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[cpd2009]

Parallels Desktop all set up..again! Running much better than before since I used WinXP this time around.

This is Coherence...where Windows windows are blended in with the Mac OSX Environment. It works rather well, though I learned later that VirtualBox has the same feature. Although with Parallels, the Taskbar is completely hidden and the system tray icons go up to the place where the other Mac OSX icons go, the top right.

However, I occasionally have to switch it out of Coherence if I want to run a game that asks for fullscreen. If not, then the Coherence feature gets glitchy, and eventually drops back to a standard VM window. Some of my older games have to be run in a lower resolution anyway since those will refuse to launch and say they "can't find the video mode".

In the screenshot above, I have an old shareware Windows game called "MacBlaster", a Windows Explorer Window, Vox (yeah, I started using it again), and Preview.

As for MacBlaster....yeah. I installed it off an old shareware games disc I have, mainly because of the fact you can now run an Windows-based anti-Mac app on a Mac. Im not against Macs (or else Lilly would have been a Win7 box), but I just ran it for laughs.

I wonder if the developer, whose name is in the screenshot, would ever think of the day you could run Windows apps on a Mac.