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[Momiji]

So I have a friend who wants to run programs for Windows, but he uses a Mac OSX. He's actually a member here, although he hasn't posted much. Anyway, are there any Windows emulators for the Mac, and which is the best, and how do you make it work? He's apparently too stubborn to ask for help for himself, so I'm going to ask in his place.

Please help, pretty pretty please?~<3

[rubah]

HAHAHA I HAVE JUST SUCCEEDED AT THIS:

Ahem.

1) get your osx dvd; run 'Optional Installs' or something like that. You will have to scroll down to find it. THIS IS THE CRUCIAL STEP. Trust me, I tore my hair out for days trying to figure out why installing xcode tools DID NOT WORK. xD

2) While installing, make absolutely sure that X11 gets installed. THIS IS ALSO CRUCIAL. hell it's all crucial.

3) Download Darwine - News

4) ???

5) profit. the ??? is because darwine runs things very slowly and sometimes crashy but you can run things such as mIRC on it! And even DCC with mirc.

elsewise you will try these things:
1) crossover
2) parallels
3) bootcamp

but those all cost money (except bootcamp if you have xp and have leopard, but I don't have leopard, and besides you'd have to actually boot into xp).

Every time I run a new app successfully in darwine I am very happy. I'm happy just getting it successfully installed, actually.

(also tell your friend to join the macserialjunkie forum. He will never go back. ever)

Also tell him that there are amazing free/shareware apps for osx that you will probably find something that means you dont' need to emulate as badly as you thought you did. Make sure you look through all those first. I can give general recommendations on certain types of programs.

[Momiji]

Well, what he really wants is to play Touhou games, but his computer lags when there are even too many windows open. So...I suppose since the emulator is slow and crashy, something like Touhou would absolutely crash it?

[Mirage]

Tell him to get a real computer, not a piece of fashion.

[o_O]

Well, OSX is UNIX-like, therefore better than Windows.

A real OS is Gentoo Linux though.

[Pureghetto]

As I understand it, you can install windows on the mac

[crono_logical]

Isn't there something like WINE for OSX yet? I think there might be WINE is the way to play Touhou on normal linux platforms (yay touhou wiki) Failing that, if you don't want to dualboot and whatnot, you could try VirtualBox and install a full copy of Windows in that - dunno what the performance would be like but hey, if it's slow, that'd make playing touhou in Lunatic mode much easier

[Momiji]

Originally Posted by crono_logical ^

Isn't there something like WINE for OSX yet? I think there might be WINE is the way to play Touhou on normal linux platforms (yay touhou wiki) Failing that, if you don't want to dualboot and whatnot, you could try VirtualBox and install a full copy of Windows in that - dunno what the performance would be like but hey, if it's slow, that'd make playing touhou in Lunatic mode much easier

Well, this isn't for me. But yeah, Lunatic mode would be nice if it were slower. xD