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Well, try installing this Wine build for Mac and then Steam for Windows under it.

Then run Steam and enable "Steam Play/Proton compatibility" or whatever it's called under its settings.

Install this Wine build for Apple Silicon and then install anything you want, from Steam to GOG games which often will perfectly run in your machine:

https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir

Next, open Steam and enable the "Steam Play/proton compatibility" in the settings.

anthkon Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

This; and that WIndows 2k was as stable as OSX (compared to w9x and the ME disaster) but... it looked functional but boring , as a brutalist building in any European neighbourhood. Mac OS X blended both the incredible FX you would get from an SGI machine... with all the A/V and printing/design Mac tools, most common PC software (Office, Photoshop)... AND being able to run damn LaTeX, X11, Unix tools and the like. Of course even Windows XP wasn't a match against a G4 with OSX Tiger. They tried with VIsta (after Compiz and KDE3 tried to get tons of OSX' inspiration under GNU and BSD) and it was a disaster.

anthkon Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9

There's already Netsurf with beter JS support than the Duktape one under Unix, Windows and even RiscOS.

anthkon Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

OpenGL 2.1, basically between DirectX 8 and 9 level. If the Super Mario 64 PC port can run even under VooDoo 3D graphics card, I'd love a Max Payne level era device (and maybe able to run HL2) being able to play that.

anthkon Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

I'd love the Perfect Dark recompilation working under GL 2.1:

https://github.com/perfect-dark-pc-port/perfect_dark

anthkon Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Under Wine? Yes.

anthkon Emacs Is a Lispboard

Emacs has cl-lib and most CL users can get into Emacs in seconds (if they are not already proficient enough, most of them btw).

anthkon DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

So did Boeing airtoys, and NASA stuff lend to 3rd parties with no concept of a metric system.

I trust machinery designed from Forth and Lisp hackers with TONS of background on CS science and hardware (and math, up to the point on being THE people creating most "new" technology and old ones such as the Floating Point IEEE standard).

anthkon Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate

Usenet and IRC over I2P.

anthkon Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

There was a software rendered game in vein of Tomb Raider 1 graphics for both DOS and Unix, but I can't remember its name. It was an exploration game, modern, a bit cyberpunkish, in 3D.

anthkon Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time

Mac was the platform for journalists and printed press audio and media producers in Spain. Outside of that niche... good luck.

anthkon Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time

In Spain and Portugal the Mac was the printed press and graphic design platform. Everything for people who truly knew what CMYK and "offset printing" meant. Amiga were for TV studios and odd demoscene people and maybe raster artwork. PC's were for "real work" (even under Windows 95 days). Boring offices with Microsoft Office and custom software, which literally had millions of software for it, from custom Borland ones to Visual Basic 5/6. Well, that and DOS compability and DOS and Windows games.

In late 90's Amigas were still used in TV studios but they were replaced by NT or Mac machines. And, well, PowerPC Macs where still the serious platform to run Photoshop and the rest of graphic suites (and DTP's) until everyone switched to Windows 2000 and NT, altough a G4 Mac was unbeatable for audio and video producing (it curb-stomped Pentium 3's like nothing) until Intel released Pentium 4's with SSE2's and 2000 with SP4 or XP with SP2 were good enough with either a Geforce 3 or a Radeon 7500 series and up.

anthkon Nvidia released its first official GeForce driver for Windows on Arm

Wine will just use the GPU capabilities of the Mac by mapping DirectX/3D calls to Metal. No need to keep any Windows installation, ever.

Also here we are running Amd64 (64 bit Intel, but I use Amd64 for the original architecture) games into ARM with the translation layer. It might have a performance penalty but most WIndows games are Amd64/i386 CPUs anyway.

The video link I gave to you it's a guide to setup Windows' Steam release under MacOS+Wine. Once it's installed you just click on the launcher and that's it, Intel PC Steam under your Mac.

anthkon Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot

Can Java developers run a GUI builder outside the IDE and then use any other editor for the rest and then compile a project with Maven and the like?

anthkon Nvidia released its first official GeForce driver for Windows on Arm

Try a Wine port for Mac with Proton.

Such as https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir

Steps to compile it by hand (if you want a bit more of performance):

Install homebrew

    /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Then, run this commands in the terminal to build and install Wine:

    brew upgrade
    brew trust Sikarugir-App/sikarugir
    brew install --cask Sikarugir-App/sikarugir/sikarugir

    /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

Guide to run windows games under Wine with the Sikarugir wrapper/build.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCgYxRPIqjE&t=23s

Here you don't compile anything, just install them and that's it. Altough the compiled Wine might give you a few FPS' more. Also, the Rosetta related command/installation it's mandatory to translate x86 instructions to ARM.

anthkon Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time

A millenial there; I could emualte it with ease under UAE and floppies and multiple guides in early 00's.

anthkon 10 REM"_(C2SLFF4

Lisp predates BASIC. And ITS too.

anthkon Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

For something like APL modulo the Unicode symbols:

https://t3x.org/klong/

anthkon It's a shame what's happened to radio

The public Spanish radio and TV conglomerate (our BBC, that's it) recently shut down SW/AM radio stations. A shame, even more when we recently suffered a blackout and nothing could match AM's reachability, FM pales against it.

anthkon PCjs Machines

Disks rot with ease. Having an IDE->CF adapter for old computers it's almost mandatory today.

anthkon NPM's release cooldown is security theater

Switch to another user, idealy called 'npm'.

        su -l npm

Then, just in case, run it under bubblewrap so it just can use $HOME and nothing more.

anthkon I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

awk can do grep by itself.

anthkon I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

It's the opposite. Plan9's rc(1) it's much saner than Bash, Ksh and PowerShell.

anthkon The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

H.263 was used as the former codec of Netmeeting (and maybe some other VoIP software too).

anthkon Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Sorry, but nope; Golang there would be there a beast doing that in a much, much faster way. Not to mention C/C++ with NCurses.

anthkon The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

Too late; software patents in Europe were void so most people grabbed XVID/DIVX encoders from Debian Multimedia. PKF and the like.

And, yes, I remember w32codecs until MPlayer's bundled set superseded them. And mencoder for sure ;)

anthkon San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI 'Nudify' Apps from App Stores

Take any woman head, use PS on any porn snapshot, use the clone tool, now you have a crude approximation. PS or Gimp skills = near zero.

anthkon San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI 'Nudify' Apps from App Stores

Ban Gimp too. And any MS Paint clone.

And pencils. Any mediocre artist can deduce the anatomy of everyone under the clothes.

anthkon Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

Install ZRAM and try Otter Browser instead ffox. Set adblocking at Otter's settings. Also, Dillo from git it's uberfast and good enough for news, blogs and HN.

Also Alpine Linux (32 bit, the extended edition for better hw) will run faster than Antix.