MacBreak Tech

 

Learning programming is fun and for the most part easy to do. You need to set your expectations to meet this task because for some people it will be a hard road. But fear not, there are lots of ways to learn and examples to follow. Whether you learn in a more traditional classroom or on your own it will take a while for programming to sink in. Mostly because people aren’t used to thinking this way. Because everyone knows how to use a list it’s not a big jump to make something more complex.

 

Programming a Mac offers lots of different choices. The best part is so many things are free to use without restriction.

 

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Why?

Why not.

One Machine not 3.

On a MacBook you have all your environments.

 

What?

That one thing you need to run for legacy.

Compatibility Checking

Some fun game.

Anything really.

 

 

Reviews are already WILDY out of date

http://www.macworld.com/article/55484/2007/02/vmwarevsparallels.html

 

Why an emulator and not BootCamp?

BootCamp requires a partition.

Emulators don’t need a physical disk.

Side-by-Side

Use Spaces to hold a whole window.

 

What choices are there for emulation

vmWare

Parallels

DOSbox

Cross Over

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Wine

MAME

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33091

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176560

SCUMM

 

 

What runs?

Windows

Linux

Solaris

DOS

 

Installation

licensing

Windows XP

Vista

Windows installs faster than Windows on hardware.

 

Performance

http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark/

 

Zork 1, 2, 3 .exe

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

 

Visicalc

http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

 

Asterisk

http://asterisk.org/

 

Gizmo Project

http://gizmoproject.com/

Purchased music from iTunes

on more then one Mac (up to 5)

 

Sharing music on

one computer

the home and office computer

more then one computer in the same house hold

 

Airport Express

 

Squeeze Box

http://www.slimdevices.com/

 

Turning on Sharing in iTunes.

doesn’t sync music just allows you to play it.

 

Syncing iPods. 

http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/

itunes spelled backwards

iPod Extractor

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12739

floola

http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/

an extensive list of other tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_iPod_Managers

 

Conversation about drm’d AAC files

 

Consolidation (thoughts)

use the old Mac to store all the music.

set up VNC screen sharing

or load Leopard on it to screen share to it.