I tried launching NVDA on my Mac using Wine. I heard the tone indicating NVDA heh started but nothing else after that. I had a large follower base on twitter before sacking an old account. I asked if anyone had used Wine successfully. The general consensus seemed to be that it wasn't usable. Some suggested I run VMWare Fusion instead. I have my own views on this as an alternative, but that's another thread entirely.
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > I haven't used it but that is supposed to be the gist of it. It emulates the > windows APIs (application programming interfaces) so that windows apps can > run without actually having windows installed. This is the idea behind > Crossover > > http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ > > which is based on WINE. In theory then you have much less overhead since they > are just presenting Windows APIs and mapping them to OSX APIs instead of > emulating the entire OS. I suspect this method of emulation would fail for > voiceover or jaws since VO won't be able to access windows apps (unless they > are emulating MSAA, which I doubt) and Jaws won't have a full screen to > inject their video intercept and get their fingers into. Crossover has a full > demo if you want to give it a whirl. > > CB > > On 8/15/12 8:57 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: >> Okay, >> >> Anybody here ever heard of Wine? It's supposed to be a windows imulater >> that lets you run windows software on a Mac without actually installing >> windows. I believe that part of it involves Terminal work; but, not sure. >> anybody know what I'm refering to; and, how accessible it is? >> >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >> >> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! >> >> Skype name: >> barefootedray >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
