QEMU Classic Retro Games on MacBook Air M1 -- Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (2000)
Westwood Studio iconic world war themed RTS series Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (2000) had what made PC gaming apart from consoles in action-thrilled RTS genre. While in real world, no one could have ever hoped for the clash of military mights among any super-power nations, the C&C series was one of its kind a memorable nostalgia for many PC gamers for a World in Wars. So which was the Sexier Chick for the "special military briefing" at nights, Agent Tanya or Lieutenant Eva? π
QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx effortlessly brings yet another masterpiece of PC game into Apple Silicon macOS in pristine condition for those who already owned the game in retailed 2-CD version. Just rip the CD, install the game in Windows XP VM and start playing. No fans' mods and additional patches are necessary, simple & straight-forward. The Game CPU requirement of Pentium II 266MHz can be easily met even on the fan-less, baseline model of 2020 MacBook Air M1. This isn't a game that makes use of 3D acceleration but WineD3D DirectDraw on OpenGL backend does help out in 2D blitting for this game, enabling high-resolution and high-quality visuals gameplay. Meanwhile, the whatever "TRASH"Boxes or "JUNK_PC"em would keep on telling the **\*BS\*** "Your CPU isn't fast enough to emulate Pentium II" for a 20+-year old PC game.π€£
Of course, there is no need to have QEMU for playing C&C Red Alert 2 on Apple Silicon macOS, Parallel Desktop works, too. And for such a popular title, the C&C fans community had already made patches for the game to be compatible on modern Windows.
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