<p>Hi Nick, </p>
<p>VirtualBox actually does require you to have a full version of Windows, since you have to install it in the virtual environment. So, unless you have a Windows installation disk lying around, it is a lot more expensive...</p>
<p>Rik</p>
<p>---<br>
Rik De Busser<br>
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica <br>
<a href="http://www.rdbusser.org">www.rdbusser.org</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 Apr 2012 05:32, "Nick Thieberger" <<a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br>For those using Crossover to run Toolbox on a Mac: I upgraded to<br>
Crossover 11 and found that my Toolbox windows were scrambled, with no<br>
field markers displayed and weird format errors (none of which was<br>
present in the data file itself).<br>
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I reinstalled Crossover 10.1.1 and Toolbox works again. Others on the Toolbox list have reported a similar experience.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Alternatives to Crossover (that also do not require you to buy Windows) are:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span>Virtual Box and Wine, see Mark Post's message:</span><br><a href="https://groups.google.com/group/shoeboxtoolbox-field-linguists-toolbox/browse_thread/thread/dda88ad9fd27298a" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/group/shoeboxtoolbox-field-linguists-toolbox/browse_thread/thread/dda88ad9fd27298a</a><br>
<span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I have installed Wine and it seems to run fine on a Mac under 10.6.8.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
Nick</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">(Thanks to Josh on the Toolbox list for infor about Virtual Box)</div></div>
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