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Wine Games For Mac Os
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Name: Wine – Run Windows applications (formerly Darwine)
Version: 2.0
Released: January 24, 2017
Mac Platform: Intel
OS Version: OS X 10.5 or later

Requirement: X11 or XQuartz

Includes: Serial

Web Site: https://www.winehq.org/

Overview
Free and open source implementation of the Windows API designed to help you seamlessly and effortlessly run Windows programs on your Mac

NOTE: Unofficial Wine binaries for Mac OS X are available on the Wine.app entry (compiled by Mike Kronenberg) and on the Darwine entry (compiled by the Darwine team).

Running Windows applications on your Mac is not impossible and there are various solutions to complete the task. The first idea that comes to mind is to actually install a Windows operating on your Mac by using Boot Camp but that means that you must restart your computer to switch between the operating systems.

On the other hand, you can choose to create a virtual machine via different emulators and run the apps natively but that might prove to be time consuming to set up and a bit demanding on the resources side.

Run Windows programs seamlessly on your Mac

Wine, which stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, takes a different approach: since Mac OS X is POSIX compliant, Wine translates the Windows API calls into POSIX calls in order to be understood by Apple’s operating system. The conversion is done on-the-fly and enables you to integrate Windows applications into your workflow in no time.

Support for a wide array of Windows programs

Wine is a free software and volunteers work to provide out-of-the-box support for different applications. You can find which apps are Wine compatible, submit requests, view statistics and much more Wine Application Database page.

The Wine developers provide the source code which you can compile yourself or you can use some of the unofficial binaries. Probably the most popular Wine binary release is Mike Kronenberg’s Wine.app which you can find Wine.app page. Additionally, you can use the Darwine team build which can be downloaded from the Darwine page.

Use Windows app without restarting your Mac

Wine is great if you need to run Windows native applications on your Mac without having to use Boot Camp and restart your system. Setting up virtual machines takes slightly more time, more resources and you might have issues if you need the Windows app to interact with your Mac OS X.

Wine simply translates the commands to a language that Mac OS X understands: this way the resources usage is reduced and you can run apps right out of the box.

What’s New in Version 2.0:
Text and Fonts
・More DirectWrite features are implemented, including:
・Drawing of underlines
・Renderer sees drawing effect associated with text segment
・Support for color fonts in COLR/CPAL format
・Initial font fallback support, builtin data for some of CJK ranges
・Support for Wine-specific font replacement registry settings
・Improved font metrics resolution in case of incomplete or ambiguous font data
・Support for EUDC font collection based on current registry settings
・Font embedding in PDF files is supported
・The RichEdit control supports bulleted and numbered lists
・Bold glyphs can be synthesized also for bitmap fonts
・Character tables are based on version 9.0.0 of the Unicode Standard

Wine Games For Mac Os

Graphics
・Window, bitmap and GDI DC render targets are implemented in Direct2D
・A wide range of optimizations make the DIB engine noticeably faster
・GDI graphic paths are reimplemented for better compatibility; they are also supported with enhanced metafiles
・Gradients are supported in GDI enhanced metafiles
・Metafiles are better supported in GdiPlus
・The macOS graphics driver supports a high-resolution (“Retina”) rendering mode; it can be enabled by setting “RetinaMode” to “Y” under HKCUSoftwareWineMac Driver

User Interface
・The clipboard support is reimplemented for better compatibility; copy-and-paste of HTML text is also improved; drag-and-drop works more smoothly
・In desktop mode, the taskbar displays running applications and allows switching between them
・Version 4 of the system tray notification protocol is implemented
・In desktop mode, some less common display resolutions like 640×400 and 1280×960 are supported
・More user interface elements scale correctly with high-DPI screens

Direct3D
・More Direct3D 10 and 11 features are implemented, including:
・Several more shader model 4 and 5 shader instructions
・Several more resource formats
・Integer vertex shader inputs
・Typeless resources
・sRGB read/write support
・Depth and stencil clears
・Depth-only draws
・Array textures
・Index buffer offsets
・Unordered access views
・Primitive restart
・The WineD3D graphics card database recognizes more graphics cards; when available, the GLX_MESA_query_renderer GLX extension is used to provide more accurate information about the graphics card
・The (system) memory layout of texture resources more closely matches Windows; this affects applications that write beyond the bounds of a MIP-level, like for example League of Legends
・The implementation of non-maskable multisample anti-aliasing is more correct; in particular, when the ARB_internalformat_query extension is available, only quality levels corresponding to specific sample counts supported by the OpenGL implementation are reported to the application; previously, reporting a large number of non-maskable multisample anti-aliasing quality levels would break some applications
・Direct3D 11 feature levels are supported
・Retrieving a GDI device context from DXGI surfaces is implemented; this is used for rendering to DXGI surfaces using GDI
・More DXGI swapchain methods are implemented, particularly those relating to switching display modes and switching to and from fullscreen
・When ARB_clip_control and ARB_viewport_array are both supported, position fixups are slightly more efficient
・The APPLE_client_storage extension is no longer used; it caused more problems than it solved
・New HKCUSoftwareWineDirect3D registry keys:
・”CheckFloatConstants” (REG_SZ); setting this to “enabled” enables additional run-time bounds checking on relatively addressed shader constant access; this helps some (broken) applications, but comes at a performance cost
・”MaxShaderModelHS”, “MaxShaderModelDS” and “MaxShaderModelCS” (REG_DWORD); these limit the maximum supported shader model for hull, domain, and compute shaders respectively, analogous to the existing “MaxShaderModelVS”, “MaxShaderModelGS”, “MaxShaderModelPS” keys; note that these shader types are new in shader model 5, so setting this to anything lower than 5 will effectively disable them
・”SampleCount” (REG_DWORD); setting this registry key will force the multisample anti-aliasing sample count to the specified value for swapchain render targets; this allows anti-aliasing to be forced on applications that do no