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@github-actions github-actions released this 01 Nov 16:37
v1.0.2
457cf01

Magic Kettle 1.0.2: the app has its new name and icon. This is the oldest Magic Kettle release still published, so
below is also everything Magic Kettle does.

New in this version

  • EscApp is now Magic Kettle. The app is "Magic Kettle.app", its menus, windows, site and repositories say
    Magic Kettle, and its icon is a kettle shaped like a game controller, with sparkles. The library's header reads
    "Magic Kettle — Just open it and play" in each of the app's nine languages (the tagline is dropped when the window
    is too narrow for it).
  • A fresh start. Magic Kettle keeps its games, settings and downloads in ~/Library/Application Support/MagicKettle
    and marks a game's folder with a .magickettle file. It doesn't read EscApp's folder or .escapp files: open each
    game once more and Magic Kettle sets it up again, and remove EscApp's folder when you no longer need it.
  • The app shows its icon. The release is built with Xcode 26, which understands the Icon Composer icon; an
    earlier build of 1.0.2 showed a blank icon and was withdrawn.

Everything Magic Kettle does

Games

  • Double-click a game's .exe and play. Magic Kettle reads the program, works out what it needs and picks how
    to draw it on Metal: DXMT or DXVK for DirectX 10 and 11, WineD3D for DirectX 9 and older. If the first way fails,
    the first launch tries the next one while a cover hides the game's window, then remembers what worked; later
    launches start straight away.
  • DirectX 12 games run on Apple's D3DMetal, which you add from Apple's "Evaluation environment for Windows
    games" in Settings › DirectX 12. Magic Kettle never ships or downloads it.
  • Steam and the Epic Games Store install with one button. Their games install, sign in and start through the
    store as on Windows, and appear in the library with their covers.
  • Installers and disc images (ISO, BIN/CUE) work, including old games that ask for their CD.
  • Unity, RPG Maker XP/VX/VX Ace, NW.js and Electron games. RPG Maker's Run Time Package and the Visual C++ and
    .NET runtimes a game needs are installed from their publishers only when a game needs them.
  • Japanese games start with Japanese settings and fonts.
  • Small and old games are made bigger smoothly, without changing the Mac's display, and fixed-size windows can be
    stretched by their corner. Retina is used when the game says it supports it.
  • Settings known for particular games come from MagicKettle-Games and are fetched daily.

Your Mac

  • One profile for every game, so saves and settings stay in one place (Settings › Saves).
  • Nothing about you or your games is sent anywhere. Every download of something Magic Kettle runs is checked
    against a pinned SHA-256.
  • Wine, DXVK and DXMT update themselves, daily, unless you turn off "Update components automatically" in
    Settings › General. Magic Kettle runs games on its own build of Wine 11.20 from MagicKettle-Runtime.
  • Nine languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

What to watch for

  • Games added to EscApp aren't in Magic Kettle's library until they are opened again.
  • Magic Kettle isn't notarized by Apple: the first time, open it from System Settings › Privacy & Security
    (see Download below).
  • This version can't update itself: install 1.0.4 or later by hand once.

Download

MagicKettle-1.0.2.zip, built by the release job at 457cf01. Open it and move Magic Kettle to Applications;
the README says how to open it the first time. Magic Kettle 1.0.4
and later update themselves.

  • sha256: fa2b01b99be31ecc28ee48202061c61903953f45d2f9266a07c5eaeabf86f7fd
  • size: 5018080 bytes
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