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Download your Steam Windows Game files on Mac

Legal way to overcome Steam’s Platform detection and «Invalid Platform» errors.

Oliver 20. October 2024
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Emulate Windows 3.1 using DOSBox-X on macOS

A quick guide how-to install & boot it, in order to run old software.

Oliver 18. April 2024
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Ubisoft Connect Beta: disable & revert it after activation

I accidentally activated the new Ubisoft Connect Beta – what could go wrong, right? Well, CrossOver on Mac seems not to handle it well yet. But how can you roll back to the OLD Ubisoft Connect, if all you see is a broken interface? Here’s how.

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Oliver 18. March 2024
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In macOS format a USB flash drive to use on Windows and Macs

Choose these formatting options in Disk Utility for creating a cross-platform compatible external volume.

Oliver 21. August 2023
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Windows «Print Screen»-shortcut in macOS Boot Camp using an Apple Keyboard

A built-in solution to replicate the behaviour of the dedicated PrtScn-key button.

Oliver 30. November 2021
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Make a Windows compatible ISO disk image with macOS

An easy to use solution with the Apple Disk Utility app & a little trick on Windows.

Oliver 27. October 2021
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare performance tuning for an iMac 5K & Radeon Pro 580

This guide explains how to achieve 60 FPS in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019 when playing on an iMac 5K Retina with Bootcamp

Oliver 9. October 2020
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Make an ISO disk image in macOS Catalina

Using the Terminal in macOS Catalina to quickly create an ISO disk image of a CD/DVD or any folder from Finder.

Oliver 28. February 2020
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macOS Mojave - Not connecting to SMB Fileshare

Connecting an SMB fileshare in macOS not working? Here is a workaround.

Workaround to overcome a stalled “Connecting to smb://server…”-dialogue in macOS Mojave 10.14 when trying to connect Windows Samba fileshares in Finder

Oliver 10. September 2018
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Quake III Arena with High Definition Graphics & 120 FPS on 5k resolution

This guide contains everything you need to know & configure, in order to run Quake III Arena with HD Graphics and 120 FPS or more.

Oliver 29. April 2018
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