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Whisky is no longer actively maintained

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183 points ahamez | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.33s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[09 Apr 25 12:41 UTC] No.43631399[source]▶
Does something like Whisky work in the new macOS Apple Silicon world? I assume its quite a bit slower to simulate Windows while at the same time translating x86 to Apple Silicon. I ask because this would be a justified break from this project, it's kind of a nightmare setup, you're better off just buying a $300 Windows laptop at Walmart or something.
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1. fastball ◴[09 Apr 25 12:49 UTC] No.43631470[source]▶
That is where Apple's GPTK (Game Porting Toolkit) came into play, and why Whiskey was popular at all. It allows for somewhat seamless interop between Wine and D3DMetal, which is an Apple translation layer from DirectX 11/12 instructions directly to Metal (Apple's Graphics API). Given that the majority of the cycles for video games are consumed by these graphics APIs, having that direct translation layer allows for fairly performant gameplay on Apple Silicon macs.