Cherylk Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 I have just purchased PTE for use on my Mac computer. Is it necessary to have Windows installed on my computer to be able to install your program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom95521 Posted October 27, 2015 Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Hi,The short answer is yes, you will need a copy of Windows to use the PTE editor and create slideshows. You can create Mac slideshows on PTE.The current 8.0n version of PTE can run Windows on a newer model Macs using a Windows partition and Bootcamp software from Apple. If you want to run OS X and Windows at the same time then you will need a hosted hypervisor that creates a virtual PC for Windows on top of OS X. The two most popular are VMWare Fusion and Parallels. There is also VirtualBox 5 (free) that requires a copy of Windows and Wine (free) a Windows API emulator that does not require a copy of Windows. I have not tried the free software. I doubt the performance is comparable to Fusion or Parallels.PTE 9 editor that *may* be available for beta testing in late 2015 *may* run natively on either Windows or Macs.Tomupdate Nov. 10, 2015. There is also Codeweavers which is apparently an API emulator. They are working on Direct X 11, so it should work with Direct X 9 applications like PicturesToExe.https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search?name=picturestoexe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherylk Posted October 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 Hi,The short answer is yes, you will need a copy of Windows to use the PTE editor and create slideshows. You can create Mac slideshows on PTE.The current 8.0n version of PTE can run Windows on a newer model Macs using a Windows partition and Bootcamp software from Apple. If you want to run OS X and Windows at the same time then you will need a hosted hypervisor that creates a virtual PC for Windows on top of OS X. The two most popular are VMWare Fusion and Parallels. There is also VirtualBox 5 (free) that requires a copy of Windows and Wine (free) a Windows API emulator that does not require a copy of Windows. I have not tried the free software. I doubt the performance is comparable to Fusion or Parallels.PTE 9 editor that *may* be available for beta testing in late 2015 *may* run natively on either Windows or Macs.TomThanks very much for your help Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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