+1 on Wineskin. Very simple to wrap winbox.exe or STG.exe into Mac .apps. I also use Parallels with Windows 7 and leave it constantly running in the background. It gives my 16gb or RAM something to do. I game with my boys and use Parallels for that. Excellent performance.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ryan Spott <[email protected]> wrote: > I mis typed. It is wine bottler. It installs just the windows dlls that > are needed into a .app file for the Mac. > > No full windows install to muck with. > > I also use virtualbox both on servers in the DC and on my laptop if > needed. > > http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ > > ryan > > On Feb 6, 2015, at 12:40, Brett A Mansfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Oracles VirtualBox is free and works really well too. > > Thank you, > Brett A Mansfield > > On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Ryan Spott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just download wine box and make a Mac/wine app for Winbox. > > ryan > > > -- > D. Ryan Spott | Iron Goat Networks, llc > broadband | telco | colo | community > PO Box 1232 / 603 W. Stevens Sultan, WA 98284 > 360-799-0552 | gtalk:[email protected] > > On Feb 6, 2015, at 11:45, Ty Featherling <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't speak to Fusion but I am running Parallels 9 on 3 Mac Minis in the > office to run Windows 7 alongside OS X. My workstation here at the office > is a Mac Mini as well running Parallels 10 to run Win7 alongside OS X > Yosemite as a test before rolling out to the others. All work great but I > have seen better performance in Parallels 10/Yosemite. The only performance > issues I have ever had with these Minis (all Core i5) was solved with more > RAM. I run 16GB on mine and 8GB on the others and things are snappy. > > -Ty > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Dan Petermann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I use fusion at work and parallels at home on my hackintosh, both seem to >> work about the same. I know that parallels has a bit more features and >> would be better at running games. >> >> The areo interface works on both. >> >> There is virtual box, which is free. >> >> On Feb 6, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I have a macbook and a mac mini both of which I am starting to use >> > more and more. On occasion I have need to run windows software such >> > CNUT and Winbox. So what does everyone recommend for emulation >> > software on mac? How well does it work? >> >> >
