Older 32 bit games?

[komoto2008]

Sure would be nice to provide a port to run the old 32 bit games for the Mac. Might help since there's a dearth of Mac games in the first place.

[alexmaru]

First, a lot of the new games already released and announced, and all modern engines supports mac and metal natively. "Death" is wrong word, because right now amount of the games is rising.

Second, you can run made for Windows 32bit games, using Crossover or another Wine based things.

Most of the 32 bit ports of the Mac games was made by the putting emulator inside of the package (hello to Aspire games) so it definitly better just to run them, using not out of date Wine.

[ybnorml1]

the word they used was dearth.....not death

[halfberry35]

to run old 32bit game you need to run Mac OS Mojave and below to run 32bit and 64 games.

I keep one of my Mac Pro with Radeon 580 on Mojave to run older titles

[halfberry35]

Originally posted by alexmaru:

First, a lot of the new games already released and announced, and all modern engines supports mac and metal natively. "Death" is wrong word, because right now amount of the games is rising.

Second, you can run made for Windows 32bit games, using Crossover or another Wine based things.

Most of the 32 bit ports of the Mac games was made by the putting emulator inside of the package (hello to Aspire games) so it definitly better just to run them, using not out of date Wine.

we lost Blizzard, Paradox and others due to Apple stupid to kill off 32 bit apps and games

[Madd the Sane]

Bah, inactivity caused the Steam Client to poop and discard what I wrote…

But I'm certain that Apple dropped 32-bit support because 1) They didn't want the lack of 32-bit apps to be only on Apple Silicon. 2) They didn't want to mess with the 32-bit-only frameworks like QuickDraw, Carbon, et al again to update them for 32-bit ARM (which Apple Silicon can't even run, and which A-series dropped probably when iOS dropped support for their 32-bit apps). That is some old code, with strict packing which wouldn't run optimally under ARM's memory model.

[Cathulhu]

Added "End of Life" alert for macOS 10.13 ("High Sierra") and 10.14 ("Mojave"). Steam Client support for these operating systems will end on February 15th, 2024 at 10am. See here for additional details.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3900742907390254907

There you have Valve's answer. They will end support for the last two versions of Mac OS that can still run 32Bit apps.

[SpaceCadet]

Actually see:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/2/4031347296568568897/

Many games are mislabeled as incompatible, but work fine. Link includes a google doc with tested games