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Teen Coder Shuts Down Free Mac App Whisky, Encourages Supporting the Paid Alternative

Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica

created: April 22, 2025, 6:43 p.m. | updated: April 25, 2025, 1:02 p.m.

As one of the most useful and well-regarded tools in a Mac gamer's toolkit, it could be seen as a great loss, but its developer hopes you'll move on with what he considers a better option: supporting CodeWeavers' CrossOver product. Ars Technica This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. "I am 18, yes, and attending Northeastern University, so it's always a balancing act between my school work and dev work," Isaac Marovitz wrote to Ars Technica. “Whisky may have been a CrossOver competitor, but that's not how we feel today,” wrote James B. Ramey. “We ‘tip our cap’ to Isaac and the impact he made to macOS gaming,” Ramey wrote, strangely choosing that colloquial salute instead of the more obvious beverage analogy for the two projects.

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