Wednesday 4 November 2020 at 12:41
Why using PlayOnMac rather than other solution? There are many other ways to run Windows program on a Mac. Here is a comparative table to understand the advantages of our solution. Good news is that it also supports running 32bit windows apps on macOS Catalina. Installing apps with it is a little more complicated than with commercial CrossOver but it is free and worked with 2 apps which I tested.
Age of Conan: Unchained
Allods Online Anarchy Online (new engine client) Creative Destruction (a Fortnite clone) Trove War Robots (Steam)
Saturday 4 July 2020 at 17:36
PlayOnMac 4.4 has been released. It now supports macOS 10.15
Feel free to report any bug you encounter.
Monday 29 June 2020 at 15:21
Some functions added to support some DXVK versions (the list is in our Functions list).
DXVK ('Direct X to Vulkan') can make the 3D rendering faster, and can fix some compatibility issues between Wine and DirectX.
Dadu042
Thursday 4 June 2020 at 21:38
The freemium game Rules of Survival (a clone of PUBG) is currently playable on PlayOnLinux !.
Dadu042
Best mac music enhancer app. Thursday 7 November 2019 at 10:09
More than 25 free casual games added, mainly for POL/POM v4.3.4, but some are OK with POL v4.2.12
Most these games are downloadable automatically by the scripts.
Note: latests scripts added and modified are listed in this area (Application tests) of the forum.
Dadu042
Tuesday 15 October 2019 at 10:45
Warning: PlayOnMac does not work with macOS Catalina (v10.15) and next, because it drop 32bits support.
Latest news in our forum.
Dadu042
Sunday 9 June 2019 at 6:23
PlayOnLinux 4: most of the free games have been tested and repaired.
Note 1 : Some of these games are downloadable automatically.
Note 2 : The free games installables appears in the PlayOnLinux (and PlayonMac) application when you uncheck the 'commercial' checkbox). Sorting is not possible from the website.
Dadu042
Tuesday 1 January 2019 at 12:05
Hi everyone!
We wish a happy and successful year! For this first day of 2019, we are glad to release the second alpha version of Phoenicis PlayOnLinux 5.
A new wine builder
We have rewritten from scratch our winebuild platform. To make it short, it is more reliable, more transparent, easier to setup and cross-platform compatible. Any project that needs to use wine could now potentially use it and take advantage of the 1828 different builds. (We admit that some of them are outdated, though).
The winebuild project is open source, uses containers. You can install it on your machine in no time if you want to build wine by yourself.
Support of new wine distributions
Speaking about wine builds, we now support 4 wine distributions:
We plan to support proton in the next weeks.
All these wine build can be compiled directly through https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis-winebuild/.
(1) Except the very old versions that have a specific suffix is their names, like 1.5.3-heap_allocation_v2-avoid_deadlock, but we are going to move them anyway.
DOS Support
Winebuild now provides dos_support distribution. The way these wine binaries works is very simple: Wine launch script has been modified to detect if the given .exe is Win32 or a DOS executable. If it is a DOS executable, it will set-up a dosbox configuration that will behave consistenly with wine:
The script framework has also been modified so that you can tweak some dosbox settings directly from a script. Here is an exemple of 'advanced' script
GoG support
We've added a way to add a web browser view directly inside script wizards. Thanks to this feature, scripts can now authenticate to any website.
Phoenicis can automatically download and install GoG games from your account, as POLv4 used to do during the past years.
A complete demonstration video of gog.com support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fopp-x9Fz3g&feature=youtu.be
Also, we have made a script pattern for all GoG games: it has drastically simplified them from POLv4. The script are so much easier that we believe that they will be a lot more maintained.
We are planning to add tons of GoG games in the library so stay tuned!
Installation of verbs directly inside a container
You can now install verbs directly from a wine container.
Standalone packages
I'd like to thank once again all the developers that helped us during the past weeks, plata, madoar, and also all those of you that contributed by reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, or tested phoenicis-winebuild.
Our next goals is to focus on prefix management (change of wine version inside a prefix, add debugging tools, etc..) and performance optimization.
If you have any suggestion or encounter any bug, we encourage you to come in our Github page: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/. This version is still at alpha-stage, so please be indulgent.
I also take the opportunity of this news to also announce you that PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.3.4 has been released. They have been updated to support the new winebuild system, and the different windows of the application have been made resizable. It should fix the HDPI issues some of you were encoutering. We continue to maintain these versions until you are 100% satisfied with POLv5
Download packages:
Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!
Tuesday 27 November 2018 at 0:16
Hi everyone,
Just a short news to announce that we have updated our wine build environement. If you are experiencing issues with our current wine builds (freetype problems, windows too small, ..), this piece of information may interest you.
Pursuing the work concerning the decentralization of our services, we have released a tool than can compile any version of wine directly on your computer or on your server: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis-winebuild
![]() What are the advantage of this new tool?
