Notes for Apple Mac and linux/unix users
Apple
Mac support - Drumlin provides a new program startup shortcut "Drumlin
Reader (for Mac users)" that enables Mac users running Windows support software
to run Drumlin. This shortcut simply runs the standard Drumlin program with
the command line argument "-mac". To use this simply drag the shortcut to your Desktop and
use it in preference to the standard Drumlin shortcut. If you have
installed earlier versions of Drumlin and are now installing the
current Version 4 release, you will need to delete your old Languages files
(in \Drumlin Reader\Languages ) and the installation process will place new files in this
location for you.
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).
Apple's website states:
"Boot Camp comes with every new Mac, and it lets you run Windows natively
— as if your Mac were a PC. If you want to run
Mac OS X and Windows side by side, you can purchase Parallels Desktop for Mac or
VMware Fusion. Install one of these applications, along with the Windows
Installation CDs, and you can run the occasional Windows program right next to
your Mac applications, without having to restart. "
LINKS:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.htmlhttp://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/ and
http://www.parallels.com/
Some user comments
Mac User 1:
My current Mac is several 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.
Mac User 2:
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
