A free alternative to CrossOver

osxEQL

A free tool for running EverQuest Legends on a Mac.

EQL is a Windows game. osxEQL runs it on Apple Silicon with open-source Wine and DXMT, instead of a paid CrossOver license. The game is not included.

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What you need

An Apple Silicon Mac — M1 or newer, macOS 13+. Intel is not supported.
A Daybreak account and the official EQLegends_setup.exe.
About 10 GB of disk space for the client.

Install

Download the latest .dmg from Releases. Drag osxEQL into Applications.
The app is unsigned, so macOS blocks the first open — “damaged,” or “can’t be opened.” Clear the quarantine flag once, in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/osxEQL.app
Open osxEQL and point it at EQLegends_setup.exe. It runs Daybreak’s installer, then opens the launcher. Later launches open the launcher directly.

How it works

eqgame.exe is a 64-bit Direct3D 11 binary. Wine runs it; DXMT turns its D3D11 calls into Metal. Both are bundled in osxEQL.app; nothing else to install. The prefix and the client live under ~/Library/Application Support/osxEQL/.

Wine

Runs the Windows binary

Compiled from CodeWeavers’ published LGPL source. That tree exports macdrv_functions, which DXMT needs to attach a Metal view; upstream Wine does not.

DXMT

Direct3D 11 → Metal

3Shain’s translator, open source, in place of Apple’s proprietary D3DMetal. It replaces Wine’s d3d11, d3d10core and dxgi. osxEQL pins v0.80.

Free and open source

Price: Free.
Code: osxEQL is MIT. Wine is LGPL-2.1, DXMT is LGPL-2.1+, both built from published source. Third-party notices.
The game: Not included. Buy it from Daybreak.

osxEQL is unofficial and fan-made. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Daybreak Game Company, Game Jawn, CodeWeavers, or Apple. EverQuest Legends is © Daybreak Game Company.