Running a windows aplication on a mac

fro · Agent Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 15

I want to use paint shop pro 7 on my mac and don't want to buy microsofts emulator any one know of anything? Any responce would be apriceated

OPENSTEP · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject:

Here's a fairly exhaustive list:

http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html

bochs is the open source one, although I use VirtualPC myself for the few apps I need to run (mostly things for work that have database clients written in visual basic. AARGH)

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fro · Agent Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 15

So what do you think of virtual p.c. is it worth getting for a powerbook or will the performance be pitiful?

ovvldc · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:33 am Post subject: Re: Virual pc

knoxer · Agent Joined: May 28, 2003 Posts: 18

If you have a copy of Windows already, you could use 'Q' http://kberg.ch/q/

Q is a Cocoa front end for QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ which is a fairly powerful emulator. You won't quite get the performance of VirtualPC, but close.

It's free, being actively developed, and it works. I use it to run AutoCAD in Windows 2000, but I hear it's a lot faster with older versions of Windows.

fro · Agent Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 15

Ok i'll try qemu thing i'll let you know of any problems. Is their any terminal work or compliling stuff like.

knoxer · Agent Joined: May 28, 2003 Posts: 18

There's no terminal work or compiling required, in fact, Q is a drag and drop install. And there's no need to install QEMU seperately, it's included with Q.

Getting Windows installed can be a little tricky though...

OPENSTEP · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject:

The preinstalled disk images have always been a good feature of Virtual PC. I do have to admit, however, that VPC 6 was a dog with Windows XP. 2000 seemed much faster, for some reason, but nowhere near as fast as 95 (or even the old OPENSTEP/Rhapsody developer's preview Smile

). Most emulators are pretty good at emulating generic hardware, so just about any OS should run OK.

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fro · Agent Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 15

Well i tried q and it works i have windows 98 installed it is noticably slow is their any say conversion software which can change windows programs to mac. I'm using a powerbook so their isn't that much power (1.5gh). Or do different emulators run quicker than others. I still have to install paint shop pro 7 i'll see how it runs and will get back to you soon. Thanks for all your help though guys!

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

ok, so i want to try Q...

i installed it, made a disk image... now how do i install windows on that disk image? i couldn't find any how-to on that part...

knoxer · Agent Joined: May 28, 2003 Posts: 18

You need to boot the virtual machine from a windows install CD (or a disk image of a windows CD), then just follow the directions from the CD....