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Old June 13th 09, 03:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Darryl Ramm
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Default SeeYou run on Apple

On Jun 13, 6:41*am, kimobear wrote:
Anybody have a good way to run SeeYou on a Apple Mac without
partioning the hard drive ?


VMware Fusion (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion) or Parallels
Desktop for Mac (http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop) both
allow Windows to run concurrently with OS X on an Intel based Mac. You
do not need to partition the disk, both can use a disk file on OS X
that will look like a disk drive to Windows. You do need to install a
copy of Windows (use Windows XP if you have a copy or can get one,
better than wasting time with Vista, and it runs faster).

Fusion does not do 3D acceleration for Open GL graphics (SeeYou is the
minority, most Windows applications use DirectX 3D graphics).
Parallels does do some Open GL hardware acceleration. VMware Fusion
is overall a better product and more stable, but then I'm highly
biased. Either case you want a fast Mac and at lots of memory since a
full copy of Windows and SeeYou are running concurently with OS X and
its apps on the Mac. These hypervisor based products have the benefit
(and disadvantage) that full Windows is runnning so you get bug for
bug behavior and any other Windows apps you need can also run. But you
have to have a Windows license, administer Windows, worry about
viruses etc. But a lot of the usual Windows hassles can be minimized
if you just keep that install really simple. You don't have to but if
somebody already has a Bootcamp Windows partition either produt can
run that Windows install without needing to reboot via Bootcamp, but
there can be some Windows hardware profile "fun" to deal with.

Wine (http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX) is another option, and can run
SeeYou on a Linux system but is not really there under Mac OS X AFAIK.

Darryl