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NWC on a Mac?

I know that there isn't a version of NWC for the Apple Macintosh, but a musician friend of mine wonders whether there is an emulation program available which will allow Macs to run PC software (albeit probably rather slowly) - he'd like to try NWC on his machine. Any ideas??

Re: NWC on a Mac?

Reply #1 –
There's a program called Virtual PC for Mac. (I unfortunately don't know what the website is, will have to run a search engine to find out). It might work, with minor slowdown (NWC isn't CPU intensive anyway).
Since I don't have a Mac I can't vouch for it or against it. Although I hope it works, this September my college only has Macs and I want to run Noteworthy on them!

Re: NWC on a Mac?

Reply #2 –
There is also RealPC, but I don't remember which one ("Virtual" or "Real") is better. One of the two creates a "virtual" pc alone (complete "MPC" i.e. SVGA+SB16+Pentium), so you can even "boot" it under plain dos (or linux... :-)), where the other emulates LoseDows (95 or 3.x I hope) making you unable to use dos-only programs (games for instance, or the "old" SCORE program).
You may go to http://www.insignia.com/products/realPC_mac.htm or http://www.insignia.com/products/sw95_mac.htm for these products. (I think that Virtual PC (of Connectix) is better than Softwindows, but believe that RealPC is better than Virtual).
Go and check http://home.earthlink.net/~lukes/vpc.html for comparisons and other solutions, freeware sometimes :-)

hth, MAD

Re: NWC on a Mac?

Reply #3 –
Thanks, folks. I found the Virtual PC suppilers web site at http://www.connectix.com Information will be passed on, and I'll post any further progress report if my friend gives one of the products a try. Peter.