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lightspeed2011 · 08-01-2012, 02:56 AM

I have an intel iMac (10.6) and use VirtualBox from Oracle when I need to visit the "Dark Side" - best part, it's free.

May not cover all the compatibility bells and whistles of Parallels or others; but it runs "basic" Win/DOS stuff fine, which is all I need.

I use a program called Bullzip to print as a PDF and can then get it to the Mac side.

There are some issues with things like copy/paste between the two. I have 2 ways of dealing with those.
1 - create a disk image (MSDOS or NTFS) and mount it on the Mac, NTFS-3g is another free Mac control panel to allow native access to WinNT, unix, etc formats.
2 - I have an external drive with Mac and Windows partitions on it.

I add can add either/both drives as shared folders to VirtualBox and then use the Map Network Drive to mount them. Stuff on these drives is available to be shared by both systems simultaneously.

Bob

08-01-2012, 02:56 AM	#7
lightspeed2011 AlwNW2X Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 25	RDSS/Sartin progs on a Mac I have an intel iMac (10.6) and use VirtualBox from Oracle when I need to visit the "Dark Side" - best part, it's free. May not cover all the compatibility bells and whistles of Parallels or others; but it runs "basic" Win/DOS stuff fine, which is all I need. I use a program called Bullzip to print as a PDF and can then get it to the Mac side. There are some issues with things like copy/paste between the two. I have 2 ways of dealing with those. 1 - create a disk image (MSDOS or NTFS) and mount it on the Mac, NTFS-3g is another free Mac control panel to allow native access to WinNT, unix, etc formats. 2 - I have an external drive with Mac and Windows partitions on it. I add can add either/both drives as shared folders to VirtualBox and then use the Map Network Drive to mount them. Stuff on these drives is available to be shared by both systems simultaneously. Bob