Hey Guys how are you doing? Anyway is it just me? Or is GOGS new game client Galaxy a real pain in the butt? They're trying so hard at it, but I think its a waste of time. I don't want another steam. I liked it the way it was it comes with a lot of trouble. I loved it when they just used Boxer/wine. You see I own An iMac Oh poor me, I know. It makes it hard through the Galaxy client to use any Cross over tool I have to play the games on this site on my mac, yeah yeah I know there is steam, and it's easy to cross over to make windows games to mac games over there. I have bought some games on this site that I want to cross over and don't want to buy the games twice. Long story short, I need help Converting my games on GOG.COM from Windows to Mac games thanks. Is they're away without downloading it through their client these days? It would make it a whole lot easier for me.

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I haven't used an Apple product in any capacity since the Fruit Macs so…I'm not entirely sure what you mean by convert; especially with that lovely wall of text with no spacing or paragraphing.

But if you want to download Windows games to install them via wine, that's simple enough; just open the installers with Wine and get started; it's how it works on Linux, and MacOS is a red headed stepchild of Unix (BSD), so the steps should mostly be the same.

Converting? Games aren't just a format like jpg or doc.
DOS Games can be emulated by using DOSbox for Mac. Wine might work for some Windows games, but don't expect it to work for just any game... or it to be "easy".

Galaxy is optional, you can still grab the installer for mac, linux and windows and install them the good old style. Just hold your mouse button over you user icon and then on games.

About running the windows-only games on a mac you already mentioned wine. The easiest way here ist to use a program called Porting Kit (http://portingkit.com/en/) It's a neat little program that download all necessary stuff for you to make many windows games run via Wineskin on your make. It's very easy to use. Another options are using an Virtual Machine (as example with Parallels) or directly boot into Windows via Bootcamp.

If there's a new engine that is available (or sources to compile natively), which takes the data files without needing to change them, then that would probably be the best thing you can do.

Second step would be near native emulation, generally using a different permission level (effectively running on hardware but changing API stuff, so VirtualBox and WINE)

Finally there's outright emulation, which is going to be about 300x slower, so i hope it's a game that didn't have much speed at the time...

Sorry, I apologise for my lousy wording yes you are right emulating instead of converting. I'm kind of new to this sort of thing. I was just annoyed I couldn't play a game yesterday. I didn't mean to make anyone angry because of my lack of knowledge. What I really wanted was to emulate the GOG's client for the mac which would make things "easy" I'm just trying to learn about this sort of thing Thanks for your help, Got it to work using the programme port kit Thanks They dumbed it down for me so I could understand

I use a Mac for my gog games, I use wineskin to run them and they run completely fine! Of course it will depend on the individual game.

Does anyone know of a place games that were successful with wineskin are listed.

Seems that I have to pay up front without knowing if it will work. I see games listed on GOG as windows only that I know I had trouble wineskin-ing years ago.

Maybe Galaxy is the thing that makes it work. But if Galaxy still requires Wineskin I am not sure what the point is? I was using wineskin independently ages before GOG.

Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't. No way to know before hand that I could ever find.

winehq.org, also anything done with PortingKit uses Wineskin specifically. Newer versions of Wine are more compatible. Galaxy would not make it work, since that's one more thing you have to get running in Wine, and last I heard there are issues. Stay away from clients. Kind of like how Steam updates tend to break in Wine, so even if the game itself works, the client messes things up.