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banqjls ◴[] No.43631804[source]
How can you run old 32-bit, directx 9 games on apple silicon? Is there any solution that is flawless? One of the things that stops me from buying a modern Mac.
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1. todd3834 ◴[] No.43631827[source]
I imagine a virtual machine would be able to handle it just fine. Try VirtualBox
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2. mdaniel ◴[] No.43631945[source]
Unless you know something I don't, VirtualBox isn't qemu's CPU emulation - it's only virtualization for the current CPU. So, great if you want an alternative to Virtualization.framework but it's not going to run Windows 7 on Apple Silicon

And, even if it did run effectively under Rosetta, its management interface won't even let you select a non-arm64 guest: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/topics/Introduction.html#h...