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Wine serves as a bridge between Windows and Unix based systems.
It creates a wrapper, allowing you to run apps from within.
Here is how it’s possible for you to run Windows apps on a Mac using Wine.
What’s a Wrapper?
In some cases a wrapper is so efficient that developers just use it, instead of creating dedicated ports.
However, its efficacy is far from 100 percent.
That is whyBootcampis still a popular option.
What’s Wineskin?
Wineskin is, in our experience, the most efficient wrapper, created specifically for OS X.
Also, it is free to use.
We like free things.
How does Wineskin work?
It is a free to use app, very easy to manage.
We will be illustrating its use with the free to download game Mari0, byStabyourself.
Once installed, start it up.
After starting the app, you will notice that there is a “New Engines Available” notification.
We need an engine before we get started.
Under the “Installed Engines” window, there is a + sign.
select it and you will be taken to an “Add Engine” window.
From the drop-down list, go for the latest version available and click “Download and Install.”
Now, on to the meat of things.
select “Create New Blank Wrapper.”
It will launch a window asking you to name it.
They are important, so go ahead and install them both.
Once the the installers finish downloading, it will create your wrapper.
By default, it is stored in Applications > Wineskin > [your wrapper].
Then it will offer to take you to your installed wrapper.
Right now, there is nothing in this wrapper.
Launching it will do nothing.
Go to your wrapper.
Right click and “Show Package Contents.”
Here, you will find the “Wineskin” app right under Contents and a shortcut to Drive_C.
bring up the wineskin app.
It will take you to the launch utility.
Let’s go with the installation first.
hit “Install Software.”
It will show up in your launchpad and will run exactly like any other Mac app.
Through this finder window, find and ‘choose’ your folder.
choose Advanced and select “browse” to find your newly copied folder’s exe file.
you’re able to take it for a “Test Run” to see if it works.
There is a workaround for that.
That ought to do it, give it a whirl, and let us know how it went.
