Recent developments in virtualization, emulation and techniques that allow running of applications developed for 'foreign' platforms as if they were native ones, have made it relatively easy, and often free, to use the same app in mixed environments.
How to download macOS High Sierra 10.13.1. As we mentioned earlier, Apple has now released macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, an updated version of High Sierra that includes a number of bug fixes.
This post takes a closer look on one of this techniques, namely Wine (acronym for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'), that allows running native Windows software on POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD, without need for a Windows license.
Here we install the game on macOS Sierra / High Sierra (the screenshots are from Sierra).
- First you need to allow your system to install apps from 'App Store and identified developers' (or possibly 'Anyone', depending on what else needs to be installed other than XQuartz and Wine). Earlier macOS versions let you alter the default setting (that allows apps only from the App Store) by setting the Gatekeeper option under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General, but High Sierra hides the other two options and you need to enable them by opening the Terminal (in Finder, click Go > Utilities and open Terminal), and type the following (you need to enter your user password to be able to change the setting):
WineBottler packages Windows-based programs snugly into OS X app-bundles. No need to install emulators or operating systems - WineBottler uses the great open-source tool Wine to run the binaries on your Mac. Wine is an open source program. That means that programmers around the world are continually improving it, adding new features and squashing bugs. If you don't update Wine, though, it will never get those improvements, so it's generally a good idea to check for updates every so often. The 2.5.8 version of Wineskin for Mac is provided as a free download on our website. This app's bundle is identified as com.wineskin.doh123. The most popular version of Wineskin for Mac is 1.0. The program lies within System Tools, more precisely General. This free Mac application is a product of Wineskin.Wineskin. The Wine development release 6.0-rc1 is now available. This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 6.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 6.0 as good as possible. What's new in this release: Gecko engine update. WindowsCodecs and QCap libraries.
- After this you can go and change the Gatekeeper setting.
- Go to https://www.winehq.org and read the introductory text, if you are not familiar with the concept of Wine, then go to https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOS to read installation instructions specific to macOS.
- You first need to have XQuartz 2.7.7. (or later) installed. Visit https://www.xquartz.org to download it. Click the .pkg file in Downloads to mount the installer, then launch it to go through the installation.
- After having installed XQuartz, download Wine at https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/macosx/download.html (version 2.21 'Wine Staging' is a good choice):
- Download the .pkg file, click it in Downloads to mount the installer, then launch it to start the installation. During the installation, you may be interrupted by prompts to install support for Mono (for .NET applications) and Gecko (for apps that use HTML internally). Accept to install these support packages.
- After the installation is complete, you can go to http://www.4windsmj.com/downloads01.htm and download the latest version of Four Winds Mah Jong. Once downloaded, click the executable setup package (normally 4W2Full24.exe) in Downloads. It will automatically be launched in Wine and installed in correct location. A Windows shortcut is placed on the desktop, but it naturally does not work. You need to replace it with a Mac alias.
- Open your Home folder (in Finder, click Go > Home or press Cmd+Shift+H). Now make hidden files and folders visible by pressing Cmd+Shift+. (dot). This shows the hidden .wine folder where your Windows environment is installed:
- Double click the .wine folder and open folders until you have 4Winds2 folder open (the folder path relative to .wine is, as shown in the image below: drive_c > Program Files > 4Winds2:
- Here, click with the secondary mouse button on 4Winds2.exe to create an alias, then drag and drop it on your desktop.
- Launch Four Winds by double clicking the alias.
- Once launched, go to File > Preferences, and under User Interface > General option page (accessed by the category tree on the left), disable color management by clearing the check mark from the Use color management option:
You may also need to Bypass DirectX sound (under the same option page), and choose a MIDI file (on the Themes option page) for the 'Background' and 'Win of the game' music, or set their values to 'none'. (the default music comes as .mp3 files which require DirectX). If you do not change the sound settings, you can turn off background music from the Options menu so that an unsupported feature is not used.
- If you have a one-button mouse, click the Game Controls button, then change the mouse control setting for discarding from 'Right click on raised tile' to 'Click on raised tile'. On the same dialog box, you may need to uncheck Use custom cursors (with recent Wine builds, animated and custom cursors seem to be working fine, but if the game suddenly freezes, one possible cause is the use of custom mouse cursors).
- Close the Preferences dialog box and click Help > Register to enter your registration name and number. Then choose Game > New Game to start a new game with preferred rules.
- You may want to test with different game boards by using the options under the View > Game boards sub menu to find the board size and layout that works best on your screen. Note that the quality of graphics is mediocre compared to the original but looks slightly better on boards that have not been scaled. If you choose a 24-bit theme, scaling has a better quality: e.g., for the default graphics, choose File > Preferences, then under User Interface > Themes, choose 'Four Winds (24-bit)'.
And there you are, running Four Winds Mah Jong on your Mac, without needing a Windows license. The quality is not as good as when using VMWare or VirtualBox (both free), or Parallels Desktop, not to mention running the game on real Windows on a BootCamp partition, but at least you can now play proper Mahjong with multitude of rule options offline on your Mac.
