After many unsuccessful attempts to run the original Baldur's Gate 1 on my M1 Macbook Air using Wineskin, PlayOnMac and even bare-bones Wine I gave up and bought the Enhanced Edition here on GOG (as it includes the classic Baldur's Gate too).

I installed BG: The Original Saga through GOG Galaxy and it just doesn't work. Game doesn't even start.

I tried solutions from these threads:
{Sadly GOG forums told me I can't post any links for now, I will add them ASAP :C}

But none of them works.

So, is there any way to run The Original Saga on M1 Mac with OS X Sonoma?

Download the dmg packages from your library. It runs great on my M1 Mac mini through Rosetta 2.

at the end of the day this game was made to run on Intel so you have to maquiver it

Thanks, I'll try Rosetta 2 then, since Parallels gets my Mac very hot