If you want to play games on the Mac, there is a wide selection
of games you can buy and play on the Mac. Steam and several games
Oct 29, 2019 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.
If the bulk of the games you play on the Mac are Steam games, your best bet before you fire up your favorite games—or before you hit the road with your Mac—is to let Steam do everything it. Apparently, you can download a Windows program onto your MAC and can switch over to a Windows interface on your MAC in order to play PC titles. If I install something like Boot Camp onto a MAC, hold option and select Windows, then the Mac goes into PC mode.
are available through it for the Mac.
There is also a software called Wine to run Windows software
directly on Macs. It is a bit difficult to use on macs, so its
better to use a Mac program that uses Wine. Crossover is a popular
choice, though it is not free. Some free choices that use Wine, is
Wineskin and WineBottler. Wineskin was designed originally with
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games in mind and usually gives a much better gaming experience for
fullscreen gaming. WineBottler uses Apples X11.app which has
several limitations, but can be upgraded some by manually
installing XQuartz. Wineskin has everything built in that is
needed.
You can do that, or use Apple Bootcamp, which will let you split
up your hard drive on your mac and install Windows. This will let
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you boot into either Windows, or Mac OS X (not both at the same
time), and then when you are in Windows, your mac is basically like
a Windows computer.
There are also Virtual machines like VMWare Fusion and Parallels
that let you run a virtual computer on top of Mac OS X and run
Windows inside of that. It uses Wine technology for the graphics,
so it has some potential, but with the overhead of running a whole
virtual machine and a real licensed copy of Windows, it's gaming
performance is usually always the lowest of any of these
choices.