You can’t knock a good installer, especially when it gets an application’s array of support files where they need to be with minimal fuss.
A new installation method for Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit on a Mac has been introduced, thanks to a third-party installer that handles the tricky bits of the installation process.
Following the release of the Apple Game Porting Toolkit to the developer community, programmers saw a way to introduce games that had been produced for Windows to the Mac via emulation. What remained was a tricky installation process which often included multiple elements that needed to be entered via the Terminal program.
To help game developers save time and effort, an installation wizard for the Game Porting Toolkit has been released by wizard producer InstallAware. Posted to GitHub, the Apple Game Porting Toolkit Installer uses InstallAware Multi Platform to automate the installation of the Game Porting Toolkit on a Mac.
The project, which is intended to demonstrate InstallAware’s product, is aimed chiefly at developers.
According to the installer’s Readme file, the sample works on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and doesn’t require users to download the Game Porting Toolkit from an Apple Developer Account. When used with an Apple Silicon Mac and an Apple Developer account, the sample will perform a number of other setup tasks, which will use Apple’s tech to accelerate 3D games.
Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit was demonstrated at WWDC 2023 and offers a way to run Windows games on a Mac without actually porting the code. Albeit not meant as an emulation interface for running games, observers believed it could be used that way, thereby freeing up considerable amounts of time developers might have to spend porting games to macOS.
If you’ve had a chance to try the Game Porting Toolkit or the InstallAware build, please let us know about your experience in the comments.
Via AppleInsider and GitHub