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http://www.rpgxplorer.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4636
Stating the obvious if you already know about Boot Camp but hey, not everyone knows.
http://www.rpgxplorer.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4636
Stating the obvious if you already know about Boot Camp but hey, not everyone knows.
Can you tell me a little more about this? Does Boot Camp let you use a Windows-based application? If so, are there any Mac users using Boot Camp for this particular product? Please let me know if you are. I always disregarded RPGXplorer simply b/c it seemed PC-only. Thanks.
Boot Camp was designed by Apple as a way to run Windows on the Intel Macs. Boot Camp was a beta and is now a component of OS 10.5. It doesn't run a Windows/PC program, it allows you to "reboot" your Mac hardware as a Windows machine, ie. you can't run Mac and Windows programs side by side. There is emulation software available (ex. Parallels) to run Windows programs while still in Mac OS, but I don't have any experience with it.
I should add you still need to buy a copy of Windows.
I use the Parallels software to run massive chess databases and chess-playing programs on my Intel-based MacBook Pro under Windows XP. It works very well; unlike past emulation software it runs fast enough that sorting and searching operations on a 3 millon game database are not slower than my old Alienware laptop. I do not run RPGXplorer (yet) but I have had no problems with any Windows software that will run on XP. I find being able to run XP in a window on the Mac desktop to be useful; the Parallels software supports cut and paste operations into and out of the XP window, for example. Unless the Parallels software is incompatible with Leopard I will continue to use it instead of Boot Camp; if I wanted a Wintel box I would have bought one in the first place.
I should add you still need to buy a copy of Windows.
There's where you lose me...but thanks for the info. I'll wait and see if the other poster has any luck w/ Parallels and RPGXplorer.
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Boot Camp was designed by Apple as a way to run Windows on the Intel Macs. Boot Camp was a beta and is now a component of OS 10.5. It doesn't run a Windows/PC program, it allows you to "reboot" your Mac hardware as a Windows machine, ie. you can't run Mac and Windows programs side by side. There is emulation software available (ex. Parallels) to run Windows programs while still in Mac OS, but I don't have any experience with it.
Gotta nitpick here—"emulation" is not the correct word. It suggests that some sort of translation process is happening, or that the Mac is "pretending" to run Windows. These packages really *do* run Windows and Windows applications, and use the Intel processor in the Mac exactly the same way that they do on non-Macs. No emulation required. (But an actual copy of Windows *is* required.)
Gotta nitpick here—"emulation" is not the correct word...
You're right, my brain is still back in Virtual PC mode. I guess the ironic thing nowadays is that the Intel Mac has to emulate the PowerPC chip to run older Mac software.
Boot Camp was designed by Apple as a way to run Windows on the Intel Macs. Boot Camp was a beta and is now a component of OS 10.5. It doesn't run a Windows/PC program, it allows you to "reboot" your Mac hardware as a Windows machine, ie. you can't run Mac and Windows programs side by side. There is emulation software available (ex. Parallels) to run Windows programs while still in Mac OS, but I don't have any experience with it.Gotta nitpick here—"emulation" is not the correct word. It suggests that some sort of translation process is happening, or that the Mac is "pretending" to run Windows. These packages really *do* run Windows and Windows applications, and use the Intel processor in the Mac exactly the same way that they do on non-Macs. No emulation required. (But an actual copy of Windows *is* required.)
This is very troubling news indeed, but not for the reason you might think. Already planning to get a new iMac, I now realize the world of PC games is opening up to me...if only I buy a copy of Windows. I completely forgot about the Intel chips inside.
It's going to take some major willpower to keep me away from those games. Major.
This is very troubling news indeed, but not for the reason you might think. Already planning to get a new iMac, I now realize the world of PC games is opening up to me...if only I buy a copy of Windows. I completely forgot about the Intel chips inside.
It's going to take some major willpower to keep me away from those games. Major.
As someone who spent the weekend with a Mac booted into XP for the joys of Bioshock and Orange Box (Oh Portal! it's hard to overstate my satisfaction!), I can sympathize. It's just easy enough to be doable, just enough of a nuisance booting back and forth to keep me from doing it too often.
As someone who spent the weekend with a Mac booted into XP for the joys of Bioshock and Orange Box (Oh Portal! it's hard to overstate my satisfaction!), I can sympathize. It's just easy enough to be doable, just enough of a nuisance booting back and forth to keep me from doing it too often.This is very troubling news indeed, but not for the reason you might think. Already planning to get a new iMac, I now realize the world of PC games is opening up to me...if only I buy a copy of Windows. I completely forgot about the Intel chips inside.
It's going to take some major willpower to keep me away from those games. Major.
Thanks for responding. Do you mind telling me what kind of Mac you have? It seems to me if I'm going to seriously consider this as a "bonus" feature for a new Mac, I want to make sure an iMac will do ok rather than a G5 tower, for example. And I'm guessing I can't get a copy of XP now that Vista is out, which I've not heard good things about. As for the games you mentioned, I do have a 360 :)