Apple does support Wine on modern macOS, with specific segmentation support to run 32-bit apps in that environment.

How do I go about doing that? Whenever I try and run Wine it gives me weird errors.

I have no idea what's happening under the hood, but PlayOnMac[0] seems to poke WINE the right way to make it work as expected on newer macOS.

[0]: https://www.playonmac.com/en/

I use CrossOver to run a 32 bit Windows app designed in the early 2000s on my M1 Mac, works great. Used to use Parallels but found it to just not be as good, plus they got really spammy with the marketing emails for a while so I just cut it out.

There's a pretty easy, cheap, and straight forward fix for this.

Stop using apple products. They are luke-warm in design and terrible in execution.

Get a PC: Supports Linux, windows, all your games (ALL) and has a mouse with more than one button.

That’s really great advice and I think you’re very smart and intelligent for having such a brave opinion, but that does not help me as I already have a MacBook, and moreover it really doesn’t actually affect my comment.

> all your games (ALL)

This is measurably untrue; modern computers have trouble with the Windows XP era of games a lot of the time. Many games require tinkering and some will just crash after a minute.

I'm pretty sure MacBooks have extremely high resale values; it should be possible to sell yours and get a PC without spending an extra dime if you want to follow the OP's advice.

> This is measurably untrue; modern computers have trouble with the Windows XP era of games a lot of the time. Many games require tinkering and some will just crash after a minute.

This is mostly the fault of games and not Windows. Software usually breaks because of unfounded assumptions, for example, that user documents are always at a specific location or that CPU frequency is always constant. Instead of using Windows API functions to retrieve the path or keep track of frequency, lazy developers often halfass the implementation, hardcode values into their code and that breaks sometime in the future when those API functions become meaningful.

That CPU frequency could change after boot, was once an insane proposition.

My first computer had a button to do it whenever you felt like.

You only get the one button mouse if you specifically go out to buy it instead of a normal mouse. Same as on Windows and Linux really.

Do you have any good articles on how to cheaply and easily stop using apple product, if one is photographer, filmmaker, musician (edit: or iOS developer), and has thousands of hours and dollars invested in MacOS software?

Easy to do if one is starting now with computers but not an option for those who already invested time and money on Apple hardware and use it for their daily work. In these context I would rather suggest to buy (or build, which is also fun and instructive) a 2nd PC machine running whatever the user wants. This would also helps to keep the two worlds separated (work|tinkering). That involves some money for sure, but if the user has a job involving Apple products, chances are that a much more affordable platform like a PC won't be a problem.

It must be repeated that Microsoft's absolute devotion(servitude?) to backwards compatibility is nigh unparalleled.

Yes, there will be some amount of inevitable jank, but by and large the latest version of Windows will happily run software originally written almost 30 years ago for Windows 95.

On this very thread we have the example of WineVDM, a product whose mere existence shows that these days it is Wine who has better backwards compatibility. Better than Windows itself.

You’ve ignored the simple fact that Mac ARM laptops are not merely better than every other laptop around, they are almost in another market space.

Macs have had a second mouse button for 20ish years.

They've actually never had a second mouse button. They started letting you fake having a right mouse button with touch but they never put the second switch in.

The first switch is also faked. :-) Just try tapping it with the Mac turned off.

So overall it's more of a movable trackpad that pretends to be a mouse :D

Well on trackpads. Their mice actually do still have a switch. Also Apple's definition of "off" these days keeps the trackpad and keyboard alive so you can click or press a key to turn it on. Why? I have no idea and it makes doing things like cleaning the keyboard really annoying.

Wine can run 32 bit Windows applications on the latest versions of macOS just fine these days - easiest way to do this is via the (paid) Crossover, who actually wrote the insane code to make it work and contributed it back to Wine as usual, but forks of Wineskin work too. Both on Intel and M1.

Unfortunately 16 bit Windows applications no longer work. I don't believe that is being actively worked on.

Try `gcenx` distribution of wine with crossover patches (https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine). Work fine on M1, enough to play Heroes of Might and Magic III with various mods. I haven't tried playing the Jazz2 though.

There is 86Box and PCBox which are emulators with retro PC gaming in mind. PCBox has Pentium III support which would be good for Windows 2000 or XP. They don't support ARM or macOS though.

They do, at least 86box