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Game On? Despite a growing userbase and popularity, macOS still poses significant challenges for true gamers. While alternative solutions exist to ease the burden, Whisky was one of the better compatibility layers that is now about to go dark – because its developer has simply lost interest.

The developer of Whisky recently announced that the project will no longer be actively maintained. Also known as WhiskyWine, Whisky is a user-friendly frontend designed to run Wine's compatibility layer on macOS.

Like Wine, Whisky is open source, but it also incorporates code from CodeWeavers CrossOver – a commercial product aimed at enhancing Wine's functionality by offering additional fixes and improved compatibility for running Windows games on Mac systems. CodeWeavers has contributed over 50,000 changes to Wine, making it a major force in the project's ongoing development.

Whisky will not receive any future releases, except possibly for occasional updates if a macOS upgrade breaks the application. The developer explained that he lost interest in the project, which is time-consuming and provides little financial reward – especially for someone still in school.