A screenshot of Four Winds 2.18 running on macOS Mojave using the latest Wine (4.2 Staging) and XQuartz 2.7.11.
The quality of graphics has improved with latest versions and scaled boards work well.
Running Four Winds on Linux
The procedure is basically the same as on macOS, though installation happens from within the Terminal. WineHQ has instructions for installing Wine on several different Linux systems. Below is a screenshot of Four Winds running on Ubuntu 16.04 using Wine 3.0.
In this article, I will show you how to create macOS High Sierra Bootable USB Via Unibeast. However, if you want to install macOS High Sierra on any kind of computers such as Mac or PC. Therefore, you need a bootable USB to install the operating system, but there are lots of methods to create bootable USB for macOS High Sierra. However, I recommend you to use this method it can easily and comfortable for you. Moreover, if you don't know how to install macOS High Sierra operating system on your Windows operating system, on VMware and VirtualBox therefore, you can see this article, which belongs to the installation of macOS High Sierra.
What is Unibeast?
UniBeast is a tool by MacMan and tonymacx86 to create a bootable USB drive from any Mac App Store purchased copy of OS X. This is an all-in-one bootable USB drive can also be used as a rescue boot drive for system recovery. However, without this tool, there is TransMac that you can use them on your Windows operating system. And more there are more tricks to create bootable USB for macOS High Sierra that you can use them.
Related:
Create macOS High Sierra Bootable USB
Step #1.Download the latest version of macOS High Sierra operating system from App store or Techsprobe.com.
Step #2.Download Unibeast for macOS High Sierra from tonymacx86. Before going to download you need to create an account on TonyMacx86 after that, the download link will appear on the list.
Step #3. Before to start the process of creating a bootable USB you need to insert the USB drive to your computer. Then navigate to search bar of macOS High Sierra, then type there DISK UTILITY, after that, click on erase button. Be aware that you are selected the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the format list. However, you need at least 8 GB USB Drive or more then it, it can be better.
Erase USB Drive
Step #4. After the erasing is completed, you will be notified that Erase process is complete, click Done to Continue.
Install Unibeast to create macOS High Sierra bootable USB
Step #5. After that, you erased the USB drive, Now open the Unibeast installer and click Continue.
Welcome to Unibeast Mac App Installer
Step #6. In the important information read all the information about Unibeast+Multibeast, and click Continue.
Step #7. In this step, to continue the installation software you must agree, to the terms of the software license agreement. Then click Continue then Agree.
Agree to terms and condition
Step #8. In this step, the erased USB drive will appear on the screen, you need to select this drive and click Continue.
Select a Destination
Step #9. In this step, select the installation type the DMG file of macOS High Sierra just click on Sierra and click Continue.
Simpsons hit and run rom. Step #10. In the step of bootloader configuration, select UEFI Boot mode and click Continue.
Bootloader configuration
Step #11. In this step, select inject NVIDIA from Graphics configuration and click Continue.
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Graphics configuration
Step #12. In this step, don't do anything simply click Continue.
Step #13. Before this step, you need to enter your username password to give the full permission. Then you need to wait for some seconds to copy the macOS High Sierra DMG file to the USB drive. Sa gaw stock for sale by owner.
Copying files
Step #14. In this step, you will completely be done with creating macOS High Sierra Bootable USB so press Quit button to finish the installation of Unibeast.
Install Succeeded
- After this you can go and change the Gatekeeper setting.
- Go to https://www.winehq.org and read the introductory text, if you are not familiar with the concept of Wine, then go to https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOS to read installation instructions specific to macOS.
- You first need to have XQuartz 2.7.7. (or later) installed. Visit https://www.xquartz.org to download it. Click the .pkg file in Downloads to mount the installer, then launch it to go through the installation.
- After having installed XQuartz, download Wine at https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/macosx/download.html (version 2.21 'Wine Staging' is a good choice):
- Download the .pkg file, click it in Downloads to mount the installer, then launch it to start the installation. During the installation, you may be interrupted by prompts to install support for Mono (for .NET applications) and Gecko (for apps that use HTML internally). Accept to install these support packages.
- After the installation is complete, you can go to http://www.4windsmj.com/downloads01.htm and download the latest version of Four Winds Mah Jong. Once downloaded, click the executable setup package (normally 4W2Full24.exe) in Downloads. It will automatically be launched in Wine and installed in correct location. A Windows shortcut is placed on the desktop, but it naturally does not work. You need to replace it with a Mac alias.
- Open your Home folder (in Finder, click Go > Home or press Cmd+Shift+H). Now make hidden files and folders visible by pressing Cmd+Shift+. (dot). This shows the hidden .wine folder where your Windows environment is installed:
- Double click the .wine folder and open folders until you have 4Winds2 folder open (the folder path relative to .wine is, as shown in the image below: drive_c > Program Files > 4Winds2:
- Here, click with the secondary mouse button on 4Winds2.exe to create an alias, then drag and drop it on your desktop.
- Launch Four Winds by double clicking the alias.
