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CrossOver is Awesome :)
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I am about to buy an iMac for my wife but she will want to run some older Win95/98 games and such (Scrabble v1, Shanghai Great Moments, Hodj'n'Podj, Mahjong for Windows, even MS Solitaire and Minesweeper). I have a bootable copy of Win98SE that I can use with Parallels or VMware, but was wondering about how Crossover would work. I have worked on her a long time to let me change her to a Mac (she is the last holdout in our house) and want to make the transition as smooth as possible. How do you install programs that are not "officially" supported and not listed in the installer? Does anybody have experience with any of the games listed? Thanks.
I don't have experience with those games, but sounds like this is the perfect example of why this program is a necessity.
As far as installing programs that are not listed, you simply point to the windows installer file or folder on your HDD or CD, and it will find the setup file and install from it. Fairly simple, really.
OK, thanks for that. I think I will download the 30-day trial when I get her iMac and see how it works.
Half Life 2
For anyone who wants to know, I just downloaded the trial version and then installed Half Life 2 and it runs amazingly. The install was painless, even though I was a afraid that it wasn't going to work because program is not officially supported.
-There were a few hiccups during the game play like the beginning video does not play and the initial load up of the game takes a few minutes. But loading times between levels are relativity quick Right now the resolution is at 800 but I think I'm going to try to take that up a notch
-Other thing I'd notice while running HL2 under CrossOver is that my fans didn't go to full blast. While if I play Halo or the Prey demo after a few minutes the fans start to sound like jet engines. One would think that running HL2 under emulation would take would put more strain on the computer then running a game native on .
-Once again I am simply mystified by a programmers ability to run this game on OSX without the need to install Windows.
P.S. I have MacBook Pro 2.33GHz; Core Duo 2, 2G Ram
-After my trial version of crossOver is over I will probably buy it. I mean seriously you have the benefits of running windows programs without ever having to touch windows. Means I still don't have to worry about buying a copy of XP and worrying about maintaining it (viruses, adware, and such).
Anyways this is a lovely program, and if it works with such complicated programs like Half Life 2 which require direct x, and audio, video, and access to the internet.
Sorry this makes me just so happy because it gives me the reason to never even use windows ever again!
For anyone who wants to know, I just downloaded the trial version and then installed Half Life 2 and it runs amazingly. The install was painless, even though I was a afraid that it wasn't going to work because program is not officially supported.
-There were a few hiccups during the game play like the beginning video does not play and the initial load up of the game takes a few minutes. But loading times between levels are relativity quick Right now the resolution is at 800 but I think I'm going to try to take that up a notch
-Other thing I'd notice while running HL2 under CrossOver is that my fans didn't go to full blast. While if I play Halo or the Prey demo after a few minutes the fans start to sound like jet engines. One would think that running HL2 under emulation would take would put more strain on the computer then running a game native on .
-Once again I am simply mystified by a programmers ability to run this game on OSX without the need to install Windows.
P.S. I have MacBook Pro 2.33GHz; Core Duo 2, 2G Ram
-After my trial version of crossOver is over I will probably buy it. I mean seriously you have the benefits of running windows programs without ever having to touch windows. Means I still don't have to worry about buying a copy of XP and worrying about maintaining it (viruses, adware, and such).
Anyways this is a lovely program, and if it works with such complicated programs like Half Life 2 which require direct x, and audio, video, and access to the internet.
Sorry this makes me just so happy because it gives me the reason to never even use windows ever again!