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TurtleSilicon

A user-friendly launcher for Turtle WoW on Apple Silicon Macs, with one-click patching of winerosetta, rosettax87 and d9vk.

Credits

All credit for the core translation layer winerosetta goes to LifeisAwful. This application is merely a Fyne-based GUI wrapper to simplify the patching and launching process. https://github.com/Lifeisawful/winerosetta

Features & Highlights

  • Run 32-bit DirectX9 World of Warcraft (v1.12) on Apple Silicon: Enjoy the classic WoW experience on your modern Mac without "illegal instruction" errors.
  • Significant Performance Boost:
    • Utilizes the rosettax87 hack by LifeisAwful to accelerate x87 FPU instructions.
    • Integrates d9vk (a fork of DXVK for MoltenVK) by Kegworks-App, enabling DirectX9 to run much more efficiently on Apple Silicon via Vulkan and Metal.
    • Experience a massive FPS increase: from around 20 FPS in unoptimized environments to up to 200 FPS (a 10x improvement!) in many areas.
  • One-Click Patching: Simplifies the setup process for both CrossOver and your Turtle WoW installation.

Build Instructions

To build this application yourself, you will need:

  1. Go: Make sure you have Go installed on your system. You can download it from golang.org.
  2. Fyne: Install the Fyne toolkit and its dependencies by following the instructions on the Fyne website.

Once Go and Fyne are set up, navigate to the project directory in your terminal and run the following command to build the application for Apple Silicon (ARM64) macOS:

GOOS=darwin GOARCH=arm64 fyne package

This will create a TurtleSilicon.app file in the project directory, which you can then run.

Make sure you have an Icon.png file in the root of the project directory before building.

Bundled Binaries

The rosettax87 and winerosetta (d3d9.dll) components included in this application are precompiled for convenience. If you prefer, you can compile them yourself by following the instructions provided by LifeIsAwful on the official winerosetta repository: https://github.com/Lifeisawful/winerosetta