thanks lee. I’ll give virtual box a try.
> On May 22, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 22, 2018, at 8:24 AM, William Micou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I’m sure you would have thought of this, but are there still programs that >> emulate a vitual Window machine? What were those - Boot Camp? VM Ware? I >> haven’t heard or read much about those lately. > > There are a bunch of ways. > > Boot Camp uses a separate partition on your Mac’s hard drive to turn it into > a dual-boot machine. Using Boot Camp, your machine is either a Mac or a > Windows machine. Not both at the same time. You need a copy of Windows to use > it. > > VirtualBox, Parallels and Fusion all run Windows as a virtual machine. All > these need a copy of Windows to work. With any of these, your machine is a > Mac and Windows machine at the same time. > > I use VirtualBox because it’s free. I have Windows and Fedora Linux images on > my machine that run under VirtualBox. I rarely use it. > > Another approach is to use one of the Wine variants. Wine lets you run many > Windows programs without having Windows. It tries to map Windows operating > system calls to their Mac equivalents. It’s kind of like magically turning > Windows programs into Mac programs. > > The free open source route is WineBottler. A commercial version is Crossover > Mac. Neither works with all Windows software, so you’d better check their > compatibility lists before spending time messing with them. I’ve tried both, > and they both work pretty well—when they work. Crossover was far and away the > better of the two. But, I haven’t used either one recently. > > L^2 > > PS/ Wine started out as WINE under Linux, standing for Wine Is Not An > Emulator. > --- > Lee Larson [email protected] > > Where a calculator like the ENIAC today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes > and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes > and perhaps weigh only 1 1/2 tons. — Popular Mechanics > March 1949 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=Ayg4a6tMaj3NxExffnp9ohoIi3wzuLFucGNvPi011qI&s=fthbUgYQzM758w7dqsMavc2OPklIGNUbj_EEAV2GA0I&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
