If it's a DOS exe file, you can try using DOSBox to run it. Crossover is the only commercial version of wine for Mac that I know of - money from Crossover goes to help continued development of new versions of Crossover and new developments for the free / unsupported version of Wine.

(requires windows license)Ĭrossover Mac (cost varies depending on what you buy), Darwine (free) - Wine implementations for Mac. If you deselect Show all filename extensions, then file extensions are. If you select Show all filename extensions, all extensions are shown, even for files that have Hide extension selected.

Select or deselect Show all filename extensions. Parallels (~$80), VMWare Fusion (~$80), VirtualBox (Free) virtual machine software to install windows into a VM and run that VM to access windows software. In the Finder on your Mac, choose Finder > Preferences, then click Advanced. They are designed for Windows (or DOS), and will require either:īootcamp to boot into windows (requires windows license) If you have a title that is Windows only, you can also look into using Darwine (Mac version of Wine) - it's not as fancy as crossover, but it does work.īasically, as said before. Aside from games, many titles do offer Mac versions of their software (in the case of Audacity, there is a Mac version).

First suggestion is - any software you're interested in, look for a OSX version of it.

Open up exe files on mac