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How can I salvage my 32 bit games with Catalina? Partition my drive? External drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1837260" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Don’t blame Apple. They’ve long been firing warning shots about dropping 32-bit compatibility for over 2 years now. The communities for DOSBox and Wineskin/Crossover have been warning people all this time also. </p><p></p><p>Luckily, there is hope on the horizon for Windows-based games, and solutions NOW for DOS-based games. You can get 64-bit versions of DOSBox and Boxer (which is based on DOSBox but is more Mac-like) that will run DOS games under Catalina just fine. I use Boxer and can attest to that. Link below to where to download Boxer 64-bit. </p><p><a href="https://thec0de.com/64-bit-version-of-boxer-for-osx-catalina-10-15/" target="_blank">64-bit Version of Boxer for OSX Catalina 10.15 – thec0de.com</a></p><p></p><p>As for Windows games, Codeweavers now has a beta version of Crossover 19 that has support for running 32-bit processes in a 64-bit wrapper. Their blog talks about what they are doing to make it work. Once they are out of beta, we’ll see their work trickle out to Wineskin and Porting Kit. </p><p><a href="https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/11/18/crossover-19-is-progressing-well-and-is-now-in-beta" target="_blank">CodeWeavers Blogs | Jeremy White | CrossOver 19 is progressing well and is now in beta! | CodeWeavers</a></p><p></p><p>For now, you can dual-boot either Windows or Mojave. Or purchase Crossover and get the beta.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I wouldn’t dual boot off an external drive unless it’s USB-C or Thunderbolt. The performance would be very poor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1837260, member: 38864"] Don’t blame Apple. They’ve long been firing warning shots about dropping 32-bit compatibility for over 2 years now. The communities for DOSBox and Wineskin/Crossover have been warning people all this time also. Luckily, there is hope on the horizon for Windows-based games, and solutions NOW for DOS-based games. You can get 64-bit versions of DOSBox and Boxer (which is based on DOSBox but is more Mac-like) that will run DOS games under Catalina just fine. I use Boxer and can attest to that. Link below to where to download Boxer 64-bit. [URL="https://thec0de.com/64-bit-version-of-boxer-for-osx-catalina-10-15/"]64-bit Version of Boxer for OSX Catalina 10.15 – thec0de.com[/URL] As for Windows games, Codeweavers now has a beta version of Crossover 19 that has support for running 32-bit processes in a 64-bit wrapper. Their blog talks about what they are doing to make it work. Once they are out of beta, we’ll see their work trickle out to Wineskin and Porting Kit. [URL="https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/11/18/crossover-19-is-progressing-well-and-is-now-in-beta"]CodeWeavers Blogs | Jeremy White | CrossOver 19 is progressing well and is now in beta! | CodeWeavers[/URL] For now, you can dual-boot either Windows or Mojave. Or purchase Crossover and get the beta. EDIT: I wouldn’t dual boot off an external drive unless it’s USB-C or Thunderbolt. The performance would be very poor. [/QUOTE]
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