Xtreme on a Mac

[abligh]

Luke, does that mean Xtreme 4.0 works under (a) Wine, (b) Crossover Office? That would be staggeringly useful. Well, not as useful as it running natively (obviously) but still staggeringly useful.

[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.

[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"

[Spinny]

That whole thread was well worth the read, thanks for the pointer. My HP graphics laptop is now on its third hard drive, second mobo and vidcard. Eventually it's going to die the final death where it's no longer cost effective to resurrect it, and I need to figure out with what I'll replace it. The 17" Mac Book Pro is looking better and better, especially now that Rhino 3D is coming out in a native Mac version. I'm with the posters in that thread who don't want to be forced into using Illustrator all the time. Been there, done that, really didn't like it.

[abligh]

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?

I run it on VMWare and it runs just fine. No problems at all. But that means I have to install Windows, and there are issues with clipboard interoperability. That's why I was interested in Luke's experience running under Wine / Crossover Office; Luke seems to have had more success than Codeweavers have.