I tried crossover and Winonx, a $5 app that does the same thing. It failed to run nvda as well as the audio game (which was my primary purpose for trying it). I have given up and will be investigating virtualbox soon instead of bootcamp as I rely increasingly on the mac for day-to-day activities. I am probably going to make the big jump and copy everything over to my mac partition, then resize it, soon enough. Anyway, virtualization seems to be the best way to go; I emailed a crossover tech who said that some of the functions my game needed were not implemented into the version of Wine they were using, hence the errors. Instead of messing with all that, I'd rather just use a vm I know will work. On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Ray Foret Jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote:
> Well, since I aint installing windows on this Mac, I guess I'm out of luck > aint I? > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Rose Waagan <r...@chicksdigmacs.net> wrote: > >> 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. > > > -- > 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. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- 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.