So what do I have to do if I have problems with the old builds?
Because they are compiled with more up-to-date dependencies, we are expecting the new builds to work better on recent distributions. This should fix most of the problems that you have reported to us recently.
However, we are rebuilding the old packages one by one and it takes time. We advise you to follow the build status here to ensure that the versions you are using are rebuilt: https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/. Then, uninstall your current wine versions from POL and reinstalling them should fix the problem you are encoutering.
As you may have noticed, POL / POM 4 have already been updated to use this new format. If you are using 4.3+, you are good to go
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Sunday 23 September 2018 at 21:48
Hi everybody,
I'm aware that it has been a while since the last time we gave news to you. Be reassured, the project is moving on and here we are to give you some news.
Today, I am very proud to announce that we have managed to release the alpha version of PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 5 (aka Phoenicis). I would like to give my special thanks to those who have continued the work I started few years ago: @plata and @madoar, and many others.
Ifunbox mac app store. You can download the binaries here: https://repository.playonlinux.com/PlayOnLinux/5.0.0-alpha1
So, what's new?
In one word: everything. First, the interface has been completely redesigned:
Phoenicis is a completely rewritten piece of software that aims to bring you all the features of PlayOnLinux 3 and 4 (a.k.a Arietis) with new principles:
This alpha version respects theses principles and supports about 135 games and many other apps. You can see the whole list here: https://www.phoenicis.org/apps
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We need to go further and find a way to gather your feedback. This is the reason why we are releasing an alpha-test version of Phoencis.
What's next?
The project is far from being finished. Our next steps are to develop a strong Wine build platform using modern virtualization and/or containerization solutions. Then, we will make a new website (hosted at: http://www.phoenicis.org) so that we can continue giving you the best support we can.
Feel free to send feedbacks and see you soon
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PC users and Mac users have always had their differences and one of those is not being able to run .exe files on Mac computers. The problem is, there are certain useful applications of software that can prove to be important for the other and their OS unfortunately will not be able to run it. However, you can now have the best of both worlds as you can run .exe on Mac by using various applications. Here are just some of the best ones you can buy, download and use for free.
10. VirtualBox
This is great because first of all, it is for free and considered to be a very good alternative to other .exe for Mac applications in this list. Most can even compare it to Parallels and Fusion, as Virtual Box creates an environment in which you can run Windows. In addition to that, this software can also run Linux applications.
9. CrossOver
This is an application which is referred to as an “emulator”, in which it emulates Windows while you are running your Mac computer. CrossOver does not require you to have a licensed Windows product in order for it to run. However, a downside to it is that you may not be able to run every Windows program you may want to emulate in your Mac.
8. Bootcamp
This is a very popular application amongst Mac users. In fact, it has become so popular that new Mac computers nowadays have it already installed as part of the system. On the other hand, there is a downside to having and using Bootcamp. The software will require you to reboot or restart your computer in order to run the second OS, which is the Windows. Other .exe for Mac applications will often just run it in another window without having to reboot at all.
7. Darwine
Another application that is free and can run Windows-based applications on Mac computers. Plus, it does not need a Windows license in order for it to run. However, like many virtual loaders, this application may not be able to run all types of Windows programs. The best way to go about this is to check first before making an attempt.
6. Wine/Wine Bottler
A lot of Mac users consider Wine or Wine Bottler as one of the best software to run .exe or Windows –based programs on Mac computers. First of all, it’s for free so there’s no reason why you wouldn’t use it in the first place. Then, Wine Bottler can even convert Windows applications into Mac applications. The only downside is that not all Windows apps can be converted especially the new ones as the developer takes some time to add support for them.
5. Parallels Desktop
This is software which you can use to run .exe files on Mac computers. Parallels Desktop requires that you have a Mac computer with an Intel processor to be able to run the application. However, in order to use this, you will also need to have Windows installed in your hard drive. The good thing is you can keep your Mac and Windows separate from one another.
4. Fusion
Fusion is an application that was developed by VMWare and is for Mac users that have an Intel processor. This is like an alternative to Parallels Desktop and the company is already recognized as one that creates various virtual Windows environments which enables users to run many types of versions of Windows on the same computer.
3. Homebrew
Hombrew calls itself the “missing package manager for OS X”, in which its purpose like many in this list is to run Windows-based applications or .exe files, rather.
2. Bochs x86 PC Emulator
This is a portable package that allows you to run .exe or Windows, Linus and other types of operating systems for your Mac computer. Plus, it is for free and quite easy to use.
1. Guest PC
Similar to Bochs, Guest PC is an x86 emulator that runs Windows inside your Mac. Simply think of it as having another computer within your computer that does not require a separate CPU, monitor or keyboard. Even better, you can switch between Mac and Windows anytime you want with ease.
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