
Previous versions of Boot Camp supported Windows XP and Windows Vista. Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the utility was first introduced with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and has been included in subsequent versions of the operating system ever since.

The utility also installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the default boot operating system. The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ or APFS partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive or solid-state drive and installation of Windows device drivers for the Apple hardware.

It's a packaged version of WINE, offering features like pre-packaged installers for Windows apps that you'd normally handle with Winetricks and other tools.6.1.19 (29 August 2022 6 months ago ( 29 August 2022))īoot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s macOS (previously Mac OS X / OS X) that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers. It is available: Īlternatively, you can purchase CrossOver for Mac, which is CodeWeaver's main WINE product at. Using the brew package manager, you can follow Gcenx's guide on how to install CodeWeaver's wine-crossover package, as well as other tools that aid with using WINE on macOS like Wineskin. CodeWeavers, the developer of Crossover, a tool that allows Windows apps to run on macOS/Linux, has made 32 bit WINE available on macOS.ĬodeWeavers has made 32 bit Wine available on macOS however, and have made an open source release of the technology as well. However, 32 bit WINE can run on macOS with Apple Silicon. Rosetta 2 is only a translation layer that makes x86_64 code (not 32 bit, 64 bit only) runnable on ARM. There is no native support for running i386 apps on M1 or any version of macOS >= 10.15.
