The chains are loosening. DirectX still binds many PC games to Windows. Now, CodeWeavers expects CrossOver to support DirectX 11 by the end of the year, with Wine gaining compatibility shortly ...

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In context: CodeWeavers' CrossOver is a software package designed to run Windows applications and games on macOS systems. The company describes its tool as a "completely unique approach" to ...

Apple is gambling on itself and its ability to design custom silicon for its entire range of Mac devices, as part of a two-year plan to transition away from x86 Intel CPUs. To get things started, ...

Surfing multimedia web sites under Linux has been a somewhat frustrating experience. We do have support for RealPlayer and Flash, and we have some other fine streaming-media clients such as XMMS, but ...

Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from MacUser. Itching to try out Google Chrome, but don’t feel like leaving the confines of your Mac? You could install ...

For a staggering 23 years, the developers at Codeweavers have undertaken the gargantuan task of enabling Windows software to run on Mac and Linux operating systems. Among other accomplishments, the ...

Users are now able to run Office XP on Linux, following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system. The CodeWeavers package now supports ...

Sometimes, what is possible it not always practical. Some users, such as those who absolutely must run a legacy Windows application, have found it’s possible to load Windows on a Mac. Not for the ...

Apple has made a tiny bit of progress in the last year when it comes to getting games running on Macs—titles like Resident Evil Village and a recent No Man’s Sky port don’t exactly make the Mac a ...

The developers of CrossOver have announced that their latest version can run both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications on the new Apple Silicon M1 Macs. As other virtualization companies work to ...