Apple Mac support - Drumlin now provides a new program startup link "Drumlin Reader (for
Mac users)" that enables Mac users running Windows support software to run
Drumlin. This link simply runs the standard Drumlin program with the command
line argument "-mac". A range of software has been tested for this
purpose - for example, please see the links below and sample Mac
user's comments (see Mac User 2 and http://www.mono-project.com/ for linux/unix notes):
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/ and
http://www.parallels.com/
My current Mac is 4 years old and
is called a “Power PC model G4.” I am running the Virtual PC 6 with Windows 2000
Pro. Virtual PC was developed by a company named Connectix back in the 90s (no
longer exists), but was bought out by Microsoft a few years ago. Microsoft then
came out with Virtual PC 7 for the Mac which was bundled with Windows XP.
Microsoft is no longer making Virtual PC for the Mac, primarily, I believe,
because when Apple switched from the Motorola processor to the Intel Duo Core
processor a couple of years ago, Apple could build Macs that could run Windows
side by side on a Mac OSX. Microsoft still supports updates for VPC 6 and 7 and
you can get updates from a few other websites, but the only place you can get
the Applications themselves is places like eBay.
I successfully installed .NET2,
then Drumlin on my VMware/fusion-based Windows XP virtual machine and ran
Drumlin using the mac startup shortcut without any problems. I registered and
have now received the registration mail. It works too in unity-mode (individual
windows programs interleaved with mac).
Everything appears to work as
expected and I notice no particular anomalies - with the exception that when you
mouse-scroll the scroll-bar in the main right-hand window doesn't scroll with
the display.
Your earlier versions of
Drumlin I had already tested on Windows booted via bootcamp without any
problems. Bootcamp is just a dual-boot switcher / bios replacement for windows
and is essentially just like running windows on mac hardware with no access to
mac os-x (i.e. an either-or dual-boot setup).
BTW: the term VirtualPC is associated with a specific
Windows emulation program produced by Microsoft that is now discontinued. It was
produced for the older Macs that were based on another chipset (PPC) and does
not work on any of the currently purchasable Intel-based Macs (since about
2006). The most common virtualisation products you've already listed. I think
there are one or two new ones such as Crossover (http://www.codeweavers.com/) and
Wine http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX).
There is also the Mono Project (http://www.mono-project.com/) which is sponsored by
Novell and aims to provide Windows support for linux/unix
platforms