On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Sean Smith wrote: > > It's a lot of stuff I know but I went the standard route and: > > --first bought the Virtual Machine to load Windows: Parallels (there are > others) > > --loaded a copy of XP from the olden days when we had Windows machines. > > --bought the Fronimoes. > > This was all years ago. There may be programs to emulate or open windows that > have come out since but I don't know of them. It's a shame to have to go this > complicated for a program that runs on W. 95 --I still usually use Fronimo > 2.1-- but there you are.
Just a few weeks ago I I had to run a Windows program and installed VMware Fusion on my Mac. This does almost precisely what Sean describes, except that Windows runs in native mode on the current generation of Intel CPU based Macs. As a consequence, it runs much faster than it would in emulation mode. It's not complicated, although it's not what I would call elegant either, but it works. VMware Fusion can run a variety of different versions of Windows. > There are occasional hick-ups (printers, keyboard layouts) but it works OK. > As > a matter of fact I was just playing the r. guitar off the screen when I read > your note. ;^) I have not witnessed any hick-ups, just passing coughing fits, as occurred when I tried to use the USB port from Windows for the first time. I assume that this is standard Windows trouble and has little to do with VMware. I have not tried Fronimo, but I might eventually, if I ever overcome my aversion of MS -- how ominous an abbreviation! Peter. > > Sean > > > > On Sep 18, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Sal Salvaggio wrote: > >> Anyone out there who might be a fronimo user know of a mac program >> that reads fronimo files - just got a mac = any suggestions >> >> -- >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > the next auto-quote is: Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are God. (Jean Rostand) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
