Paul The Tall News Updates

As a game porter I have seen and tested thousands of games in the past decade. Some of them I still play regularly. One of them is World of Tanks. I ported the game a decade ago and played it a lot then, also with high frame rates with over… Read more »

A quick heads up regarding the cool Virtual Machine Parallels Desktop. Good Virtual Machines like Parallels Desktop aren’t go cheap, so every discount is appreciated. And now you can get 35% off! That’s quite a discount. Play many games which don’t run on Porting Kit or Crossover or with much… Read more »

Some bad news for hardcore battle.net gamers. Because of an update of battle.net recently, the client doesn’t seem to work anymore. They broke the application in wine making in it broken in the game ports like the Diablo series and Warcraft games. We are looking at a fix at the… Read more »

Happy Easter everyone!!… Read more The post Happy Easter! appeared first on Paulthetall.com. Read more »

Great news for the people who know the game Dino Crisis. Because, yes now it recently has been released on GOG.com I created a port for Dino Crisis for Mac! Yes, it also works very nice on Apple Silicon Macs! At least if you also apply the usual software based… Read more »

Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb received a wrapper update this weekend. It had somehow a crash on startup issue on Appel Silicon Macs. It mostly has been concerned with a bug in Porting Kit which now has a workaround. This fix has also been confirmed by the one notifying… Read more »

Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssee (now 50% off!) wasn’t playable on Apple Silicon yet because of the low resolution support issues which Apple Silicon has. Now with this “ddraw” update it has now been made officially Apple Silicon compatible now! This is great news! I played the game a bit on my… Read more »

Oddworld – Abe’s Exodus (now 50% off!) wasn’t playable on Apple Silicon yet because of the low resolution support issues which Apple Silicon has. Now with this “ddraw” update it has now been made officially Apple Silicon compatible now! This is great news! I played the game a bit on… Read more »

It seems that recently GOG updated their game Dungeon Keeper 2 in their game database. With the update it has now also a bunch of startup flags which wasn’t in the previous release. Most likely these flags are now required to be able to start-up the game. This issue has… Read more »

Another game port fix for today. This time a startup fix has been implemented for Apple Silicon/Intel Macs for the game Anno 1404 Gold. The game suffered from a startup error, which was caused because of the Directx handling of the game (Directx10 by default). For Intel based Macs the… Read more »