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Hog 3PC on Mac via Wine

Meh 626Meh 626 Registered User
edited January 2010 in Wholehog 3 General Discussion
Hi,

I was looking to running 3PC via VMware & Win7 on my Mac but it was going to be expensive after I got VMware and a Windows license. A friend pointed me to Wine which allows you to run Windows apps in Mac OS X. To my surprise Hog 3PC was listed (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8830).

Has anybody tried Hog 3PC via Wine?

Thanks,

Comments

  • Unknown
    edited January 2010
    Even if it works, I would not recommend using it for a live performance situation. 3PC depends heavily on specific behaviors of the OS, and has to be tuned for each host OS. With wine, you have a mis-mash of OS's. Plus, we're constantly changing the behavior, so it may work with one version of 3PC and break with another.
  • Meh 626Meh 626 Registered User
    edited January 2010
    Eric, thanks for that. Back to VMware and Win7.
  • Unknown
    edited January 2010
    I should have added that we don't recommend virtual machine like Vmware, Parallels, Virtual PC, etc. to be show-safe for live environments. Many people use them successfully for pre-production or offline editing, but for live shows you're best to run on a non-virtualized OS.

    It may work, but it's just one more thing to go wrong.
  • stephenwykerstephenwyker Registered User, DL Beta, Hog Beta
    edited January 2010
    Just use bootcamp .. plus it's free and show safe.
  • Meh 626Meh 626 Registered User
    edited January 2010
    Okay, I'll use bootcamp.

    Thanks for helping,
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