Re: MetaCard om mac windows emulation

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

John Johnston wrote:

> My question; I do not have a PC at home, nor room for one, does MetaCard
> run on windows emulators on a mac?

Probably. ;) Reliably? Harder to tell.

> If so does anyone have an opinion on which is best?

There are two that I know of which are software-based and run in
sessions atop your Mac; there is also a PC card wich actually boots
Windows. Of the two the card, if it's available, may be the better
choice, unless your Mac has a *stack* of RAM.

But since MC works more or less the same on either system, why put
yourself through the misery of being saddled with the Win GUI?

> (I also want one which will help me get my head round
> windows, which I have never really used!)

Any Win machine or emulator will do that. You could also try running
headfirst into a brick wall 3,614 times in a row as fast as you can,
which very closely emulates the experience of running Win32 for 30
seconds.

(I can say that because I do coding on Win32. ;)

Seriously, most of what you can do on a Mac can be done in pretty much
the same way on Win, and vice versa. The biggest, most obvious
difference lies in the region of system settings, how to access them and
so on, but if you've got a working Win box sitting in front of you odds
are pretty good that, as a user, you won't have to muck about much with
things on that level... yet...

I also have an intro to PCs ("PCs for non-dummies") from the perspective
of Mac users, and interestingly enough it is aimed at teachers, though
US ones.

Find that, among other things, at

  http://www.nightwares.com/vitriol/misc.htm

Enjoy!

--WthmO