Porting Kit Alternatives
Porting Kit is described as 'Using Wineskin technology, Porting Kit is a PaulTheTall.com app that can install games and apps compiled for Microsoft Windows® in Mac OS X. It has access to a server where we store WSI files for more than 300 games, which can be installed by any Porting Kit user'. There are more than 10 alternatives to Porting Kit for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, BSD, Wine and Steam. The best alternative is Wine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Porting Kit are PlayOnLinux (Free, Open Source), Proton (Free, Open Source), Parallels Desktop (Freemium) and CrossOver (Paid).
- Wine is a free, open source application for running Windows software on operating systems that are normally not supported. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- BSD
Wine vs Porting Kit opinions
uhada Not really an alternative as such, since Wine is the engine behind Porting Kit. But if you want to do things more manually and get your hands dirty, Wine it is. Porting Kit seems really cool and user friendly though! - PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac at http://www.playonmac.com ) is a tool to help Linux (and Mac) users run games and programs for Windows on Linux (or Mac, FreeBSD), via the use of (as a front-end for) Wine.
- Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on Linux kernel and macOS operating systems.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- Steam
- Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as macOS. Parallels Desktop is optimized for Intel and Apple M1 chip.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux computer.
- Darling — macOS translation layer for Linux Fast Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator. Free Like Linux, Darling is free and open-source software. It is developed openly on GitHub and distributed under the GNU GPL license version 3.No screenshots yet
- Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for wine that will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications
- WineBottler is an App to manage and wrap your Windows apps into convenient OS X apps. WineBottler helps you with running Windows programs on OS X.
- Steam emulator that emulates steam online features. Lets you play games that use the steam multiplayer APIs on a LAN without steam or an internet connection.No screenshots yet
- Karton is a tool which can transparently run Linux programs: - 🐧 on a different Linux distribution, - 🍎 on macOS, - 💻 on a different architecture (ARMv7 and ARMv8, on a x86-64 host).No screenshots yet