Jun 01
I get to test Crossover for Mac!
Fortune has smiled upon me and I was selected to be an early tester of Codeweavers Crossover product for the Mac. (The link is to the Linux version, no Mac product page available yet!)
So far, I have been able to run quite a few apps to some degree or another, which is pretty amazing. The list includes:
- Office 2003 - Mixed success. Word runs, but has some font and occasional crashing issues; Outlook is in a bad way (but CW knows this and is working on it). Excel and PowerPoint seemed to work quite well!
- Mirc (for fun!)
- FlashFXP - Runs surprisingly well, was able to do file transfers and other activities at pretty much full speed
- FastStone Image Viewer - Was able to browse thumbnails, perform image editing functions, etc.
All in all, it’s pretty amazing for a first alpha.
It has lots of helpful features, like…
- software installation wizard: helps install software from CD, folder, or .exe or (in some cases) will pull the files right off the net.
- Crossover Menu: adds all of your programs into a special Crossover menu for quick launching. However, at this stage the menu is IN Crossover, which is kind of annoying
They are working on an exporter that will put app aliases right on your desktop or elsewhere - file associations(!): When I copy over .doc and .xls files, they get actual Word/Excel icons and opening them launches Crossover+Word (or Excel). Tres cool!
At any rate, it’s early going, but looking VERY promising. Maybe I won’t need Parallels
for all of my apps
If you have requests for screenshots, or specific apps you want tested, let me know! Email wordpress c/o richardgoodwin.com
Update: AOL 9.0 Screenshot as requested…
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June 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 pm
can you please try yahoo messenger 7.0 or 7.5?
June 9th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Sorry guy, it doesn’t seem to work. However, there is a PPC binary of Yahoo for OS X already, and various other IM solutions of course…
June 24th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
I am very intetested in your post about crossover.
May I have some screenshots. It could be wonderful to see how it works !!!
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Hi from sunny Bahrain
enjoyed your post, this is graet news for those of us not wishing to add to MS coffers by GBP £150 for awindows copy! Can you try Ms Access please? Either from Office XP or 2003. Many thanks
July 4th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Yes i agree with Noor: Could you try with Ms Access, because the only one reason to install Parrallels or boot camp is for use Ms Access in my case! I’m waiting impatiently your answer! Thanks per advance ofr your contribution
July 8th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Can u try aol 9.0 security edtion and put up a screenshout
July 8th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
can u test microsoft paint too.
July 14th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Ok, in order…
Office 2003 in general is working pretty well, and Codeweavers won’t release if it’s not from what I can see. However there are still random crashes and Visio in particular is very finicky. From the current (Alpha 2) readme it sounds like Outlook is still pretty picky as well. When the next CrossOver test version comes out I’ll try it again. Right now I’m running everything in Parallels and so I dont need Office on the Mac side
I just copied it from my XP install and tried to run it, but not sure if it depends on some additional files or anything.
Microsoft Paint: It doesn’t seem to run but it’s probably something I’m doing
AOL 9.0 fails to even download the initial installer (see screenshot in post).
July 14th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
try a setup disk for aol 9.0 and i dont think copying ms paint for the setup disk but u might find a download and if i find one ill tell u. or a difrent paint softwere might work.
July 14th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
and aol still dont work than try a diffrent version. and if it still dont work than i guess thats all you can do.
July 14th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
ok i cant find any downloads but you said u copyed it form microsoft windows softwere well. insted of copying than on the crossover softwere installer try to select the softwere from the windows setup files. also try to download it onto the windows opreating system than try finding it on the hard drive throught crossover softwere installer. thank you for the first part of info
July 21st, 2006 at 8:57 pm
and can u put up a screenshout of the microsoft office assintants all of the ones you can access
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