My friend was gifted a new MacBook Air (M1) and was not too happy about it because of the incompatibility of most games (small ones) and apps he had on his old and not anymore working pc with Windows. Of all the solutions we tried, Crossover seemed to be the only one working.
After some months, some days ago, he wasn't able to boot up some apps and (don't remember if it was just one or more) for games (which worked as .exe files) it also says there is an error, with the message "ha ritornato 52" (in Italian, our language) which in english is "has returned 52", I belive; no information found about it.
Point is he can't use Crossover anymore. We tried reinstalling it several times, and we tried reinstalling some apps, nothing worked, same errors.
Additional information is that in reinstalling and extracting a specific game, inside a folder named "ModUploader", a folder named "macOS" that wasn't supposed to be empty was, in fact, empty (checked by comparing my files on Windows with his files on mac).
I don't really know if it is an indication of what is happening to his mac but it seems that his computer doesn't want to extract these files.
In conclusion; I don't know if it is a problem with Crossover or with his computer but it worked fine until now. The only thing we haven't yet tried is to reset the whole pc.
Also, if someone knows of working alternatives for playing games and using windows apps on M1 Mac and wants to lend a had we would be happy to be assisted and/or guided. Thank you.