#Wine for mac games how to#
#Wine for mac games .exe#
#Wine for mac games install#
#Wine for mac games zip file#
#Wine for mac games update#

You will land on a text field where you enter the name for the wrapper. That is, your goal is not to create a single wrapper for all your games, but rather one wrapper per game.įrom the main Wineskin Winery window, activate the 'Create a New Blank Wrapper' button. Each wrapper is meant to contain one Windows application and any supporting files that application needs to function. You'll need to make a 'wrapper', which is essentially a simulated Windows environment. Now, let's get to the fun part: making your game run, or at least trying to. Should a game ever require an older engine, you can add that engine here. Once done, the table will no longer be empty. Accept whatever version it offers (mine was 1.7.29, but you may get a newer one). You'll only have to do this once.įinally, activate the 'add' button to the right of the 'engines' table.

#Wine for mac games update#

Let the update do its thing you will land back on the main Wineskin window after everything is done. Activate the 'Update' button and accept the version with which you will be presented. It will display a dialog with an empty 'installed engines' table and a few buttons. Once the app is where you want it, open it. This will not remove any wrappers (see below) you make. Should you ever want to remove it, simply delete the file. You could run the app from anywhere, but for the sake of organization, I recommend putting it in your Applications folder along with all the other apps on your Mac.

#Wine for mac games zip file#

The file you download will be a Zip file just open it with cmd-o, and it will spit out a file called Wineskin Winery.app.

#Wine for mac games .exe#

exe file, you will just need that file if it comes in a folder, as Swamp does, you have to have that folder stored on your Mac somewhere, and not in a compressed format. Finally, you will have to have the game installer or folder of game files handy.

#Wine for mac games install#

Part of this process will require sighted help, as you cannot install a screen reader in a wrapper, so have a sighted person handy who can click through a few installers for you. You'll then have to downloadĪ free app that will let you create a container for your Windows game. What You'll Needįirst, of course, you need a Mac running Snow Leopard or newer. This should work in any OS X version supported by the program we'll be using, and the website currently lists 10.6 Snow Leopard up through 10.10 Yosemite as being supported. I know two other people who have gotten this to work, but I am not certain of their Macs' configurations. I have tested this on my own machine, a 2012 Macbook Air with 4GB of ram and a 1.4GhZ dual core Core I5 processor. If your Mac runs reasonably well already, chances are it will handle audio games just fine.

#Wine for mac games how to#

For example, if you know how to install the speech preferences CPL, or you know of a DLL that will make some games run better, or you have any other ideas, please feel free to correct and enlighten me. If you know more about Wine, and can offer any tips or suggestions, please do so in the comments and I will update this guide. I'm no expert on this, and only just started playing with it. You can install others, but not use them. The only limitation to Sapi speech is that, if your game won't let you choose your preferred Sapi voice, you can't select anything other than the default voice Microsoft Speech SDK comes with. Self-voicing games will work fine, and those that can use Sapi speech will work as well, with an extra step. Second, your game must not rely on a screen reader. That said, it's definitely worth a try, right? Still, don't be surprised if the below steps don't work for your game, or if you can't get your game to run at all. I have no way of testing them all, but the two I have tried worked just fine. Notes and Warningsįirst of all, this won't work with all audio games out there. No Bootcamp, no Windows virtualization, just me, my Mac, and some good wine.

Are you a Mac user, and a fan of audio games? Does it make you angry that there are only a few audio games for the Mac, and that you need Windows just to kill some zombies or play cards? Do you not have access to Windows, and find yourself suffering from game withdrawal? Well, my friends, I have great news: your suffering may be at an end! That's right, I'v been playing my favorite audio game,įor a week now, and I've done it using only my Mac.