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Install highball with Homebrew Cask
Tool to run Windows games. Version 0.10.23 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Tool to run Windows games
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Project history and usage
Highball is a free, open-source native macOS application and CLI for creating Wine-based environments and running Windows games on Apple silicon. It combines managed compatibility engines with renderer recommendations from an open game database.
Project history
Highball was designed as an open-source macOS app and CLI around HighballKit, Wine prefixes, interchangeable renderers, declarative recipes, and a separate compatibility database. Its README presents engine independence and public, reusable data as safeguards against the fragility of earlier Mac gaming wrappers.
Adoption history
Highball targets Apple-silicon Mac users who want to run Windows games without being tied to a single Wine build. It combines a native macOS interface and CLI with Steam support, Epic integration through Legendary, and an open compatibility database.
Community game reports can be submitted with the CLI and incorporated into the separately maintained Highball database, where verified results, community reports, and predictions are distinguished.
How it is used
Users install an engine, create a Wine environment from a recipe, install or connect a game launcher, and launch games with a database-recommended renderer. Advanced users can perform the same operations through the `highball` CLI.
The application stores its engines, environments, settings, and other runtime data under `~/Library/Application Support/Highball/`.
Why package nerds care
Highball treats engines, renderer selection, recipes, and compatibility results as inspectable data. Engines are assembled from pinned upstream components, while game recipes and compatibility data are maintained separately under CC0.
Its explicit response to the 2025 archival of Whisky makes Highball especially relevant to Mac compatibility-layer enthusiasts concerned with project longevity, reproducibility, and reusable compatibility knowledge.
Timeline
- 2025: Whisky was archived, an event Highball explicitly cites as a design caution for Mac gaming wrappers.
Related projects
- Wine supplies the Windows compatibility layer.
- DXMT, D3DMetal, DXVK, and WineD3D provide alternative rendering paths.
- Legendary supplies Epic Games integration.
- highball-db stores recipes and compatibility reports.
- Whisky is cited by Highball as a related project whose 2025 archival influenced its design.
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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for highball. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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- macOS
~/Library/Application Support/Highball/
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| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
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| No executable data was present. | |||
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Version and freshness
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page generated2026-11-04
manager version0.10.23
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/gauthierpiarrette/highball
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/gauthierpiarrette/highballnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:highball |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.10.23 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/highball |
| Homepage | https://github.com/gauthierpiarrette/highball |
| Repository | https://github.com/gauthierpiarrette/highball |
| Source archive | https://github.com/gauthierpiarrette/highball/releases/download/v0.10.23/Highball.dmg |
| SHA-256 | 07fe1049b4c0b8ffca3bd79dc94228653d667975059463edbe4e02815200f639 |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | highball |
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| Auto Updates | yes |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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