<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Note that VirtualBox can run Linux as well as Windows. Both VirtualBox and Linux are free. If you install a version of Ubuntu Linux (currently Xenial), that would run the Linux version of FieldWorks. The Linux version is built from the same codebase and has the same capabilities and can share data with the Windows version seamlessly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are others who have done this on a Mac, so there would be people who could share their experiences.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Beth Bryson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 7, 2017, at 5:18 PM, David Nash <<a href="mailto:david.nash@anu.edu.au" class="">david.nash@anu.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am happily using VirtualBox
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/">https://www.virtualbox.org</a> on my MacBookPro to run FLEx and other
Windows applications which require the .NET framework. (For
earlier/simpler Windows applications like Toolbox or LexiquePro I
use WINE <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.winehq.org/">https://www.winehq.org/</a>, because that is simpler -- when
it works!) The catch with virtualisers like VirtualBox that a
purchased Windows is required for installation.<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Jorge!
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<div class="">There are two different types of software, Windows
*emulators* and Windows *virtualisers*. An emulator is like
something that can pretend to be WIndowsy enough to run a
Windows program, whereas a virualiser actually establishes a
Windows OS living on top of your Mac OS.</div>
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<div class="">CrossOver and Wine are, I think, emulators. They run
Toolbox, but not Flex. Flex needs a virtualiser. I ran it with
a virtualiser called VMWare for a while. This was okay but it
got really slow - not sure if this was a problem inherent to
the software, or to do with running virtualisers on our
networked uni computers.</div>
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<div class="">I now just keep a basic Windows laptop just for running
Flex. Maybe this seems crazy, but such computers are pretty
cheap, and I found it to be the neatest solution.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 September 2017 at 06:35, Jorge
Emilio Rosés Labrada <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jrosesla@uwo.ca" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">jrosesla@uwo.ca</a>></span>
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<div class="">My university's IT department has suggested using
CrossOver (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/K41rBvSLnv0kh9?domain=codeweavers.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.codeweavers.com/<wbr class="">products/crossover-mac</a>)
to run the SIL Windows-only software FLEx, LexiquePro,
and SayMore on our new lab computers. </div>
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<div class="">I've done a bit of browsing online and it seems like
that won't work? I also tried installing FLEx with the
trial version of CrossOver and the installation failed
so I thought I'd send an email to the list in case
anyone has been successful in getting this to work. </div>
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<div class="">If you have gotten to work, I'd love to hear back
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<div class="">If you have not, what do you use? Parallels?
Something else?</div>
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