Run your Windows applications on OSX without the need of buying a Windows license.
Cost / License
- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac



MiceWine is described as 'Project that aims to run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones' and is a compatibility layer tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MiceWine for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Flathub, Wine and Windows apps. The best MiceWine alternative is Wine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MiceWine are WinBoat, Proton, PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac and Bottles.
Run your Windows applications on OSX without the need of buying a Windows license.




Even if Windows supports DirectX natively, using WineD3D can enhance backwards compatiblity with older games, especially on Windows 8 and newer that don't support 16 bit screen modes. Another possible use is to emulate unsupported versions of DirectX, or porting DirectX...

Turbo.net for Mac runs PC apps on your Mac without having to install a Virtual Machine.




Turbo.net for Mac is the most popular Web-based & iPad alternative to MiceWine.
This project provides DLL wrappers for the DirectX 1-9 graphics components. Its purpose is to disable the use of the Direct3D 9 user-mode display driver provided by GPU vendors. This forces the runtimes to use D3D9On12 instead.
DDrawCompat is a DLL wrapper aimed at fixing compatibility and performance issues for games based on DirectDraw and Direct3D 1-7. Partially supports GDI as well. There is no API conversion involved, most of the rendering is still done by the native DirectDraw/Direct3D 1-7 and...
Using bare Wine and DOSBox usually gives problems when launching a mixture of Windows and MS-DOS applications.
Boxedwine is an emulator that runs Windows applications. It achieves this by running an unmodified 32-bit version of Wine, and emulating the Linux kernel and CPU.



Boxedwine is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to MiceWine.