Mac. CrossOver Mac is Wine with specialized Mac support. Like Wine, it's a Windows compatibility layer for the Mac that enables some games to run.
CodeWeavers has modified the source code to Wine, made some improvements to configuration to make it easier, and provided support for their product, so you shouldn't be out in the cold if you have trouble getting things to run.
My experience with CrossOver — like Wine — is somewhat hit or miss. Its list of actual supported games is pretty small. Many other unsupported games do, in fact work — the CrossOver community has many notes about what to do or how to get them to work, which are referenced by the installation program. Still, if you're more comfortable with an app that's supported by a company, CrossOver may be worth a try. What's more, a free trial is available for download, so you won't be on the hook to pay anything to give it a shot.
Boxer
If you're an old-school gamer and have a hankering to play DOS-based PC games on your Mac, you may have good luck with Boxer. Boxer is a straight-up emulator designed especially for the Mac, which makes it possible to run DOS games without having to do any configuring, installing extra software, or messing around in the Mac Terminal app.
With Boxer, you can drag and drop CD-ROMs (or disk images) from the DOS games you'd like to play. It also wraps them into self-contained 'game boxes' to make them easy to play in the future and gives you a clean interface to find the games you have installed.
Boxer is built using DOSBox, a DOS emulation project that gets a lot of use over at GOG.com, a commercial game download service that houses hundreds of older PC games that work with the Mac. So if you've ever downloaded a GOG.com game that works using DOSBox, you'll have a basic idea of what to expect.
Some final thoughts
In the end, programs like the ones listed above aren't the most reliable way to play Windows games on your Mac, but they do give you an option.
Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac's hard drive.
How do you play your Windows games on Mac?
Let us know in the comment below!
Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options.
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This simple guide will show you how to play the majority of ABDL games on FoxTaleTimes if you don't have a windows computer. This should allow a lot more users to be able to experience these wonderful games.
Step 1: Install WINE. There's already plenty of guides on how to do this. So I'll simply provide the official link to the WINE HQ website. You should always install the staging or beta version. If you experience crashes or errors in the stable version, you will not be able to report your findings. I recommend the staging version since it allows features that the beta doesn't have. However, you won't need those staging features in order to run RPG Maker games.https://www.winehq.org/download
Step 2: Disable WINEGStreamer. This can create crash issues and therefore make you unable to play VX/Ace games. I'll provide a photo graph to make this process easier. First of all, run the following command in your terminal 'winecfg.' This is assuming you are using Linux. I am unsure how you run winecfg on mac but you should easily be able to find a guide. Notice that I am using a virtual desktop, that will be explained in step 3.
Shoutout to the wine community for helping me on this issue. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42456
Online Rpg Maker Games
Step 3: If you're trying to run an MV game then read this. Otherwise skip this step. MV games have an error where they will black screen. You will have to enable a virtual desktop in order to fix the issue.Another shoutout to the WINE community. No seriously, this is the most helpful community on the Internet you will will ever encounter. This issue was reported in another game called 'Syberia.'
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=23861
Step 4: Help I'm running a Japanese game. In the unlikely event that you encounter a Japanese game on FoxTaleTimes, Linux comes with a locale emulator built in. Unlike Windows. Run the following command in the Linux Terminal. 'LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine /path/to/game/game.exe' You will have to run Japanese games from the terminal or create a script. Unfortunately, I am not a mac user, so I can't provide much information on the subject.
Step 5: Install the RTP's. You will have to ask the developer what version of RPG maker they use in order to install the correct one. No fancy setup is required. Just run the exe files in WINE and you are good to go. http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/download/add ... e-packages
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