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Marco,
Thank you, I forgot about Wine (Darwine).
So has anyone used Blackbox on Mac OS X
with Darwine?
-Doug Danforth
Marco Oetken wrote:
> Hello all!
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm about to jump ship and buy an Intel based Mac laptop
>> with boot camp so I can run Windows XP to preserve my
>> Blackbox code.
>
> Currently one of those Intel based Macs is favourite for becoming
> my next desktop pc. Unfortunately there have been problems
> with Windows on Mac Pro machines and I am not sure if the
> latest boot camp update fixes all problems. Apple provides
> drivers for its hardware, but main target still remains Mac OS X,
> and you might have to wait some time while problems with
> windows based pcs are unlikely.
>
> If you want to use certain hardware, you should also consider
> problems due to incompatible hardware interfaces or missing
> drivers.
>
>>
>> Does anyone have Blackbox running on an Apple machine
>> using boot camp? If so what is your experience with it?
>>
>> Also, is anyone attempting to port Blackbox to Apple?
>
> There have been mails with topic "BlackBox on Linux (using Wine)"
> in September. Since Bernhard Treutwein states that BlackBox runs
> nice under Wine it should run under Mac OS X, too. Wine is reported
> to work under Mac OS X. It probably requires usage of X windows,
> which is probably not as nice as Macs native UI. Apropos UI: as opposed
> to native software ported software frequently requires inconvenient
> keystrokes or an external multi button mouse (which also works well
> with Mac OS X).
>
> Greetings,
> Marco
>
>>
>> -Doug Danforth
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