September 8th, 2019 · 3 min read
With the imminent release of macOS Catalina, many of my favorite games (like Crusader Kings 2) will no longer launch because of the 32-bit to 64-bit transition1. I had but 3 options:
For a while, I’ve been booting Windows XP as a Parallels Virtual Machine from an external SSD to use some legacy apps and had good performance out of it, so I did some more research into the third option. Installing Boot Camp externally would free me from having to dedicate at least 100 GB of the internal storage to Windows and I was pleased to learn it’s apparently a thing. Spoiler alert: None of the instructions worked perfectly and I had to do a lot of trials and errors.
The setup I had in mind is this:
Here are the steps that worked for me:
Then the fun part began. The next steps were to get Boot Camp to work with my eGPU setup. Good thing I found this write-up by capybara.
Remember when Apple dropped 32-bit support in iOS 11? I lost precious data thanks to that. ↩
Apple doesn’t supply a Windows driver for Magic Mouse. If you really want to use it, use Magic Utilities. The app is good, but it’s costly and subscription-based. ↩