Has anyone used the “porting kit” to make WINE bottles for battle.net and the w3 games? Porting kit lists them as one-click installs.
I’ve try with crossover and whisky, it didn’t work. with crossover instead of gamemenu I’ve got a black screen, with whisky i can’t even open battlenet (apparently the last update don’t allow whisky and if you have an older version it force you to update). I have a Mac mini M1 16go.
The game does not launch, it’s a blacksreen (mostly due to menu, the game itself used to be fine with wine until version 1.31)
As someone who has no experience with any of this, I am imagining this conversation is not about video games but a bunch of people trying different types of wines and other kinds of alcoholic drinks while sitting around a table as stereotypic french music plays. You know the kind.
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I’m assuming you’re just joking, but WINE is an emulation layer for Linux to enable Windows applications to be run under Linux or Unix. Modern MacOS since the post-PowerPC era is based on Unix. Games tend to be more difficult to get to work as wine doesn’t perfectly imitate all DirectX functions; DirectX being the proprietary graphics subsystem of Windows. Other operating systems use something else, such as OpenGL (open graphics library) instead.
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I dunno, I could use a drink.
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I’m both joking and not. I know what WINE is. But I hear “porting kit to make WINE bottles” and I think “porter” like the beer. Add in “whisky” and you have yourself a drunkard’s dream.
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Only Virtual machine like VMware can run the game on applesilicon ship