- Once launched, go to File > Preferences, and under User Interface > General option page (accessed by the category tree on the left), disable color management by clearing the check mark from the Use color management option:
You may also need to Bypass DirectX sound (under the same option page), and choose a MIDI file (on the Themes option page) for the 'Background' and 'Win of the game' music, or set their values to 'none'. (the default music comes as .mp3 files which require DirectX). If you do not change the sound settings, you can turn off background music from the Options menu so that an unsupported feature is not used.
- If you have a one-button mouse, click the Game Controls button, then change the mouse control setting for discarding from 'Right click on raised tile' to 'Click on raised tile'. On the same dialog box, you may need to uncheck Use custom cursors (with recent Wine builds, animated and custom cursors seem to be working fine, but if the game suddenly freezes, one possible cause is the use of custom mouse cursors).
- Close the Preferences dialog box and click Help > Register to enter your registration name and number. Then choose Game > New Game to start a new game with preferred rules.
- You may want to test with different game boards by using the options under the View > Game boards sub menu to find the board size and layout that works best on your screen. Note that the quality of graphics is mediocre compared to the original but looks slightly better on boards that have not been scaled. If you choose a 24-bit theme, scaling has a better quality: e.g., for the default graphics, choose File > Preferences, then under User Interface > Themes, choose 'Four Winds (24-bit)'.
And there you are, running Four Winds Mah Jong on your Mac, without needing a Windows license. The quality is not as good as when using VMWare or VirtualBox (both free), or Parallels Desktop, not to mention running the game on real Windows on a BootCamp partition, but at least you can now play proper Mahjong with multitude of rule options offline on your Mac.
A screenshot of Four Winds 2.18 running on macOS Mojave using the latest Wine (4.2 Staging) and XQuartz 2.7.11.
The quality of graphics has improved with latest versions and scaled boards work well.
Running Four Winds on Linux
The procedure is basically the same as on macOS, though installation happens from within the Terminal. WineHQ has instructions for installing Wine on several different Linux systems. Below is a screenshot of Four Winds running on Ubuntu 16.04 using Wine 3.0.
In this article, I will show you how to create macOS High Sierra Bootable USB Via Unibeast. However, if you want to install macOS High Sierra on any kind of computers such as Mac or PC. Therefore, you need a bootable USB to install the operating system, but there are lots of methods to create bootable USB for macOS High Sierra. However, I recommend you to use this method it can easily and comfortable for you. Moreover, if you don't know how to install macOS High Sierra operating system on your Windows operating system, on VMware and VirtualBox therefore, you can see this article, which belongs to the installation of macOS High Sierra.
What is Unibeast?
UniBeast is a tool by MacMan and tonymacx86 to create a bootable USB drive from any Mac App Store purchased copy of OS X. This is an all-in-one bootable USB drive can also be used as a rescue boot drive for system recovery. However, without this tool, there is TransMac that you can use them on your Windows operating system. And more there are more tricks to create bootable USB for macOS High Sierra that you can use them.
Related:
Create macOS High Sierra Bootable USB
Step #1.Download the latest version of macOS High Sierra operating system from App store or Techsprobe.com.
Step #2.Download Unibeast for macOS High Sierra from tonymacx86. Before going to download you need to create an account on TonyMacx86 after that, the download link will appear on the list.
Step #3. Before to start the process of creating a bootable USB you need to insert the USB drive to your computer. Then navigate to search bar of macOS High Sierra, then type there DISK UTILITY, after that, click on erase button. Be aware that you are selected the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the format list. However, you need at least 8 GB USB Drive or more then it, it can be better.
Erase USB Drive
Step #4. After the erasing is completed, you will be notified that Erase process is complete, click Done to Continue.
Install Unibeast to create macOS High Sierra bootable USB
Step #5. After that, you erased the USB drive, Now open the Unibeast installer and click Continue.
Welcome to Unibeast Mac App Installer
Step #6. In the important information read all the information about Unibeast+Multibeast, and click Continue.
Step #7. In this step, to continue the installation software you must agree, to the terms of the software license agreement. Then click Continue then Agree.
Agree to terms and condition
Step #8. In this step, the erased USB drive will appear on the screen, you need to select this drive and click Continue.
Select a Destination
Step #9. In this step, select the installation type the DMG file of macOS High Sierra just click on Sierra and click Continue.
Simpsons hit and run rom. Step #10. In the step of bootloader configuration, select UEFI Boot mode and click Continue.
Bootloader configuration
Step #11. In this step, select inject NVIDIA from Graphics configuration and click Continue.
Download Mac Os High Sierra
Graphics configuration
Step #12. In this step, don't do anything simply click Continue.
Step #13. Before this step, you need to enter your username password to give the full permission. Then you need to wait for some seconds to copy the macOS High Sierra DMG file to the USB drive. Sa gaw stock for sale by owner.
Copying files
Step #14. In this step, you will completely be done with creating macOS High Sierra Bootable USB so press Quit button to finish the installation of Unibeast.
Install Succeeded
Conclusion
Wine For Mac Os High Sierra Installer
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