Helping newcomers anticipate that standalones can't save to themselves

[Bob Sneidar]

Thanks Richard. I tried that some time ago but it didn’t work with all apps. I suppose you are saying it will work with Livecode? I will give that a try!

Bob S


On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:31 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
> > All that being said, it *would* be nice to have an emulator that I
> > can switch to so I can see how it will run on my Mac without having
> > to switch to my Virtual Machine and run it in Livecode there. But
> > that is because I am lazy. It’s not that much more trouble to bite
> > the bullet and buy the VM software.
> 
> Venturing just a tad OT here, but I feel obliged to share the good news Mark Wieder shared with me a few years ago:  VirtualBox
> 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/
> 
> Free as in both beer and freedom, in my experience it also outperforms Parallels rather dramatically in the time it takes to restore a session, and has pretty much all the modern features we've come to expect from such tools:
> 
> - Your choice of single-window or interleaved modes
> 
> - Wide range of hardware access and emulation options
> 
> - Support for snapshots
> 
> - Clipboard and shared folder integration
> 
> - Very easy to use
> 
> Thank you Mr. Wieder for turning me on that gem!
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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