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Four subsequent attempts resulted in various lockups until again the computer felt sluggish. Another lockup happened when attempting to select an output folder. I attempted to tell the application where to rip the DVD files. It must be similiar to the bug I had with this program under Crossover Office, where leaving it idle too long would result in it being unresponsive. After the program read the DVD I was able to click on options. I then repeated the process except this time I stayed at the computer the whole time. However the program refused to respond to me. When I returned I was sitting at DVDShrink's main menu with the DVD's contents listed. Sure enough browsing to the folder worked and DVDShrink started to read my DVD. I decided to try to open the DVD by way of the open folder method. No drives were available! It looked like this wasn't going to go so well. #CROSSOVER FOR MAC REVIEWS MOVIE#I went to open a disc after popping the movie "Thumbsucker" into my DVD drive. #CROSSOVER FOR MAC REVIEWS INSTALL#The install process went fine and the application launced. The first unsupported application on the chopping block was DVDShrink 3.2 and I decided to install it into both types of bottles. By default if you open a setup program from Finder by double clicking it will open Crossover and install into your default bottle. It was time to start testing unsupported software. The test with Crossover was not complete though. #CROSSOVER FOR MAC REVIEWS MAC#It always make me a Sad Mac when I have to reboot.īack to my desktop. The OS still felt sluggish so I decided to reboot. To my suprise I found not one or two, but 6 wineserver processes running! In a bit of foreshadowing to come, I force quit each one of them. My entire system was sluggish at this point, so I decided to fire up Activity Monitor to see what was going on. I checked my bank account with it though. Overall it seemed to work quite well, even though I would not try to run any video or graphics intensive webpages through it. No such luck, however I was unable to get flash working. With Internet Explorer 6 now opened and running on my screen I decided to poke around and see if I could crash it. Typically this disappears before the program is actually on your screen. Instead there is a miniature icon that bounces for a little while on top of the Crossover icon in the dock. Applications launched with Crossover Mac do not have regular bouncing icons in your dock like other OS X programs. Again it seemed to take it's time launching and at first I was not sure it was launching at all. Afterwards I launched IE6 from the Crossover "Programs" menu. This went pretty smooth, although it did take an extraordinary amount of time to actually complete the installation. Codeweavers recommends that these applications be give there own bottle from which to work from when you are using the built in install selector.įor the first test I installed Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 from the Crossover install selector. There is also the option to install unsupported programs. Most of these actually run suprisingly well. By default there is a list of programs that can be installed that are currently supported by the application. These bottles can either be a Win98 or Win2000 setup. Software is installed within what they call bottles. You can open programs from Crossover's own menu or by directly double clicking on the executable. #CROSSOVER FOR MAC REVIEWS SOFTWARE#I will give this software credit for being a tightly integrated solution. From an end user standpoint this software is not even close yet to the level of stability I have been used to with Codeweaver's Crossover Office for Linux. Some things work, and work pretty well I might add, but those things that do not work are really bad. I've been testing Crossover Mac by Codeweavers with varying success as of late. I'm posting here as well in the Reader News section for those who might now read the blogs. I've written up a review on my blog here about my tests so far with Crossover Mac. ![]()
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