Jeff Campbell
01-14-2010, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/06/how-to-run-windows-apps-for-free-with-wine-on-os-x/' target='_blank'>http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/06/how-...h-wine-on-os-x/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"There are many options for running Windows programs on the Mac. Boot Camp, for instance, is included with OS X for installing Windows on a separate partition. Parallels, VMware, and Sun offer virtualization software that let you run your Windows programs without logging out of OS X. And then there's Wine."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1263262360.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p>This Open Source application layer runs "within" rather than "stand-alone" outside of OS X. What that means is that you don't have to actually own a copy of Windows to run Windows programs since <a href="http://www.winehq.org/" target="_blank">Wine</a> implements the Windows API. There is a tutorial located <a href="http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/" target="_blank">here</a> that David Baumgold put together, covering every aspect of using Wine on your system. Be forewarned though, you need to have some knowledge of using Terminal.app as the install is pretty technical and should not be attempted unless you are sure of your skills. There is also a list <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/" target="_blank">here</a> of compatible programs that work with Wine, and if you aren't sure you want to mess with Terminal, head on over to <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/" target="_blank">Crossover</a> and get their application that makes it easy to install Wine. </p>