Install Mylar Windows. We need to install Python 2.7.x and CherryPy for Mylar to work. Installing git makes the whole process more convenient so you will get to practice playing in the command prompt.
Another newbie Don't know if this is a proper thread for me to join, but here goes: I just bought a Mac mini with 2 gigs memory and 120 GB HDD. Am very confused by many OS 10.4.7 functions or lack of, but my biggest problem is not being able to install my old 98SE in a VM. The only reason I got the Mac was to be able to use 98SE, which is all that properly supports my obsolete Micrografx Picture Publisher 8 editing software. I get the 'no boot device available, press Enter to continue' and can go no further. At the store where I bought the Parallels CD the tech guys connected an external floppy drive with the proper startup disk - still 'no boot etc.' So we tried to install ME - same thing, then tried XP - still the same, and ME and XP don't require a floppy.
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I've tried to get help from Parallels online, but just got a couple of one-sentence replies saying I need a floppy to install 98 - now they don't even answer, and I can't afford to spend $30 on a phone call to speak to a techie. I am deeply disgusted with my whole Parallels and Mac experience so far (the Mac tech support just tells me Parallels is a third-party vendor, and the two techies I've spoken to don't even know what Parallels is!
(While the Apple website promotes the product!!!) If I can't get this solved soon, I am going to chuck the whole idea of VM's and buy Photoshop Elements with the refund, but I love my old editing program's easy interface, and dislike Adobe's very much. But that seems my only option if I can't use 98SE in a VM. Heartfelt thanks to whoever takes the time to advise me.
Don, Not sure if you saw the post above but once a VM starts up you have to click your mouse in it to make it active. Then you can press enter. Until you have XP installed and Parallels tools you will not be able to get back out to Mac OS without doing CTRL+ALT which will deselect the mouse and keyboard and take you back to Mac OS. Once XP is installed, run and install the Parallels tools (VM - Install Parallels tools menu) and after that is done your mouse will be seamless and can move between Mac OS and windows automatically. SE requires a floppy to boot.
The floppy needs to be an image, including boot code, on your OSX disk, connected to your VM, and your VM boot order must be set to floppy first. I've never installed 98, having gone from 3.11 directly to NT, then Win2k, but others have installed 98, and even 95 on Parallels. I would suggest, however, that if Win2k or XP will support your application, that you use one of those because the tools support is much better, and the OS is MUCH more stable. The Win2k CD has boot files for making boot floppies, and if the 98SE disk has them as well, you can just copy them with the Finder, attach them one at a time (if there's more than one) and install that way. If that doesn't work, google freedos, download the image, and boot from that. It has CD support so you can find the install program on the 98SE CD and run it. I'd be more specific, but I've never seen a 98SE disk.
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