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DeSmuME Emulates The Nintendo DS On The PC And Mac
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac: DeSmuME is a featured-packed Nintendo DS emulator capable of playing ROMs and homebrew software, one that also offers extra features unavailable on a traditional DS. More »
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Play Your Favourite Old-School Games In Emulation
1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Reward yourself for surviving another holiday with some old-school game playing. Skyler over at SimpleHelp has put together a guide on emulating every Nintendo game system on a Windows-based machine. Whether you are craving some truly old-school NES play or newer N64-goodness, the guide has you covered. If you’re a glutton for punishment you can even grab an emulator for the Nintendo Virtual Boy and relive the weirdness of that system all over again. For other ways to enjoy old NES games check out FireNES to play over 2000 games in Firefox. Photo by Hamish Duncan. How to Emulate Every Nintendo System in Windows [SimpleHelp] More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | Curious to see how Windows 7 runs on a Mac using Parallels? The configuration choice isn’t necessarily obvious, but PC Authority editor Zara Baxter advises setting the Parallels installation as ‘Windows 2008 experimental’ in order to play with the beta (which isn’t officially available to the public but is spreading over torrent sites nonetheless). Given that it’s an experimental build and that Parallels has recently upgraded, of course, your mileage may vary.
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Running Windows 7 In Parallels
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Curious to see how Windows 7 runs on a Mac using Parallels? The configuration choice isn’t necessarily obvious, but PC Authority editor Zara Baxter advises setting the Parallels installation as ‘Windows 2008 experimental’ in order to play with the beta (which isn’t officially available to the public but is spreading over torrent sites nonetheless). Given that it’s an experimental build and that Parallels has recently upgraded, of course, your mileage may vary.
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ISODisk Mounts Up To Twenty Disk Images
6:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: You don’t have a single .iso file to open, you have a pile you need to go through. ISODisk will help you cut through the pile and find the files you’re looking for. ISODisk is a free application which allows you to mount a disk image and browse it like a regular drive. ISODisk won’t mount other disk image formats like .nrg, .mdf, or .dmg files but shines at mounting up to twenty .iso images with unique drive letters. ISODisk will also create disk images from non-encrypted disks. ISODisk is freeware, Windows only. ISODisk [via gHacks] More »
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How To Use Your Free CrossOver Product
12:40AM Kevin Purdy | If you were one of the legions of Linux users that dashed to get a free CrossOver product license last week, guest writer Syed Abbas explains for newcomers how to install Windows apps with CrossOver Professional at the How-To Geek blog, which should also apply to CrossOver Mac users. What Windows apps are you running successfully with CrossOver, on OS X or Linux? More »
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CrossOver Mac And Linux Products Free Today Only
11:06PM Kevin Purdy | CrossOver, a commercially-modified version of the free WINE platform that lets Linux and Mac users run Windows apps semi-natively, is giving away free licenses for all their products today. That’s pretty great news for anyone who’s tried to run Microsoft Office, higher-end games, or any other Windows app through WINE and found out through later Google-ing that a CrossOver product like Office or Games was required. The licence is good for one free app, normally $US40 or so, and while CrossOver products can’t run every Windows product, they might help those trying to make the Linux (or Mac) switch. The deal is good for today (US time) only, and CodeWeavers’ site appears slammed right now, so keep checking back—unless you think another one of the CodeWeavers CEO’s Lame Duck goals will be hit, like it did with gas prices in Minneapolis-St. Paul recently. Update: CodeWeavers has a temporary download page posted while their servers are down. CrossOver Free Licenses [CodeWeavers via Download Squad] More »
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Boxer Emulates DOS On Your Mac
6:57AM Gina Trapani | Mac OS X only: When you’re feeling nostalgic for your old school DOS games—or even that copy of WordPerfect from back in the day—but you’ve got a Mac, DOS emulator Boxer comes to the rescue. Based on previously-mentioned DOSBox, you can run DOS-based games (here are three of them, all packaged up especially for use with Boxer), or even productivity applications for DOS, like Microsoft Word version 5.5, which Microsoft has posted as a free download (via). Here’s a screenshot of that time machine goodness. More »
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MobaLiveCD Runs Linux Live CDs Inside Windows
10:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: MobaLiveCD, a free, stand-alone emulation tool, lets you run Linux live CDs from a window inside Windows, without any hard drive installation whatsoever. Based on the open-source QEMU emulator, MobaLiveCD can set up a live CD with a bit of hard drive space for persistent changes on your system, or you can run the 1.6MB app off a thumb drive or desktop and simply point it at an ISO image (or install its right-click function for all ISOs). My test with Ubuntu 8.04.1 wasn’t exactly speedy, and I had to run the app as an Administrator to get it working in Vista, but it otherwise delivers on the promise of no-install Linux inside Windows. MobaLiveCD is a free download for Windows systems only. MobaLiveCD More »
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Run Windows Apps in Linux with Wine 1.0
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | No matter how easy Linux distributions make it for newcomers to install and use a free, open-source operating system, nearly everyone has at least one program that only works in Windows. Wine, a free Windows compatibility tool for Linux (and other Intel-based systems), aims to make those programs run without too much cross-system trickery. If you can’t get around needing to open true Microsoft Office files, Adobe Photoshop, or your addictive game of choice on your Linux desktop, Wine is for you. With Wine’s stable 1.0 version just released, it’s a good time to check out this quietly awesome app. Let’s get a few Windows applications running in Linux. More »
