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You can get Crossover for free today, see http://www.codeweavers.com/flockthevoteqa/

Click the "buy" button and the free offer should show up. You have to decide if you want the linux or MacOS version as you only get one free including 12 months support.

If you already own it you can get another 12 month of support/updates for free...

how is crossover different to wine?
I've never tried it, mind you I don't have wine on my system either.

idle wrote:how is crossover different to wine?
I've never tried it, mind you I don't have wine on my system either.

It's built on wine, and a lot of the Codeweavers work filters back into wine. Practically, the difference is they work a LOT harder to avoid regressions in real world use, and they target a lot of their alterations to improving the use of the applications they have as supported.

I haven't used their stuff in a couple years (not since my imac died), since I no longer have a mac or linux installation, but I was very fond of the quality of their work. It was more generally usable than wine, for most applications listed as 'working' in their database.

Thanks, that was Interesting, apparently codeweavers hosts winehq.
Seem to me that if your going to pay $60 for a years subscription, you may as well install windows on a septate drive / partition.
Though while it's free for a year, it wouldn't hurt to try.

Ramihyn_ wrote:You can get Crossover for free today...

Hi Ramihyn_. Thanks for the heads up; caught it just in the nick of time! Installed it on a MacBook running OSX Lion, and was able to install PureBasic 5.00 b8 for Windows; so far, successfully ran some of the help examples.

If anyone's interested, the offer's still valid for another forty minutes. It is now 11:22pm, CST!

UPDATE: It is now 12:01am, CST, and the offer has ended! But Crossover is still available for sale at US$59.95.

idle wrote:Seem to me that if your going to pay $60 for a years subscription, you may as well install windows on a septate drive / partition.

There are people who for whatever reason do not want Windows installed on their systems, and there are people who for whatever reason cannot (or will not) dual boot, or cannot (or will not) use virtualization software for a particular task.

For those people who are in those categories but still have a fair amount of operational expense freedom, something like Crossover can be attractive, since it is rather better supported than just wine alone.

Not saying it's for everyone, but it's doing well enough that they've stayed solvent, so I think there's a market.