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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.

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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?

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Let us know in the comment below!

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The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine is a free software engine which facilitates the creation of visual novels, a form of computer-mediated storytelling. Ren'Py is a portmanteau of ren'ai (恋愛), the Japanese word for 'romantic love', a common element of games made using Ren'Py; and Python, the programming language that Ren'Py runs on. Ren'Py has proved attractive to English-language hobbyists; over 1000 games use the Ren'Py engine, nearly all in English.^[3][4]

Features[edit]

Ren'Py includes the ability to create branching stories, save file systems, rollback to previous points in the story, a variety of scene transitions, DLC, and so on. The engine also allows for movie playback for both full-screen movies and animated sprites, in-engine animation (using the built in 'Animation and Translation Language', or ATL), and full animation and customization of UI elements via 'Screen Language'. Ren'Py scripts have a screenplay-like syntax, and can also include blocks of Python code to allow advanced users to add new features of their own. In addition, tools are included in the engine distribution to obfuscate scripts and archive game assets to mitigate copyright infringement.^[5][6][7][8]

Ren'Py is built on pygame, which is built with Python on SDL. The Ren'Py SDK is officially supported on Windows, recent versions of Mac OS X, and Linux; and can be installed via the package managers of the Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo (in experimental overlay^[9]) Linux distributions. Ren'Py can build games for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android,^[5], OpenBSD^[10], iOS.^[11][5], and HTML5 with Web Assembly.^[5]

Reception[edit]

Ren'Py has been recommended as a video game creation engine by several outlets, including Indie Games Plus, MakeUseOf, and The Guardian.^[12][13][14] It has been used in classes at Carnegie Mellon School of Art,^[15] , Faculty of Art at University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia, and as a tool for information literacy.^[16]

Notable Games[edit]

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References[edit]

1. ^Lin, Maria (December 2005). 'Returning the Love: Three Fans Taking the Next Step'. Animefringe. ISSN1705-3692. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
2. ^'License'. Ren'Py. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
3. ^'Ren'Py Games List'. Ren'Py. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
4. ^QJ Staff (24 November 2007). 'Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine: make your own visual novel, dating sim'. QuickJump. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
5. ^ ^abcd'The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine'. Ren'Py. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
6. ^'Writing Visual Novels with Ren'Py: The Ren'Py Tutorial'. Ren'Py. Retrieved 5 Oct 2019.
7. ^'Building Distributions'. Ren'Py. Retrieved 5 Oct 2019.
8. ^'Why Ren'Py?'. Ren'Py. Retrieved 5 Oct 2019.
9. ^'Installing Ren'Py on Gentoo Linux'.
10. ^'games/renpy'. OpenBSD Ports at ports.su. Retrieved 5 Oct 2019.
11. ^'Ren'Py 6.99'. Ren'Py. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
12. ^D., Konstantinos (8 May 2012). 'Indie Tools: Ren'Py'. Indie Games Plus. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
13. ^Wiesehan, Robert (7 July 2014). 'Learn To Make Your Own Visual Novels With Ren'Py, Or Play One Of These'. MakeUseOf. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
14. ^Stuart, Keith (20 March 2014). 'How to get into the games industry – an insiders' guide'. The Guardian. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
15. ^'Experimental Game Design'. mycours.es. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
16. ^Sullivan, Dean; Critten, Jessica (2014-11-01). 'Adventures in Research Creating a video game textbook for an information literacy course'. College & Research Libraries News. 75 (10): 570–573. ISSN0099-0086.

External links[edit]

• Official website