br0adband Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 http://www.codeweavers.com/beta/cxmac/ Just released. Thanks to interinv for the linkage crossposted from #macvidia... bb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Thanks for the info. it's finally a public beta.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-178614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Thanks for the info. it's finally a public beta.. Not public, not just yet //R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-178623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 2006-08-31Welcome to the public beta test of CrossOver Mac! We hope you enjoy this initial beta; if you don't, let us know why, and we'll see if the next one isn't more to your liking. Sounds like public to me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-178636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsod Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 yea it is public, i installed it on a hackintosh 10.4.7 and it is running mIRC and a few other programs really well, might try installing office to see if it is faster than using rosetta Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-178654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Just downloaded and installed. I've been playing with Beta 3 for a while, but could never get Half-Life to run properly. Office 2003 worked okay (except outlook) but couldn't print. Hoping the new beta will be better on all fronts. Incidentally, they're doing a pre-order deal similar to what Parallels did ($39 instead of $59). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-178656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriX Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Does it work on Leopard? Didn't on mine... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-178689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I've got my copy and it works great. I haven't gotten the WinXP bottle to work right yet, but I'm glad that they're at least working on it. btw, I think that only official alpha and beta testers can register their copy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-178720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Well, so far haven't tested much. Half Life (1, steam version) works almost as well as natively in Windows on the same machine (2 Ghz Macbook Pro, 2 Gb ram). Office runs the same -- haven't yet tried Outlook, because they don't support IMAP or POP yet. Hopefully that' fixed for the final version. I'm mainly interested in Office 2003 because running Office Mac 2004 is SO SLOW under Rosetta, and everything else about this machine flies. Word/Excel run much faster under Crossover than the mac versions. Too bad. HL 2 at least starts, haven't done any playing yet, will update. It's enough that I will for sure pre-order the product. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0adband Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 Wow, sounds like it's working out great for people. The only thing I installed was mIRC since that's my old standby IRC client of choice. Seemed to work ok, but I'm going to wipe my entire hard drive clean at some point tonight or tomorrow and do a triple boot: OSX first, followed up with 2K3 then Vista (whichever build is most current on Connect). Should be interesting. bb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 (edited) I'm downloading right now and will as soon as it finishes (couple of secs). Edit: Installed a couple of programs. Seems OK. Check this out though. Did anyone try IE6? Edit: Seems to be fine! And just like mentioned above, I could not setup Outlook. They say it's supported, but if it is not configurable, it doesn't really count to me.... Edited September 1, 2006 by locuras Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TsubakiSama Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Anyone tried this one with some games? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaSoulHacker Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I can't get Half Life 2 to install despite me reading somewhere that some people have got it to work. There is this landscaping program that also freezes up as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Sounds like public to me. Its not relevent now, but the beta 1 was seeded to registered alpha testers a few days before the public. Thats what I meant. //R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjlucas76 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Review of Crossover for Mac on Hackintosh box. http://www.mypcisamac.com/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Tested apps.: Photshop 7.0 Nero 7 Office 2003 (except for Outlook where you cannot configure pop3 or any kind of access for that matter). Ricochet (I love the little game, but it gives you a screen resolution error) Power DVD Win DVD Please, post what apps. are working for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Tested apps.:Photshop 7.0 Nero 7 Office 2003 (except for Outlook where you cannot configure pop3 or any kind of access for that matter). Ricochet (I love the little game, but it gives you a screen resolution error) Power DVD Win DVD Please, post what apps. are working for you. Working.... Photoshop 7 Lotus Notes 6.51 (all 3 clients) Family Tree Maker 2005 Dreamweaver MX IE6 Word 2000 Excel 2000 Powerpoint 2000 Access 2000 TiVo Desktop for Windows uTorrent I'd not expect any burning program to work. They expect to be able to bash the metal themselves, and thats not allowed in macos x Have you tried setting up a separate bottle for Ricochet? Do that, and monkey with the command winecfg(Run Command and then type winecfg in the box...) to create a screen with a resolution that it expects to see. //R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Do you mean CMD command? How? or Terminal? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 I perffer alpha 3, it seemed to run some more apps, I run (or try and run) GU 3rd party games Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twood33 Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 thanks for the link. i think i might try this. does it work with leopard? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacApprentice Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Anyone know how to change CD during an install? Cause the virtual machine doesn't detect any change of CD in the drive (how could they NOT think about that? it's vital for many games...) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Anyone know how to change CD during an install? Cause the virtual machine doesn't detect any change of CD in the drive (how could they NOT think about that? it's vital for many games...) Its not really a gaming platform. That there are a few games that run, well, that is an added bonus. Look at what Linux's Crossover is - a translation layer, not a virtual machine - you'll see that its for running Windows applications - it translates calls a program makes to the windows API into the appropriate call on the system it runs on. As Linux and Macos x both have Xwindows ...it translates windows api calls into Xwindows api calls. Voila , windows apps on Xwindows. Games have different needs to the average Office 2003...and do strange things with hte api, which means they won't run. Again, referring to the linux build of wine (the underlying translation technology), a company called Cedega (I think) perform a similar service on the linux platform specifically for gaming, and do it very well indeed. If its games you want, they may be the people to check out... Please, every little bug you find, feed it back to the codeweaver's team. If they don't know, how can they find out? @locuras - sorry, that wasn't very clear - I meant on the crossover menu, select Run Command from the 'Programs' dropdown and then select the bottle you have just created, and type the command winecfg .after a bit you should see a multi tabbed dialog box appear. Set the window resolution from there... //R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-179912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoopy11hk Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 did anyone try installing Office 2007, does it work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-180057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Is it just me or did alpha 3 work better o.O Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26363-crossover-mac-beta/#findComment-180096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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