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Play games on a MacBook? Why not?

Khronos is making that possible. The Khronos Group announced that the Vulkan Working Group's Portability Initiative has been working with Khronos members Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop to enable Vulkan applications to be ported to Apple platforms. The Vulkan Portability resource page (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/portability-initiative) links to a collection of free and open source set of tools, SDKs, and runtime libraries ...

Jon Peddie

Khronos is making that possible. The Khronos Group announced that the Vulkan Working Group's Portability Initiative has been working with Khronos members Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop to enable Vulkan applications to be ported to Apple platforms. The Vulkan Portability resource page (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/portability-initiative) links to a collection of free and open source set of tools, SDKs, and runtime libraries to enable Vulkan development on macOS and deployment on macOS and iOS platforms. Valve is extending Dota 2 using the Vulkan tools on macOS to achieve significantly higher performance than native OpenGL drivers. Vulkan support for Dota 2 on macOS
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