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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>
David<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Jorge!
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<div>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>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>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"><<a
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<div>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">https://www.codeweavers.com/<wbr>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>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>If you have gotten to work, I'd love to hear back
from you.</div>
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<div>If you have not, what do you use? Parallels?
Something else?</div>
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