anyone running WinAE etc. in Parallels on Mac?

[meddle01]

My configurations are as follows - Mac Pro running Parallels and VMWare (XP).  I quickly found out that mouse control is out of control running WinUAE on Windows under Parallels on the Mac.   I've tried to fiddle with all sorts of mouse settings in the OS's - no love.  ANyone donig this successfully?

On my MacBook Pro - I have BootCamp and when I'm running natively XP - mouse is fine in WinUAE.

Current ROM/Emulation issues:

Trying to run the Garrison ROM and it keeps bombing out - boots up with a "Sector error" message - sometimes if I wait goes past this.   Then after intro screen - if I get that far - screen goes black and dies.

Gods ROM and other games, Faery Tale etc. - I don't know how to configure it to use the keyboard.  I've tried setting keyboard options in WinUAE but nothing ever works.  Mouse usually works, but control is useless and I'd much rather use keyboard (I don't yet have a joystick).

Thanks

[-BobW-]

I just upgraded to Parallels version 3 last night.  I'll give it a try.

[weirdami]

I think someone one here a while ago complained that what you are trying to play are not "ROM"'s. Something to do with ROM's being what they had in arcade games, not on Amiga's.

[meddle01]

It sounds like "someone here a while ago" (whomever that may be) - has too much time on their hands then.

Yes, I know technically they are not ROM's - I've been in IT engineering for 15 or so years now, so I fully understand the difference.   But since I am not a "gamer" per say, I was just using the "street lingo" for these "images" in trying to be "hip" and establish "street cred" with the "in crowd" since they are often posted on the  internet as "ROMS", I just went with the seeminly accepted terminology.

Going forward and the hair splitting aside - the above are the issues I'm running into.   Any help would be appreciated.  

Thanks

[gklinger]

Let me apologize in advance for asking what might be perceived a stupid question but why not run E-UAE natively rather than bothering with running an emulator under a virtualized version of Windows?

I run E-UAE + HiToro natively and it works brilliantly.

BTW, you Mac guys might find Think Commodore and its forums of interest. It's a site oriented towards Commodore loving Mac users and you'll find lots of like-minded people helping one another.

[Piru]

Probably because WinUAE is superior compared to E-UAE.

[mikrucio]

I dont see the point of using an inferior OS instead of OS X on a MAC. you want to use windblows buy a PC.
Bootcamp? bah. windows sux. OSX 10.4.9 is a killer OS.

why bother....

[pixie]

Last time I'd checked MAC was a PC... as for the point to it, bad habits are hard to lose, probably is due to it

[Piru]

why bother...

Because WinUAE is superior.

And btw bootcamp != parallels

[uncharted]

meddle01 wrote:
It sounds like "someone here a while ago" (whomever that may be) - has too much time on their hands then.

Yes, I know technically they are not ROM's - I've been in IT engineering for 15 or so years now, so I fully understand the difference.   But since I am not a "gamer" per say, I was just using the "street lingo" for these "images" in trying to be "hip" and establish "street cred" with the "in crowd" since they are often posted on the  internet as "ROMS", I just went with the seeminly accepted terminology.

As ROMs on Amiga mean something entirely different (Kickstart) then there is a point to people pointing this out.  Don't assume that people are just being pedantic.

[uncharted]

Piru wrote:

Because WinUAE is superior.

That may be the case, but looking at the needs of this user would E-UAE be sufficient?

[shoggoth]

mikrucio wrote:
I dont see the point of using an inferior OS instead of OS X on a MAC. you want to use windblows buy a PC.
Bootcamp? bah. windows sux. OSX 10.4.9 is a killer OS.

why bother....

Compatibility. Doesn't matter how great OSX is - some times (some) people need access to applications which doesn't exist or costs money on OSX.

Also, Parallels and VMWare makes it quite smooth since one runs Windows concurrently - not instead of - with OSX.