You can run it on m1 under x86 wine via rosetta ("wineskin") [0].

Turtles all the way down!

0: https://macresearch.org/play-dwarf-fortress-mac/

i saw someone on reddit write up getting it working repackaging the steam version it with wineskin or something like that. it was enough work that i though, “meh, i’ll wait”.

i’m not going to bother with parallels or some other emulation solution. i can be patient.

I’ll have to take you at your word because that link sent my browser into an endless refresh loop, but that is crazy. How is Wine’s performance on an M1? Asking for a friend.

Pretty good. Free trial of a commercial version here: https://www.codeweavers.com/ (I used to work there.)