I am having trouble reistering for the Wine (software) Forum. One answer I cannot get it to accept, see attachment. The hint does not help. Please can anyone help please?
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Windows, Wine is used to run windows programs in linux and OSX.
If you're looking for open source VM software you might also take a look at Virtual Box:
Don't quite understand your reply sorry. I just need the answer to the question that is acceptable.
Tried Virtualbox and is is jerky with Sopcast.
anthonyfromdf wrote:
Don't quite understand your reply sorry. I just need the answer to the question that is acceptable.
The answer to the question is:
Windows
anthonyfromdf wrote:
Tried Virtualbox and is is jerky with Sopcast.
Parallels has a coherence mode that allows you to run Windows applications directly on the OS X desktop, although you would need to have Windows installed in a Parallels virtual machine.
Thank you, but I am trying to avoid buying Windows in the future since I only need it for Sopcast. I have tried Parallels, it is good but not what I want to do.
anthonyfromdf wrote:
Thank you, but I am trying to avoid buying Windows in the future since I only need it for Sopcast. I have tried Parallels, it is good but not what I want to do.
Wine is probably your only option in that case. Windows is absurdly overpriced, especially if you only need to run one Windows app in OS X. It's too bad Sopcast doesn't have a player that works in OS X.
Yes it seems Wine is the best option for me. We need to start a campaign to get Sopcast to create a Mac OS X version. I did ask them a year or so ago if they had any plans to do that but they replied in the negative, wether they will change they minds is debatable.
I'd assume you could port it yourself using Wineskin since its listed as working decently with Wine.
I don't understand Wineskin but you download winebottle and this includes Wine and Winebottler. You need both but have not used the winebottler part. See this link:
It has graphic instructions as well. You use VLC through Sopcast but start with VLC version 1 as I have not got the new version 2 to work yet. There is a good help forum included.
anthonyfromdf wrote:
I don't understand Wineskin but you download winebottle and this includes Wine and Winebottler. You need both but have not used the winebottler part.
WineBottler is old and not kept up with. Wine.app that comes with WineBottler is part of WineBottler... it is not an official build of Wine from WineHQ.org... Unless the creator ever gets around to updating anything, I'd not recommend using it. He hasn't even updated his blog since October 2010, and hasn't updated any of this WineBottler stuff since before that.
Wineskin is actually pretty simple. You download Wineskin Winery, and it allows you to download a Master Wrapper version (the latest version) and then there are many Engines available made from Wine. You are not stuck to a signle Wine version, there are many many, and you can even take Wine source code and build your own if needed.
Once you create a wrapper out of Wineskin Winery, its just like a normal Mac app. In it you can install what Windows software you need easily and keep using it like a normal Mac app... its fully self contained.
Hi I will try and report back.
Could you give me more step by step instructions for Winerskin as I am struggling with it. I has Wineskin Winery in My Aplications folder but when I loaded Sopcast it changed to a Sopcast icon. I loaded IE 8 but only found it after right clicking on "shoe contents", but then it fail to connect to the internet. Sopcast opened by itself but crashed when I tried to connect.
It looks as though you need IE 7 rather than any newer version is needed to work Wineskin.
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