http://www.osnews.com/story/10780/Guest_PC_1_4_-_Ready_for_Prime_Time_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:36:07 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? What will be the use of these kind of emulators now that Apple is switching to x86, and will include functionality to run MS Windows applications? Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Mac's on x86 is still one to two years away so there is still some use for applications like this. Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? ...and will include functionality to run MS Windows applications?

Uh, I haven't seen anywhere that Apple will include the ability to run MS Windows applications...link please? Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Jobs said Windows would work on Apple hardware, not the OSX-x86 would run Windows apps. However, once OSX-x86 comes out, expect a version of WINE shortly thereafter, so it WILL have some ability to run Windows apps. Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Am I the only one who noticed there were no links in this article? I mean... at least link to Guest PC's website.

http://www.lismoresystems.com/ Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I've been a long time PC user (Windows and Linux, but mostly Windows for Games), and I've always detested the Mac interface before OS X came along, but the idea of buying a Mac is looking more attractive by the day.

Guest PC looks like it has been well thought out, little things like the unattended script it must generate to install the OS. One to watch I reckon. Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I don't think that Wine will be ported to OS X so quickly, but it doesn't matter. The fact is that with the new x86 architecture, there is no more need for processor emmulation. You can now simply emmulate a virtual machine without translating the code. 80% performance is definitely going to be a reality - it'll be like running something on Virtual PC for Windows.

I think this will be Apple's biggest gain. People could dual-boot Windows or emmulate it without a performance penalty like they do now. That will definitely ease switching. Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I wonder if Microsoft is going to realise Virtual PC for OSX x86?. I would love to have that on A Intel Mac setup!. That would give me the ultimate OS geek machine. Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Do someone knows if Guest PC is better than iemulate Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I wish omnigroup would write a project management application that can import/export ms project files. Then, I would truely have no reason to boot into windows. The wine port will be an x11 port first then maybe a native port later. Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Guest PC is MUCH better than Iemulator.

I've owned it since 1.0, and also owned Blue Label Power Emulator.

You'll get great service from Lismore, and if 1.4 is any indication, more great stuff is to come. Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Wine has been ported to MacOS X. Look here http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ So far, application support works once you compile a Windows app for Wine, the only holdback was x86 emulation, so I'd expect shortly after Intel Macs turn up that native apps will be running similarly to Wine under GNU/Linux (or other OS'es). I'd expect Cedega/CrossOver Office to be ported over without too much of a problem as well. Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? At this time, there are no plans to port Crossover to MacOS. The x86 changeover may alter that course--as I would think that it could be a HUGE cash cow for Codeweavers. But currently there are no plans. Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Why would you need crossover on the mac? Office Got it, Photoshop Got it, Flash & Shockwave Got it, Assorted Web Plug-Ins Got It. iTunes, Enogh said. All the supported apps are practicly all native on the mac. Access, Project and Visio are the only one i see that require windows and I don't sdee codeweavers moving to mac for those. Wed, 08 Jun 2005 04:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Thanks for pointing that out! Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? wow this looks like a nice eddition to MAC lookout vmware Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Nice article. Always good to hear about alternatives to Micro$oft products. Will be interesting to see what happens when Apple makes the switch to x86. I'm looking forward to them offering dual-core x86-64 boxes. Now that would be a smoking Apple indeed! Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments