The procedure is basically the same as on macOS, though installation happens from within the Terminal. The quality of graphics has improved with latest versions and scaled boards work well. For more information, see a separate post on this forum.Ī screenshot of Four Winds 2.18 running on macOS Mojave using the latest Wine (4.2 Staging) and XQuartz 2.7.11. The commercial version of Wine, CodeWeavers CrossOver, however officially supports 64-bit macOS versions up to Monterey, and even new M1 (Apple Silicon) based macs, while other solutions are limited to Intel based macs. NOTE: WINE based solutions are currently limited to macOS versions that support running 32-bit apps, so this solution is not at least officially applicable to macOS Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey (there are posts on the Internet that describe using WINE also on these operating systems, but officially only systems up to Mojave are supported). 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. 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)”.Īnd there you are, running Four Winds Mah Jong on your Mac, without needing a Windows license. Note that the quality of graphics is mediocre compared to the original but looks slightly better on boards that have not been scaled. 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.Then choose Game > New Game to start a new game with preferred rules. Close the Preferences dialog box and click Help > Register to enter your registration name and number.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). 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”.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. 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”.
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