Unearthing Halo's Mac legacy: A disastrous attempt at revival

Attempting to relive the forgotten legacy of Halo as a Mac franchise using Apple's Game Porting Toolkit turned out to be a disaster. While Halo had its early beginnings on the Mac, Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie and subsequent release of Halo: Combat Evolved as an Xbox exclusive shifted the franchise away from Apple. The Game Porting Toolkit, designed to make Windows games playable on Mac, proved to be complicated and unreliable, with performance issues, visual bugs, and usability problems. Despite the hiccups, the author was able to get The Master Chief Collection running on Mac using CrossOver, highlighting the alternate history where Apple bought Bungie and kept Halo as a Mac exclusive.