Highball – Run Windows games on Apple Silicon, with an open game db
Run Windows games on Apple Silicon — free, open source, with an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works. - gauthierpiarrette/highball
What it does
Run Windows games on Apple Silicon. Free, open, and never locked to one Wine build. Highball is a native macOS app (and CLI) that sets up Wine, DXMT, D3DMetal and DXVK for you, installs Steam or connects your Epic library, and tells you honestly what runs, what doesn't, and which renderer to use. The difference is the data. Every verdict comes from an open, CC0 compatibility database: verified runs, per-game renderer verdicts, and the kernel-anti-cheat blocklist, with provenance on every claim. It's a standalone dataset any tool can build on ( highball-db , browsable at gethighball.com/database ), so you can check whether your game runs before downloading afrom github.com
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