HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[lillyjsm]

I've had success on Apple Silicon machines (M3 in my case) using Kegworks, which is basically a successor to Wineskin. It seems like there have been some folks doing a lot of development on the wine engine for silicon machines, as well as some work pertaining to the DirectX situation.

This is more or less the steps I did to set it up:

1. Install Kegworks via Homebrew (or MacPorts)
2. Open Kegworks Winery, install engine WS12WineCX24.0.7
3. Click "Update Wrapper" at the bottom to ensure Wineskin-3.1.5 is up to date
4. Click "Create New Blank Wrapper"
5. Name the wrapper p99 (or whatever you want)
6. Once the wrapper is finished, search for the name under Launchpad
7. In the KegworksConfig window for the wrapper, click "Install Software" on the bottom left
8. In my case, I had a p99 directory from a previous linux install so I just chose "Copy a Folder Inside" and selected my p99 folder
9. After the chosen install method is complete, ensure that it uses the "eqgame.exe" executable. Add patchme in the existing double quotes.
10. Under the "Configuration" tab, ensure "DirectX to Metal translation layer - (DXMT)" is checked
11. Close the configuration window, navigate back to Launchpad and attempt to run it

I don't have sound yet, but everything else seems to work great. YMMV of course.