Swad Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 ~Neo dropped by in Reader News to remind us that, amidst all the iPhone/Apple TV hubbub at Macworld, CodeWeavers released the final version of CrossOver Mac 6.0. CodeWeavers states that the app... ...allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on Mac OS X. CrossOver includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing Windows software simple and fast. Once installed, your application integrates seamlessly in OS X. Just click and run your application directly from the OS X Finder. Clicking a Windows file or document — including email attachments — will launch the appropriate Windows program, allowing you to work on the files. Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license. The application is available from the CodeWeavers website for $55 or free for a 60 day trial period. It's great to see such competition in the Mac virtualization market, pitting Vmware vs. Parallels and Parallels' Converge vs. CrossOver, each one trying to outdo and improve upon their competitor's feature set. Capitalism is a beautiful thing, ain't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 So how good is this Crossover mac, anyway? I'm thinking it would be good enough to run uTorrent (hey no?) Does anyone here use Crossover, with any success? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Got the demo and will try it on Office 2002. If it works good enough for word and stuff, then I am set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Neo Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 So how good is this Crossover mac, anyway? I'm thinking it would be good enough to run uTorrent (hey no?)Does anyone here use Crossover, with any success? Yep using Counter-Strike with it! It runs perfect! The question is: Does HL2 with DirectX9 run smooth? This would be great! cYa ~Neo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Ok, does it work on PPC macs as well? That's amazing! I thought it would be dependent on x86 hardware for the instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t3mur Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Jesus almighty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Neo Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Ok, does it work on PPC macs as well? That's amazing! I thought it would be dependent on x86 hardware for the instructions. Right! Does not work with PPC-Macs, sorry! The only thing what is virtualised is the Windows API! So you still need the x86 instructions (correct me if I'm wrong )... cYa ~Neo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquanutz Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yeah, they told all of us beta users that we would get a copy of the final release.... I just checked my account and it hasn't happened... Lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesusfreak198989 Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I have been trying to get Half Life to work with no success, Neo are there any commands you have to run in steam, or setting you need to change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac-mini Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 you have to buy a serial for the beta to get the final release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Neo Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I have been trying to get Half Life to work with no success,Neo are there any commands you have to run in steam, or setting you need to change? No... just installed Steam through the setup wizard and it runs fine! Ah, and you can open ANY .exe file! A few days ago I needed a keygen and run it on Mac OS X cYa ~Neo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 No...just installed Steam through the setup wizard and it runs fine! Ah, and you can open ANY .exe file! A few days ago I needed a keygen and run it on Mac OS X cYa ~Neo Watch it, maybe you get infected bu a windows virus too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieR Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) Can this handle the CloneDVD and AnyDVD programs ˆ have used so many times with windows?? Edited January 11, 2007 by EddieR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) Nice and all, but I use very few Windoze programs. The only one I use regularly is a Battle.net bot for Warcraft III, and I run that in a fully licensed Parallels VM. The few games I play either work under Mac (WCIII) or don't run under Parallels/Crossover anyway (BF2/Halo) I'm perfectly willing to boot camp those games. So it's a great concept, but it doesn't do much for me, considering that I've already bought a full copy of Parallels. Edited January 11, 2007 by ErBiC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesusfreak198989 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Steam Installs fine, always has, but i have yet to get half life to work All I get is Gorden head half cut off the screen I've always installed through CD's so this time i am downloading it, though its slow Anyway hopefully it works Thank yall TheFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) *sigh* Only Intel macs? Damn, no Universal? Lame. EDIT: Well I didn't think about needing the X86 chip for this. Oh well. Edited January 11, 2007 by sandmanfvrga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadsport Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) Seems the same as the last beta. o_O By which I mean DarkAges goes needlessly slower than previous versions and Guild Wars simply shows a black screen. Edited January 11, 2007 by Stadsport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I still can't get HTML Kit to run on CrossOver. That's not good. They really need to play "catch-up" if they want to make a dent in Parallels's market. So far it's slower and has a lot of technical problems. Parallels is basically running an entire operating system, not just an API, and still running circles around them. It's crazy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyin916 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I still can't get HTML Kit to run on CrossOver. That's not good. They really need to play "catch-up" if they want to make a dent in Parallels's market. So far it's slower and has a lot of technical problems. Parallels is basically running an entire operating system, not just an API, and still running circles around them. It's crazy... woah! there's a market for these kinds of things? i want to hear from those readers who have run this release on an actual intel-apple computer.. everyone so far is saying "it's slow" on their beige osx box or "can someone else try?".. how does it run on a macbook or imac or the intel mac mini? -pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadsport Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I have a 2ghz C2D MacBook and its horrifically slow. Apps take FOREVER to launch and perform just as slowly. An earlier beta ran DarkAges (2D mmo) almost full speed. Ever version since then has seriously run at about 2fps. Guild Wars just crashes, and yet HL (HL2?) runs fine, so its still got a lot of problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyin916 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I have a 2ghz C2D MacBook and its horrifically slow. Apps take FOREVER to launch and perform just as slowly. An earlier beta ran DarkAges (2D mmo) almost full speed. Ever version since then has seriously run at about 2fps. Guild Wars just crashes, and yet HL (HL2?) runs fine, so its still got a lot of problems. i went by what you had in your sig. my bad. does your macbook also run slow in parallels in the same scenarios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Mine is a MBP 2.33 C2D with 3 Gb ram. Parallels runs windows at native speeds, easily as fast as my wife's new Toshiba. Crossover is slow starting up, but once its running, most of the windows apps run okay. Half-Life is playable. I quit using it with office, because the office apps were faster on parallels and with coherence mode it's pretty much integrated with osx. Also, Crossover couldn't run some of the key utilities I needed. It's a great start, and bought it so I could play HL and other 3d games without having to reboot into windows, and its great for that. But so far at least, with the exception of the 3d apps, the experience with parallels is way better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyin916 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Mine is a MBP 2.33 C2D with 3 Gb ram. Parallels runs windows at native speeds, easily as fast as my wife's new Toshiba. Crossover is slow starting up, but once its running, most of the windows apps run okay. Half-Life is playable. I quit using it with office, because the office apps were faster on parallels and with coherence mode it's pretty much integrated with osx. Also, Crossover couldn't run some of the key utilities I needed. It's a great start, and bought it so I could play HL and other 3d games without having to reboot into windows, and its great for that. But so far at least, with the exception of the 3d apps, the experience with parallels is way better. now that's the first conclusive answer i have heard in this thread so far. thanks milesce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadsport Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 i went by what you had in your sig. my bad. does your macbook also run slow in parallels in the same scenarios? Runs Parallels great, including DA. Guild Wars doesn't work as it's 3D but that's to be expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenctuary Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I think the reason Half-Life worked and Guild Wars didn't is because Guild Wars requires the DirectX drivers. I'm not entirely sure if Parallels currently can install those. I'll give it a shot when my new iMac arrives next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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