{"id":1043,"date":"2025-04-19T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:57:59","slug":"monkey-island-is-back-on-the-ipad-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Island is back on the iPad again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So move onto 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time passed…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read a couple of days ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Marovitz, the developer of Whiskey<\/a>, a frontend for Apple\u2019s Game Porting Toolkit and Wine, has decided to throw in the towel. The developer is advising users to buy CrossOver<\/a> instead, which provides the same service. The reasoning behind their decision seems sound, and are actually quite noble and considerate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I am trialling Crossover – using Steam, and I purchased 4 MI old games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 so far, so good. A few glitches but I can now run all the MI games on my iPad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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