[Equest-users] eQuest on Mac

Keith Leadbetter kolenergy at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 17:25:57 PST 2012


Alex,

I agree with Andre. I have a similar setup: MacBook Pro, 2.53 GHz, 8GB RAM, etc. I have tried both VMWare Fusion and Parallels.  VMWare Fusion works best for me.

Keith

On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:58 PM, A Duurvoort <aduurvoort at gmail.com> wrote:

> My current setup: MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel, 8GB RAM. VMWare Fusion, Windows 7 x86. Runs AutoCad 2010, eQuest, coil/fan selection, and Google sketchup (trying to learn the EnergyPlus plugin! NOT EASY, is there a forum for that??)
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> Cheapest way I have found is to use a bootcamp partition to run Windows XP 32-bit. XP Pro is my favorite windows flavor, but Windows 7 (x86) will work fine also to run eQuest.
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> If you have some cash, VMWare Fusion works great, better and faster than the other VM programs I've tried. It can even run your existing bootcamp partition without a reboot. using 32-bit OS seems to play better with eQuest. 
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> Andre
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> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Alex Blue <ablue at sustainable-solutions.ca> wrote:
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> I’m trying to get eQuest to run on my MacBook Pro.  I know I could shell out some cash for Windows and run bootcamp or a virtual desktop, but first I’d like to exhaust my free option: Wine.
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> Has anyone been able to get eQuest running through Wine?  I can get it to take me through the wizards, then I get the BDL loading screen, then... nothing.  No pretty graphical detailed UI.  Suggestions? 
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> Note: I’m actually using WineSkin, but did do the basic Wine install and am willing and able to go through there if it works.
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> I appreciate any help you can give me.
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