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How To Run Windows Apps On Your Mac With Wine
Mar 11, 2025
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hey everybody today I'm going to show
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you how you can easily run Windows
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applications on your Mac now the reason
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I first found out about this is I wanted
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to actually play some old games for my
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childhood that I remember playing on
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Windows and uh you know I found this
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application it's called wine and what it
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does is it's not an emulator but it lets
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you run Windows applications in your Mac
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and it's a simp as that so here's the
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page where you can download it now the
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reason I recommend this download page
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rather than the official wine page is
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because this download includes wine
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botler and with wine botler you can
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actually turn your windows applications
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right into os10 applications and it's
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really nice so here's the download and
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of course I'll have this link below the
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video so you can check this out so once
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you have this downloaded you can open up
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the DMG and of course just like most
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Mac OS 10 installs you just drag these
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apps to your applications folder now you
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can see on my desktop that I have a
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couple different applications and I'm
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going to show you how these can run on
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here and these were actually the games I
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wanted to play so what I can do here is
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just go into my applications folder I'm
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going to open up
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wine and here it'll run up up in your
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menu bar right here so what I can do
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here is I can right click on any
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application and open with other and I'm
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going to scroll down here until I find
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wine and I'm going to open this with
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wine so when I hit open you're going to
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see this little window pop up right here
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and it's going to ask you what you want
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to do with this file so I can run it
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right directly within a wine folder or I
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can convert this to a simple OS 10
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application but what I'm going to do for
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this demo is just run it right in the
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folder so we're going to hit go and
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it'll take just a little bit and your
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application will pop up so here you can
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see je ball running on my Mac and of
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course this is a very classic Windows
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application quite an old one too and uh
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it's a lot of fun you can see it runs
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smoothly as it really should since it's
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pretty simple uh but you can see there's
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no graphical glitches all your windows
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menus appear as they would and you can
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hit about and there you can see
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copyright 1992 Microsoft uh you know it
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is the game and it looks just like at
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what on Windows you have the little
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white mouse cursor just like in Windows
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uh and it's very accurate and and true
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to life so we can try another game here
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we'll open up chips challenge so chips
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challenge is always one of my favorite
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games and you can see once again runs
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very smoothly on uh OS 10 and you know
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it's as simple as that and I can keep
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going on and on and of course I could
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play this game for hours but you get the
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idea of it and so these are old games
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but lots of new games run as well you're
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not just limited to classic games but
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there I died so now here I'm going to
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show you how you can actually turn one
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of these windows applications right into
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an OS 10 application so if I open with
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wine here and I select convert to simple
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OS 10 application I can hit
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go and then open this
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up you're going to see this menu here
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and I've tried this out with a couple
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different apps and it hasn't worked for
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all of them like it didn't seem to work
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for chips challenge uh but I don't know
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if that was just something I was doing
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wrong uh but it works better with
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applications that are self-contained in
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one file and don't have multiple folders
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and different files that go along with
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them so you can see here for this a
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single file I'm going to select copy
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only uh because I want to select this as
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it says if the file is the actual
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executable which it is so if you had
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this application here and it had
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multiple files that go with it like a
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couple folders full of dlls or something
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like that you wouldn't want to select
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this and you can pretty much just forget
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about everything that's on here uh and
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then what you want to do if you want
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this application to run on computers
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that don't have wine installed is you
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can select selfcontained so this
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includes all the wine binaries so the
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app can run like I said without prior
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installation of wine and I could check
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silent install but I don't really need
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to do that and then I'm going to hit
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install so now I can name this app and
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I'm going to call it mind sweeper and
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I'm going to hit save now I've noticed
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even for simple apps like mind sweeper
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which is a very small application it
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seems to take a little while to create
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the application I'm not sure why that is
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but it'll probably take a few minutes
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depending on the size of your
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application and while that's running I'm
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going to show you as well this website
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here where you can look at different
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games and different applications that
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run well in wine so here you can see
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some top 10 lists of different games
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that are running different applications
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uh here's Adobe Flash CS3 you could run
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that if you wanted to run
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flash so these are just some of the
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applications that'll run in wine lots of
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them will that aren't listed here uh but
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you can just try out the applications
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you need to wrun
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so you can see here it created this
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successfully and right here on the
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desktop is the Mind sweeper application
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and you can see there it just generated
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the icon for it as well a very low res
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one but still and I can open up mind
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sweeper and it says preparing down here
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takes just a little while and uh the
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first time it runs going to do a little
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update thing but there you can see mind
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sweeper running I've never been good at
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this game but you can see here it
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running and I died already but there it
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is and now this is an OS 10 application
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if I hit get info you can see that it is
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an Intel application and it also doesn't
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need wine to be installed cuz it does
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include the wine binaries but you can
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see that it makes the one small Windows
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application a whopping 229 Megs because
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it includes all the wine files as well
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but there it is and that's how you can
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run Windows applications on your Mac and
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this is really great if you've just
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switched to the Mac or if you just have
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a couple Windows applications that you
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really need to run and you haven't been
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able to and you don't want to install
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windows on a boot camp partition or
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something like that it's really handy
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assuming the program you want will work
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so that's about all if you have anything
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that you'd like to see me do a video on
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make sure to send me an email I hope you
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found this video useful thank you for
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watching
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