I have missed MI on the iPad. Time was when all the episodes were available as apps – and then they weren’t. I’m assuming that the apps were not updated in the transition from 32-64 bit apps and are now just a footnote in history.

Steam does ‘sell’ the games – but I found out after purchase some time ago, that not all games had a Mac version. Steam kindly reimbursed me.

So move onto 2024:

I was going to investigate Whiskey (vi) but put this off as I was running an intel iMac at the time, and Whiskey needed Apple silicon. I upgraded to a M2Pro MacMini but forgot about Whiskey…

Time passed…

I read a couple of days ago:

Isaac Marovitz, the developer of Whiskey, a frontend for Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit and Wine, has decided to throw in the towel. The developer is advising users to buy CrossOver instead, which provides the same service. The reasoning behind their decision seems sound, and are actually quite noble and considerate.

So, I am trialling Crossover – using Steam, and I purchased 4 MI old games.

I can now run Escape from Monkey Island on my Mac, using Windows emulation. The photo above is a screen shot of my M4 iPad Pro running MI – by using JumpDesk!

… so far, so good. A few glitches but I can now run all the MI games on my iPad!