[anthonyskipper]

This is awful. I love playing games on my MBP and the latest crossover releases have been amazing in the ability to play almost all windows PC games at full speed. Losing rosetta means crossover is dead.

You would hope that apple would open source it, but they are one of the worst companies in the world for open sourcing things. Shame on all their engineers.

[evmar]

From the OP: "Beyond [the two-year] timeframe, we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks."

[difosfor]

What about the newer games that are maintained, just not supported on anything but windows?

[anthonyskipper]

This is the real issue. Mac is not a target for a large number of triple A games, and rosetta made that possible. Apple has a vested interest because if they support rosetta you don't need to by Windows laptops to game... you can just use your Mac. Otherwise they are routing money to their competition.

[mxey]

Isn’t that part of Rosetta also used in their own Game Porting Toolkit?

[Cloudef]

mac for gaming is just not a good idea

[fragmede]

What are you talking about? There's Do I have enough RAM to run Slack, all my Chrome tabs, and a terminal program; there's what terminal program shall I run today: Ghost edition; there's Can I get Colima to run, now with docker DLC. There's Kubernetes on Mac: Kind edition; there's Let's with Tart!; Nix is for Ops: New and more obtuse config edition. With so many fun games to play, who's got time for anything else?

[snvzz]

Fortunately, whoever has money for a Mac can also afford hardware that will actually run games.

[wooger]

A Macbook (air) is no longer a crazy expensive unobtainable thing, just a perfectly reasonable mid-price choice for most people.

Whereas a good graphics card alone is still insane money.

[gbear605]

Yep, Macs are cheaper than many graphic cards alone