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.
