> For now, I don't believe we'll see Simulators on the Mac in the > foreseable future, mainly because resources to port the sim seem > to be limited at PalmSource. It's safer to keep a cheap PC (and > certainly faster than running VPC, unless you have an ass-kicking > 2x2.5Ghz G5 with lots of RAM).
have you considered WINE? http://www.winehq.com/ i dont know how well it'll handle the simulators; but, i would suspect most of the code is to emulate x86 anyhow - which, may still require a pretty beefy MAC anyhow :( > Also, I got reports from a friend that after applying SP2 to > Windows XP rendered some simulators non-functional (they crash > at startup). For my part, since I only need my PC for the simulator, > I kept SP1 and everything is fine (the Zodiac simulator tended to > crash but seems to be working fine these days...) something similar to this was just posted to slashdot last night http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/01/29/2038207.shtml?tid=172&tid=201 they outline that one of the recent updates causes programs to start crashing :) the following case is for win 2000 SP4 - but, i believe you may get the same resolution/fix with XP SP2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q195009/ --- Aaron Ardiri (Skype:: callto://ardiri) PalmOS Certified Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
