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Products that do what Highball – Run Windows games on Apple Silicon, with an open game db does

Run Windows games on Apple Silicon — free, open source, with an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works. - gauthierpiarrette/highball

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    Check game compatibility & performance on the new M1 Macs 🎮

    2020

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    Rainway303

    Play your favorite PC games from any web enabled device

    2018

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    Windows games, native on Apple Silicon — first one free

    Jun 2026 · aikos-arcade.pages.dev

  4. 42G

    Hello HN, Just wanted to show this little 2D game engine that I've been working on for some time (around 2 years on the editor part, longer on some of the components). It's quite full featured but obviously this a project of such magnitude already that the work never really ends. That being said it's definitely already at a point where games can made and published. The editor runs natively on Windows and Linux using Qt5. The games can run on both Win and Linux as well as on WASM with WebGL. Feature wise there's a bunch of the stuff you'd expect. Audio, graphics, scripting,…

    2022 · github.com

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    Windows 95 app that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux

    2018

  7. 7MM

    2012 · daringfireball.net

  8. 8HA

    I'm making a platform for simple open source games you can play anywhere. Games are all just JavaScript classes and you can read the source of every game on the platform. I started working on initial "games" (mostly rendering tests) in 2018 and eventually built all of the platform stuff around it to make it easy to share games. There's also an in-browser editor available for you to make and publish games all from the browser. Would love some feedback on the games and studio features as well as the platform overall. All of the code is available at https://github.com/homegamesio

    Jul 2026 · homegames.io

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    Oak225

    Turn your table into an Augmented Reality playground

    2016

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    Run Windows programs on your Mac

    2016

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    Play Windows games on your Mac — Steam & CS2 just work

    Jul 2026 · github.com

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    OpenEmu185

    🎮Retro video game emulation for OS X

    2015

  13. 13MH

    Nov 2025 · astral-os.org

  14. 14GB

    Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, there isn't an existing open-source FPGA emulator that can play physical cartridges like this. One of my main goals was to do all of the pieces myself, and be able to understand every component of it, so I designed my own PCB, wrote the firmware, wrote a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for the FPGA (using the Chisel HDL), and designed a 3D-printed case. I detailed the design and development process in the…

    2025 · eli.lipsitz.net

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    Stencyl176

    Create amazing games without code

    2015

  16. 16WM

    We wrote our inference engine on Rust, it is faster than llama cpp in all of the use cases. Your feedback is very welcomed. Written from scratch with idea that you can add support of any kernel and platform.

    2025 · github.com

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    Play Turf141

    Augmented reality physics sandbox game

    2024

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    Test your apps for compatibility before you buy an M1 Mac

    2021

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    Jongler106

    All you have to do is juggle the ball & smash the high score

    2016

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    Andy127

    Run Android on your Mac or PC

    2014

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    BuildBox135

    Make amazing Mobile games and publish them everywhere.

    2015

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    Boxer84

    The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac

    2015

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    One touch playable basketball game

    2016

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    Retro playing cards inspired by the iconic Microsoft OS

    2016

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