Posted November 08, 2017
Source: https://www.paulthetall.com/future-wine-mac-wine-dead-mac-18-months/
Summary: MacOS will be switching entirely to 64-bit and will no longer support 32-bit. Therefore, all 32-bit windows games will no longer be playable with WINE. This will probably be coming by 10.14 if not sooner.
In addition, I believe Boxer (which runs DOS games) will no longer run because the underlying DOSBox is not 64-bit. I assume this would also apply to many native mac games too. EDIT/UPDATE: A 64-bit Boxer should be entirely possible, so DOS games will likely still be able to be played.
Therefore GOG will no longer be able to support any newer MacOS at all for all games which are not 64-bit.
It looks to me like the only solutions are to not upgrade to a new MacOS, or bootcamp.
I don't know about all this technical stuff, I'm just going by what I'm reading, but it looks like retro gaming on a Mac will be totally lost :'(.
Summary: MacOS will be switching entirely to 64-bit and will no longer support 32-bit. Therefore, all 32-bit windows games will no longer be playable with WINE. This will probably be coming by 10.14 if not sooner.
In addition, I believe Boxer (which runs DOS games) will no longer run because the underlying DOSBox is not 64-bit. I assume this would also apply to many native mac games too. EDIT/UPDATE: A 64-bit Boxer should be entirely possible, so DOS games will likely still be able to be played.
Therefore GOG will no longer be able to support any newer MacOS at all for all games which are not 64-bit.
It looks to me like the only solutions are to not upgrade to a new MacOS, or bootcamp.
I don't know about all this technical stuff, I'm just going by what I'm reading, but it looks like retro gaming on a Mac will be totally lost :'(.
Post edited November 08, 2017 by 01kipper