Xtreme on a Mac

[gnurf]

...and my follow-up question: if it runs under wine, does it run on Linux (for example latest Ubuntu?). Anyway, if you get Xara Xtreme Pro to run on Mac or Linux then my Windows is out the windows!

and BTW, nice hearing from you again Jens!

[jens g.r. benthien]

Paul,

well, it installs but it does have flaws. I've got error messages I've never seen on my PC, the handle bars are almost invisible, the cursor movements are sometimes weird... in short words: Crossover is like a walking stick, you won't be able to make a 100 m run with it.

So I'll stick to original Mac apps and see what I can do. Maybe some day in the future we will see a native Mac version.

Oh, btw, I used Xtreme 3.x for the installation because someone else posted in a forum that Xtreme 4.x doesn't run.

Anyway, heads and thumbs up - the future will tell if Magix will do some magic

[Spinny]

What if we were okay with installing a buggy OS over a nice one? Has anyone had success running Xtreme on a Mac either with VMWare or Boot Camp? Certainly less than an ideal situation, but is it possible?

[Soquili]

Spinny an old post by Charles Moir may provide some insight to using Xtreme on a Mac.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost...81&postcount=4

VMWare showed improvement over Parallels using Xtreme on a Mac. Not sure about Bootcamp.

[remi]

Isn't VirtualBox much more popular (since it's free)?

Remi

[Soquili]

Thanks for the link Remi. I had not thought about VirtualBox.

The supported OS list is impressive. OS2 Warp is a blast from the past.

About 13 years ago the company I worked for had six machines running OS2 Warp to provide a Windows interface to the Unix like OS we ran on DEC 7000 minicomputers. The call center operators used windows computers in their cubicles. The OS2 machines translated the Windows requests for the DEC 7000s and created custom Windows forms to be sent to the Windows machines.

[jens g.r. benthien]

All the virtual machine approaches have one big drawback: they require that you install sloppy Windoze on a perfect machine and OS. In addition, you need a licence of Windoze which adds up to the overall costs.

Let's do the math: VMWare Fusion 2 some 80 Euros, plus Windoze XP Pro some 160 Euros, plus Xara Xtreme Pro some 180 Euros I guess (didn't check the prices for a long time though)

Total investment around 420 Euros plus the hassle and time to install the buggy Windoze plus the space it's eating up on your hard drive.

NOPE.

I'd rather spend 300 Euros for a XaraMac version and have a CLEAN system.

[Spinny]

I blew right past Remi's post when mine went to page two. That link certainly looks very interesting, thanks!

[Jparshall]

I'm a huge Xara fan--have been using it continuously since 1995. But sadly it does not run well under CrossOver, which is kind of a bummer, considering I'm the COO of CodeWeavers. I have very cordial relations with Charles at Xara, and I test their stuff on our stuff every so often, but the bottom line is that it would take engineering hours here at the ranch to make Xara go, and the engineers are all working on product-related stuff and/or paying work for big customers. Hence, no go.

One of these days it'll just start to work, I'll bet. That's the way of things with Wine: you fix a bug in App A and suddenly Apps X, Y, and Z start running as well. So my sense is that it's gonna start working at some point. But that point isn't right now, sadly.

Thanks for your interest in the topic.

Cheers,

-jon parshall-
COO
www.codeweavers.com
"Your Mac/Windows solution"

[MarcT]

but the bottom line is that it would take engineering hours here at the ranch to make Xara go

But wouldn't that result in more sales for crossover?

Marc