The Mac has plenty of games, but it'll always get the short end of the stick compared to Windows. If you want to play the latest games on your Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows ... or do you?

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Jun 08, 2011  The former runs PowerPC-native games while the later mainly does.really. old 68k-based Mac games. SheepShaver gives you, essentially, a virtual machine for a PowerPC-based Mac, although it will require some effort to track down the bits you need (ROMs and an appropriate disk image) to get going. (Edited because I'm an r-tard.). Aug 08, 2018  Out of all the AGEOD games, I feel Civil War II does the best job at portraying a holistic, strategic view of actually fighting a war. I like how you have to put a lot of thought into political and economic decisions, managing local loyalties/military control, funding rebels/disrupting the enemy, etc.

There are a few ways you can play Windows games on your Mac without having to dedicate a partition to Boot Camp or giving away vast amounts of hard drive space to a virtual machine app like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Here are a few other options for playing Windows games on your Mac without the hassle or expense of having to install Windows.

GeForce Now

PC gaming on Mac? Yes you can, thanks to Nvidia's GeForce Now. The service allows users to play PC games from Steam or Battle.net on macOS devices. Better still, the graphic power of these games resides on Nvidia's servers. The biggest drawback: the service remains in beta, and there's been no announcement when the first full release is coming or what a monthly subscription will cost.

For now, at least, the service is free to try and enjoy. All supported GeForce NOW titles work on Macs, and yes, there are plenty of them already available!

The Wine Project

The Mac isn't the only computer whose users have wanted to run software designed for Windows. More than 20 years ago, a project was started to enable Windows software to work on POSIX-compliant operating systems like Linux. It's called The Wine Project, and the effort continues to this day. OS X is POSIX-compliant, too (it's Unix underneath all of Apple's gleam, after all), so Wine will run on the Mac also.

Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's been around the Unix world for a very long time, and because OS X is a Unix-based operating system, it works on the Mac too.

As the name suggests, Wine isn't an emulator. The easiest way to think about it is as a compatibility layer that translates Windows Application Programming Interface (API) calls into something that the Mac can understand. So when a game says 'draw a square on the screen,' the Mac does what it's told.

You can use straight-up Wine if you're technically minded. It isn't for the faint of heart, although there are instructions online, and some kind souls have set up tutorials, which you can find using Google. Wine doesn't work with all games, so your best bet is for you to start searching for which games you'd like to play and whether anyone has instructions to get it working on the Mac using Wine.

Note: At the time of this writing, The Wine Project does not support macOS 10.15 Catalina.

CrossOver Mac

CodeWeavers took some of the sting out of Wine by making a Wine-derived app called CrossOver Mac. CrossOver Mac is Wine with specialized Mac support. Like Wine, it's a Windows compatibility layer for the Mac that enables some games to run.

CodeWeavers has modified the source code to Wine, made some improvements to configuration to make it easier, and provided support for their product, so you shouldn't be out in the cold if you have trouble getting things to run.

My experience with CrossOver — like Wine — is somewhat hit or miss. Its list of actual supported games is pretty small. Many other unsupported games do, in fact work — the CrossOver community has many notes about what to do or how to get them to work, which are referenced by the installation program. Still, if you're more comfortable with an app that's supported by a company, CrossOver may be worth a try. What's more, a free trial is available for download, so you won't be on the hook to pay anything to give it a shot.

Boxer

If you're an old-school gamer and have a hankering to play DOS-based PC games on your Mac, you may have good luck with Boxer. Boxer is a straight-up emulator designed especially for the Mac, which makes it possible to run DOS games without having to do any configuring, installing extra software, or messing around in the Mac Terminal app.

With Boxer, you can drag and drop CD-ROMs (or disk images) from the DOS games you'd like to play. It also wraps them into self-contained 'game boxes' to make them easy to play in the future and gives you a clean interface to find the games you have installed.

Boxer is built using DOSBox, a DOS emulation project that gets a lot of use over at GOG.com, a commercial game download service that houses hundreds of older PC games that work with the Mac. So if you've ever downloaded a GOG.com game that works using DOSBox, you'll have a basic idea of what to expect.

Some final thoughts

In the end, programs like the ones listed above aren't the most reliable way to play Windows games on your Mac, but they do give you an option.

Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac's hard drive.

How do you play your Windows games on Mac?

Let us know in the comment below!

Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options.

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AGEod (AGE Online Distribution) is a developer and publisher of PC games. The company is incorporated in France and has its head office located in Grenoble. The company specializes in developing history oriented strategy video games built with its proprietary Adaptive Game Engine (AGE), and also publishes third-party titles. AGEod's main goal is offering to players original, cultural, and gaming creations developed by small independent studios and producers that have trouble finding an outlet within the traditional organization of the market.^[1]

History[edit]

AGEod was founded by Philippe Thibaut (designer of board game Europa Universalis, Pax Romana and Great Invasions) and Philippe Malacher (AGE engine creator) in 2005.^[2]

The first game distributed by AGEod was Birth of America, a turn-based strategy game about the French and Indian War that took place in the Seven Years' War, and also the American War of Independence. The second game, Ageod's American Civil War, is also a realistic historical turn-based strategy game about the American Civil War including political and economic options. The third game, Napoleon's Campaigns, is the successor of 'Birth of America' with a tight focus on strategy during the Napoleonic Wars.In 2008, AGEod released Birth of America 2: Wars in America, which expanded the previous game Birth of America by a larger map, new rules, and new scenarios and campaigns.

On 17 December 2009, AGEod was acquired by Paradox Interactive.^[3] In 2012, Paradox France was split away from Paradox Development Studio to work exclusively on games utilizing the AGE engine, with full autonomy. Development of Napoleon's Campaigns II was shifted from being partially developed by Paradox Development Studio to being solely developed by them, utilizing the Clausewitz engine.^[4]

Adaptive Game Engine (AGE)[edit]

For its own titles, AGEod created and further developed AGE, a generic platform for turn-based strategy games, that is expandable and adaptable to different game scenarios. The engine comes in three main versions which in simplest terms determines the breadth and depth of the game which is built upon it. The scope may be heavily oriented towards a traditional war game (e.g., Birth of America, Napoleon's Campaigns, Birth of America 2: Wars in America) or much higher level with elements of country management, diplomacy, resource management (e.g., Ageod's American Civil War), and grand strategy considerations (e.g., Pride of Nations). The modularity of AGE allows AGEod to back port many features of recent releases to existing titles, practising a patch policy that goes beyond mere bug fixing.

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Games[edit]

As developer[edit]

• Birth of America (2006)
• Ageod's American Civil War - The Blue and the Gray (2007)
• Napoleon's Campaigns (2007)
• Birth of America 2: Wars in America (2008)
• World War One : La Grande Guerre 14-18 (2008)
• World War One Gold (2010) [ Remaster of WW1 : La Grande Guerre 14-18 ]
• Rise of Prussia (2010)
• Revolution Under Siege (2010)
• Pride of Nations (2011)
  • The Spanish-American War 1898 (2011)
  • The American Civil War 1862 (2011)
  • The Franco-Prussian War 1870 (2011)
  • The Scramble for Africa (2012)
• Alea Jacta Est (video game) (2012)
  • Birth of Rome (2013)
  • The Spartacus Revolt 73 BC (2013)
  • The Cantabrian Wars - 29BC (2013)
  • Parthian Wars (2013)
  • Hannibal: Terror of Rome (2014)
• Ageod's American Civil War II (2013)
  • The Bloody Road South (2014)
• Rise of Prussia Gold (2013) [ Remaster of Rise of Prussia ]
• Espana 1936 (video game) (2013)
• To End All Wars (video game) (2014)
  • Breaking the Deadlock (2015)
• Revolution Under Siege Gold (2015) [ Remaster of Revolution Under Siege]
• Thirty Years' War (video game) (2015)
• Wars of Napoleon (2015)
• English Civil War (2017)
• Wars of Succession (2018)
• Field of Glory: Empires (2019)

As publisher[edit]

• Great Invasions (2006)
• Wicked Defence (2007)
• Montjoie! (2007)

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References[edit]

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1. ^http://www.birth-of-america2.com/ageod/eu/quisommesnous.phpArchived 13 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved on 14 July 2008)
2. ^http://www.birth-of-america2.com/ageod/eu/quisommesnous.phpArchived 13 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved on 14 July 2008)
3. ^'Paradox Interactive Acquires Strategy Developer AGEOD'. Paradox Interactive Forums.
4. ^'Paradox Interactive & Paradox France'. Paradox Interactive Forums.

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