CrossOver for the Mac
A couple of months ago I made from a Windows PC to a Apple Laptop and I have to say this is something i should have done a long time ago. But this review is not about how great my Macbook Pro is 
I have some programs that unfortunatly don’t function on a mac. Till now i Used the bootcamp option that makes it possible to install windows on a seperate partition of my Mac. The downside of bootcamp is that you need to reboot to use the other operating system.
Crossover just runs on the mac site and lets you use windows applications and not like with Parralels or VMware you don’t even have to install windows.
The website from CrossOver states that not everything will work on it but there is a free trial version so you can test you applications on CrossOver for 30 days.
So I got myself the Trail version and the installation was easy just follow the instructions on your screen and you will be up and running in almost no time at all.
I am really old fashion in some bits and that means that i still love to use Homesite 1.2 the really old version and i have to say it worked fine on CrossOver. But there where some glitches homesite offers a file bar on the right where you can select the files you are using. This bar did strange things that often made Homesite crash. The funny thing was if i used the file manager from the Homesite menu everything worked fine. Also Crossover lets you use some of the mac shortcuts in the windows programs but things like copy and past the mac way often let homesite crash.
The next program i tried was CDBF a dbf editor that i use for my database that i use for one of my other websites. The program CDBF worked without a glitch’s and it was almost like working on a pc.
The last program i tested was a program i wrote myself in xbase++ and although i also installed xbase++ the application didn’t respond to any of the commands. It started and looked fine but i could not get it to respond to anything.
after these program’s i gave up on CrossOver mainly because these are the only windows programs i use daily and so it didn’t make to much sense to get CrossOver. But if they all 3 would have worked flawless i would definitely have got the product. I liked CrossOver a lot it made my windows programs work quick much faster then i expected.
If you are like me and still have a couple of strange windows programs hanging around then i would say go get the trail version of CrossOver for the Mac and see if it can help you getting more productive.
Written by George on January 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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