since I'm thinking about getting a mac mini, in the hardware forum someone told me to get windows11 arm version if I want to play Jim Kitchen's games and other audio games. Can windows11 arm version run on a mac somehow? Is it better to use wine, or run windows11 in a vm? What would give the best support to play old games and run some older x86 software on a mac, this includes decTalk and bestSpeech tts speak window apps so I can continue to use those old tts engines. a quick google search told me that standard windows apps do run on windows11 arm version.
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mame on mac
I also need to be able to run mame on a mac, specifically this mame emulator...
https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/pc.tar.gz
an ms-dos emulator full of games, comes complete with emulated decTalk pc card and several dos screen readers.
Prism Translation Layer
The ARM version of Windows 11 includes an X86 and X86-64 emulation layer called Prism that's similar to Rosetta II on macOS. This means you can run most Windows software, even if it's not natively compatible with the ARM64 architecture. Wine is very complicated to configure if you're blind, and some programs refuse to run at all, so if you want maximum compatibility, virtualize Windows and run all your software that way.
windows11 arm on macOS
do you need some sort of virtualization software to run windows11 arm on macOS? and does windows11 arm support sapi4 and sapi5 tts engines? many audio games need sapi 5 tts.