gauthierpiarrette/highball
Run Windows games on Apple Silicon — free, open source, with an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works.
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Highball Run Windows games on Apple Silicon. Free, open, and never locked to one Wine build. English · 简体中文 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 a byte. macOS 14+, notarized. Drag it to Applications, open it and press Get started: Highball installs Rosetta if needed, downloads the engine and prepares a Windows environment, then asks where your games are (Steam, Epic, or a Windows program you have).…
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- Download
- Download Highball for Apple Silicon (.dmg)
- Will my game run?
- Search your game in the database →
- Launchers
- Getting started
- Why Highball is built this way
- Architecture in one paragraph
- Contributing
- Licensing
- Credits
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What this repository does
Run Windows games on Apple Silicon — free, open source, with an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works.
Repository facts
- Owner
- gauthierpiarrette
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 1,009
- Forks
- 41
- Open issues + pull requests
- 31
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-08-23T20:35:56.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-21T13:29:39.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: apple-silicon, gaming, macos, swiftui, whisky-alternative, wine
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