Beta Testers asked to test games in Porting Kit on Mac OS 14 Sonoma!

Busy times for us. Crossover 23 has hit the streets and we are working hard to get an CX23 Engine. On the other side, we have Mac OS 14 Sonoma coming up soon which will have a big impact because only CX22 and CX23 engines are compatible with the OS.

Yes, this is miserable (Yeah, Apple is good in causing headaches in quite some new Mac OS releases or updates :P), because we had earlier quite larger range of engines we could use for a game (CX19/CX20/CX21/CX22) and now this is reduced to only 2! What does this mean? Well luckily most games will work fine or even better in CX22 or CX23, however, there are a bunch of games which or will work better in the older engines, or even not work at all! To get a better picture of those, we need testers to see if all the games also work in Mac OS 14 Sonoma. So when there are ports broken, I can take a look and trying to fix them again.

Then there is more bad news….its gets harder and harder to keep compatibility with older Mac OS versions. So to support Sonoma we have to drop support for a growing number of games on Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra and 10.14 Mojave. So only complete support for Mac OS 10.15.4 Catalina and up! This “drop” will not be happing straight away when CX23 arrives, but games/game clients requiring that engine to work (like Ubisoft Connect/EA App/Steam), will be updated with that engine (when ready), and this drops support for those games for High Sierra 10.13 and Mojave 10.14. Why try keeping as much games supported for High Sierra and Mojave, but through time this will only decrease. In short, when you Mac is Catalina capable, make sure to upgrade to at least Mac OS 10.15.4 to have full support for the games.

To help testing, there is no need for applying or something, simply set “Enable experimental options” in the Portingkit preferences (Installing ports in Porting Kit will only work in Sonoma in Experimental mode at the moment) and update to the latest public beta of Sonoma and reinstall the game in porting Kit and check if your games are still working. Both yes and no I like to hear from you guys and girls (use contact form in porting Kit). Thanks in advance!!

We hope this way that when Mac OS Sonoma 14 hits the streets, we have as many game ports as possible Sonoma ready.

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