Wine and other "solutions" are not satisfactory. A VM is the only reliable method of running Windows program on Linux or Mac. On 7/05/2015 8:41 am, J. P. Gilliver (John) via wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Graham Coward via > <[email protected]> writes: >> I have tinkered with Linux but not used it seriously. You can run a >> Windows Virtual Machine in Virtual Box software but you still need >> Windoze. There are other ways to run a Windoze program (e.g. Wine) that >> don't need Windoze but they are not satisfactory. The same applies to > > I believe BK will run under wine, though. > >> Apple Mac which I now use. > [] > [What, the Apple Mac is not satisfactory? (-:] >

In message <[email protected]>, Graham Coward via <[email protected]> writes: >Wine and other "solutions" are not satisfactory. A VM is the only >reliable method of running Windows program on Linux or Mac. [] Is that just your general view, or have you actually tried running BK, specifically, under Wine, and had problems (like Jim Dell does with register reports)? When you say "Windows program", it sounds as if you mean Windows programs in general, so it isn't clear if you're just going by what others say (and which may be true for Windows prog.s that use and expect complex aspects of the OS), or whether you've actually tried BK (which still says it'll work in Windows 95!). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -Robert Maynard Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)

I have tried BK6 and other programs under Wine. Wine works best with simple programs with a single executable. (Parish Locator, AKA Parloc is one.) (Google for it!) More complex programs (most) either do not work at all or crash on certain functions. Another thing to watch is that Parallels for Mac (a VM software package)isn't happy with Win 95 & 98. (Yes! I have tried that too.) I don't know about Virtual Box and VM Ware. XP is probably OK though. On 7/05/2015 9:59 am, J. P. Gilliver (John) via wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Graham Coward via > <[email protected]> writes: >> Wine and other "solutions" are not satisfactory. A VM is the only >> reliable method of running Windows program on Linux or Mac. > [] > Is that just your general view, or have you actually tried running BK, > specifically, under Wine, and had problems (like Jim Dell does with > register reports)? When you say "Windows program", it sounds as if you > mean Windows programs in general, so it isn't clear if you're just going > by what others say (and which may be true for Windows prog.s that use > and expect complex aspects of the OS), or whether you've actually tried > BK (which still says it'll work in Windows 95!). >