eQuest on Mac

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Dear Mac nerds and/or developers:

I'm trying to get eQuest to run on my MacBook Pro. I know I could shell out some cash for Windows and run bootcamp or a virtual desktop, but first I'd like to exhaust my free option: Wine.

Has anyone been able to get eQuest running through Wine? I can get it to take me through the wizards, then I get the BDL loading screen, then... nothing. No pretty graphical detailed UI. Suggestions?

Note: I'm actually using WineSkin, but did do the basic Wine install and am willing and able to go through there if it works.

I appreciate any help you can give me.

Alex

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i tried this before (a couple of years ago at best) and did not have
much success. i was able to get equest to run, get into the wizards,
and i think even simulate a project, but i found it rather unstable in
both wizard mode or detailed modes. i.e. equest crashed frequently.

i ended up buying vmware & windows 2000. this has proven stable as all
i run in windows 2000 is equest and a couple of manufacturer's selection
software that i need about once a year or two and win2k doesn't have the
overhead of vista or 7. the only drawback would be having manufacturer
software that i would somehow need that needs a more current version of
windows.

if newer wine/emulators exist & allow equest to run stable on osx 10.6
or 10.7 that would be good to know. i'm pretty sure i was using 10.5
last time i gave the attempt some time.

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My current setup: MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel, 8GB RAM. VMWare Fusion,
Windows 7 x86. Runs AutoCad 2010, eQuest, coil/fan selection, and Google
sketchup (trying to learn the EnergyPlus plugin! NOT EASY, is there a forum
for that??)

Cheapest way I have found is to use a bootcamp partition to run Windows XP
32-bit. XP Pro is my favorite windows flavor, but Windows 7 (x86) will work
fine also to run eQuest.

If you have some cash, VMWare Fusion works great, better and faster than
the other VM programs I've tried. It can even run your existing bootcamp
partition without a reboot. using 32-bit OS seems to play better with
eQuest.

Andre

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Alex,

I agree with Andre. I have a similar setup: MacBook Pro, 2.53 GHz, 8GB RAM, etc. I have tried both VMWare Fusion and Parallels. VMWare Fusion works best for me.

Keith

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vmware isn't that much, $50
(http://www.vmware.com//vmwarestore/fusion-for-mac) and you can access
shared directories on your mac from within it. and you don't have to
reboot to use all your mac apps which is handy when your email, office
suite, web browsers, and everything else except equest is mac.

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for the record, i have run various versions of vmware since late 2008 on
a mac mini (2007 core duo w/2gigs of ram), a macbook (2008 white core 2
duo 4 gigs ram), and my imac (2008 core 2 duo w/4 gigs of ram). no
problems with vmware, windows, or equest on any of the machines. winxp
pro on the imac, win2k on the macbook and on the mini. i tried
parallels back in 2008 but found vmware more to my liking. i've tried
wine, and crossover office (as a beta tester) for equest & not had any
stable success in either case. from my experience, despite not wanting
to deal with windows on my mac, vmware just works. just backup the
virtual machine once it is set up so if it gets corrupted you can
restore the backup. and save all of your work to a server that is
backed up so when windows eventually goes you don't lose all of your
equest work.

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