Whisky development ends on macOS to help Wine flourish
Whisky's developer has announced all further work on the app has ended, closing off one way to play Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs.
Chip is a 30-year Apple industry veteran, is author of 18 commercial Mac software products, and is a former Apple and Sony employee. He began hacking away on Apple computers on the Apple II+ in high school in the mid 1980's, then moved on to the Mac in the early 90's. In a previous life he created the game developer audio tools for Playstation 2 at Sony, and worked on the New World OpenFirmware found in late 90's Macs.
Whisky's developer has announced all further work on the app has ended, closing off one way to play Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs.
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