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x86 Windows virtual machine for PPC & Intel Macs

Version:  2.1.3

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Well, I can't...

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Contributed by: Gene van Troyer Wednesday, March 24 2004 @ 06:27 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO


...get it to work, like Bochs itself. It's like too many Open Source, non-native OSX apps that rely on X11 or one of the other Darwin terminal apps, even if they come with binary .mpkg installers: commandline activation is frequently required, and as often as not there may be something missing or something a user failed to do and the installation doesn't work. Instructions are frequently anything but clear, and typically written for people with progamming skills. Uninstalling the stuff after it has been installed is next to impossible.

The $30 fee is a joke. Pay that and get no support? If this is available as freeware under a different label, then the $30 should at least get you support. I'll stck with Virtual PC, thanks.   

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re: Well, I can't... - cthulhu11

>commandline activation is frequently required

Oh horror! Heaven forbid that you use your keyboard!

>and as often as not there may be something missing or something a user failed to do
> and the installation doesn't work.

Funny, I use several X11 applications daily because nothing comparable is available natively, and they work just fine.

> Uninstalling the stuff after it has been installed is next to impossible.

I'm guessing that you don't use FINK.

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Thursday, March 25 2004 @ 09:43 PM PST


Well, I can't... - bdkennedy1

Well congratulations cthulhu11! You seem to be an OSX genius! The rest of us that aren't experienced with X11 and THOUGHT we were purchasing a program that is supposed to have an easy front end to Boch's will just have to bow down before you.

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Friday, March 26 2004 @ 11:09 AM PST