After many unsuccessful attempts to run the original Baldur's Gate 1 on my M1 Macbook Air using Wineskin, PlayOnMac and even bare-bones Wine I gave up and bought the Enhanced Edition here on GOG (as it includes the classic Baldur's Gate too).

I installed BG: The Original Saga through GOG Galaxy and it just doesn't work. Game doesn't even start.

I tried solutions from these threads:
{Sadly GOG forums told me I can't post any links for now, I will add them ASAP :C}

But none of them works.

So, is there any way to run The Original Saga on M1 Mac with OS X Sonoma?

Download the dmg packages from your library. It runs great on my M1 Mac mini through Rosetta 2.

at the end of the day this game was made to run on Intel so you have to maquiver it

Thanks, I'll try Rosetta 2 then, since Parallels gets my Mac very hot

How did you make it work?
For me:

1) opening the DMG under Rosetta is not an option via "Get Info" - I don't have the option to switch Rosetta on
what I found in the internet seems like the DMG image is never supposed to be open under Rosetta, it's just mounting a disk image

2) opening the app package (the "file" which appears in Applications after installation) with Rosetta is not an option (Get Info - no option)
2) opening the app package in terminal with `arch -x86_64` says it is not an executable file.

Opening GOGLauncher or WineskinLauncher with arch -x86_64 also does not work

happy for any advice how to proceed

I am on Sonoma, M1

Or just get GemRB... Mac Source Ports is the best place in the internet for Mac gamers haha.

https://www.macsourceports.com/game/baldursgate

The Original Saga is 32bit so it simply won't work.

I tried GemRB, it had so many issues that I gave up.