[Ham-Mac] "You cannot open this application ... because it is not suppotrted on this system"

Larry Weil kc1ih at mac.com
Sun Jun 18 11:22:55 EDT 2006


At 5:59 PM -0400 6/16/06, Lincoln Holistic Psychiatry wrote:

>Worse yet, IcomControl is a Windows app.  The only option for 
>running a Windows application on an Intel Mac is to boot up Windows 
>XP via Boot Camp.

Not true, there's Parallels Desktop.  From what I hear, it's similar 
to VPC, but works much better, as long as you have a lot of RAM in 
your machine.

>  Mr. Softie has declined, so far, to make a version of Virtual PC 
>for the Intel Mac.  To make matters worse, IcomControl is a a 
>relatively old program (vintage Win 2000) and may or may not run 
>under XP.

You can run Win98 under Parallels if you need to. You can also run Linux.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH


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