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A comment on Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina. Parent comment

Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by ratww on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:23PM (#21236427)
For games, I think it's feasible to make at least the code that interfaces with the OS into a separate, re-linkable, open-source library.

Translations between the APIs (Carbon to Cocoa, OpenGL to DirectX) might be very hard, but at least upgrades would be possible.

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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by icebraining on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:53AM (#21239509)
Wine shows you don't need the source of the programs to do that API translation.
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