O.U. too P.C.

[Sportsman]

My daughter has just enrolled on an Open University course and received her first batch of course work today. Unfortunately the CD supplied will only load / run on Windows and my daughter (like any right minded individual) has an Apple Mackintosh. The OU say they do not and will not supply anything for computers other than PC with Windows and will offer no help or assistance for mac users.

My daughter has paid for a course (several hundred pounds) and has been provided with material she can not use without paying for expensive emulation software

In the days of inclusiveness it obviously doesnt extend to mac users or anyone who doesn't use windows

Anyone had similar problems and if so what did you do.

Maybe this should be on the technical help forum but I wanted to have a rant anyway

[DavyR]

I'm no expert, but this site looks as though it might help:

 

http://www.thefreecountry.com/emulators/pc.shtml

[jimpy0]

My daughter has just enrolled on an Open University course and received her first batch of course work today. Unfortunately the CD supplied will only load / run on Windows and my daughter (like any right minded individual) has an Apple Mackintosh. The OU say they do not and will not supply anything for computers other than PC with Windows and will offer no help or assistance for mac users.

My daughter has paid for a course (several hundred pounds) and has been provided with material she can not use without paying for expensive emulation software

In the days of inclusiveness it obviously doesnt extend to mac users or anyone who doesn't use windows

Anyone had similar problems and if so what did you do.

Maybe this should be on the technical help forum but I wanted to have a rant anyway

 

 

i believe you can get mac emulation software to run mac progs on a pc will have a scout round see what i can find

 

http://www.emulators.com/

 

put mac emulators into google this is the first that came up hundreds more avail

Edited April 5, 2006 by jimpy0

[argyll]

i believe you can get mac emulation software to run mac progs on a pc will have a scout round see what i can find

 

 

eerr... I think Sportsman needs a Windows emulation programme to run on a Mac. I assumed most scots would be running Macs anyway Dave

 

i suspect that you'll have to buy a copy of Windows whatever the solution.

Edited April 5, 2006 by argyll

[DavyR]

Errr...Think it's a PC emulator that's required here, Jimpy.

[jimpy0]

sorry yes my heads up my ???? at the mo

 

and i believe you can get mac to pc emulation

 

http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/virtualpc/

Edited April 5, 2006 by jimpy0

[Paul_D]

I'm no expert either but just happened to be reading this which may be of use.....

[Ken L]

I have the same problem. The number of companies and service providers that refuse point blank to rewrite all of there products for my BBC micro and supply them on 7" floppies is a damed disgrace !!!!

 

Surely, you knew that loosing all of the compatability that PC users take for granted was the trade off you were taking when you brought an Apple in the same way that you must have known that upgrading of an existing machine instead of wholesale replacement every three years wasn't for you..

Come to think of it, exactly why would any right minded person buy a Macc ?

[Ken L]

No sooner do I post this than I turn to the BBC site and find this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4880022.stm

[Steve Walker]

Couple of things;

 

Sportsman, what exactly is on the CD? Can you browse it and see the content?

 

Ken, I'm a PC/Windows person myself, but my father-in-law is a Mac-head. I'm not going over to the Dark Side, but they are very impressive machines, and very slick to look at; I'd gladly have an iMac in my living room. For someone not techically savvy enough to go the Linux route but who wants to give Bill Gates one in the eye by giving their money to some other megalomaniac zillionaire, they make sense.