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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me run Windows on Mac

by Erica Sadun (Sep 8th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I am new to the Mac community, and there are some programs that are unsupported on the Mac and I know there are a few options to run Windows on a Mac. When I search online for the best options and answers to my questions (what is the best option, do I need a Windows ...

Macworld Expo 2011: CrossOver goes to version 10 with Impersonator

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2011)

If you want to run Windows apps on your Mac, there are now a few ways to go about it. First there's Boot Camp, the official solution that will let you boot into an installed Windows partition. Then there are virtualization solutions like Parallels or VMWare, which "pretend" to be a separate hard ...

Rumor: Steam coming to the Mac?

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2010)

Telltale Games recently held a Mac revolution, and that was a nice piece of news for Mac gamers, but this would be a "game-changer": Valve may be considering bringing their Steam platform over to the Mac. They released the beta version of the new UI for their digital game delivery system, and a few ...

How to run Windows apps for free with Wine on OS X

by Aron Trimble (Jan 6th, 2010)

There are many options for running Windows programs on the Mac. Boot Camp, for instance, is included with OS X for installing Windows on a separate partition. Parallels, VMware, and Sun offer virtualization software that let you run your Windows programs without logging out of OS X. And then there's ...

CrossOver Games releases version 8.1.0

by Mike Schramm (Nov 20th, 2009)

The folks behind CrossOver Games sent us a note that version 8.1.0 of their software has come out, and it's got some nice upgrades for Mac and Linux folks who prefer to run their games in Windows almost-emulators (it's based on Wine, and as we all know, Wine Is Not an Emulator) rather than Boot ...

Codeweavers says cheap gas = free software today

by Michael Rose (Oct 27th, 2008)

Update 10/28: Welcome, Digg fans. CodeWeavers' site is getting crunched under the massive demand for the free versions of CrossOver, so there is now a minimal site at down.codeweavers.com that will accept your email address; you will be mailed your registration code in the next couple of days. --- ...

CrossOver creates Chromium just to show they can do it

by Mike Schramm (Sep 16th, 2008)

Mike Rose and I were chatting about this on the Talkcast a few weeks back -- virtualization and emulation programmers get all John Locke from Lost when you try to tell them what's not possible. And so when the guys at CrossOver heard that Google wasn't releasing Chrome for the Mac, they decided to ...

CrossOver 7 supports Office 2007, Adobe CS2 and more

by Mat Lu (Jun 17th, 2008)

CodeWeavers has released CrossOver 7.0 for Mac, adding support for Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe CS and CS2, and improving "online banking integration" in Quicken 2007 & 2008. Unlike Boot Camp or virtualization solutions like Parallels and VMware, CrossOver allows you to run Windows software on ...

Gaming-specific CrossOver coming soon

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2008)

MacWindows reports that CrossOver (which was already doing pretty well with Windows games inside OS X) is planning to release a gaming-optimized version of their virtualization software. It'll be called CrossOver Gaming, and while we're not actually given details of how it's going to be "optimized" ...

CrossOver 6.2 supports Team Fortress 2

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2007)

The latest version of CrossOver, Codeweavers' Mac and Linux application designed to get Windows games and applications working on those systems, has been released. CrossOver 6.2, now available, features a number of different updates both to increase compatibility and to make Windows applications ...

Crossover Mac to ship this week

by Michael Rose (Jan 9th, 2007)

Reader Greg Taylor advises that Codeweavers' WINE-based Win32 application runtime Crossover is due for release during Macworld. The release version should be downloadable for registered users sometime this week. It remains to be seen how well Crossover will do up against more traditional ...

Release Candidate 2 of CrossOver Mac

by Scott McNulty (Dec 28th, 2006)

The virtualization market for the Mac is hot. Crossover, a WINE link environment for Windows apps on OS X, has just released their Release Candidate 2 for public testing. Release candidates traditionally signal that a product is almost ready for primetime. I haven't had a chance to play around with ...

Crossover Mac enters Beta 2 phase

by Laurie A. Duncan (Oct 5th, 2006)

We missed this a few days ago, but Crossover Mac, CodeWeaver's WINE environment that allows you to run Windows applications along side OS X applications, with no need for virtualization, has been updated to Beta 2. What's new in b2? Lots, apparently. There are "dramatic" performance improvements ...

Half-Life 2 on Intel Macs

by Alex Wollenschlaeger (Oct 4th, 2006)

If you've sated your Tetris lust through Quinn and you're looking for something a little meatier to play, you might want to check out this kludge a CodeWeavers forumite has used to get Half-Life 2 running on an Intel Mac. Armed with the beta of CrossOver Mac, user JustinD downloaded Gordon Freeman's ...

YAMTT - Yet another Mail theme for Thunderbird

by David Chartier (Dec 31st, 2005)

Hawk Wings has tracked down another Mail theme for Thunderbird by the name of TigerMail. While I know we've blogged one before, I can't track it down. From what I remember though, TigerMail is a much more accurate reproduction of the Tiger Mail look and feel. But if Panther Mail's look and feel is ...

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