

Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (or later). It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose.

The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. This subreddit is for the discussion of using WINE to play video games. Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop. Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.
