If you have a Mac with an Intel processor, VMWare Fusion will be an alternative to Parallels Desktop. If your Mac is not quite new and only updated to macOS 13 "High Sierra" you can get away with an older copy of Parallels from Amazon: You can keep the Mac part of your disk separateįrom your Windows part, so nasty applications will not ruin your Mac data. You also need to keep this part of your disk free of spyware, viruses. You still need a copy of Microsoft Windowsĭisk. Parallels Desktop is focused on personal use, while VMWare cater for enterprise users even though they keep VMWare Fusion for personal use Not require to restart your Mac every time you want to run a Windows application. It is more convenient to use than Apple's Boot Camp as it does Parallels Desktop require a Mac with an Intel processor. I have successfully been able to run Windows 7 on a 20GB virtual disk Parallels Desktop You will also need 30-50GB of free disk space to set aside as to a virtual disk for your "Windows PC". It takes only a few minutes to download and install Virtual Box, but it may take more than an hour to get your copy of Windows and all the Windows software updates installed. You do need a copy of Microsoft Windows, and the Home Edition of Windows 10 is about $129 The most affordable free and supported app to run Windows and apps on your Mac is VirtualBox from Oracle. Installer applications like InstallerVise from MindVision. Some EXE files containing other files are not possible to open with File Juicer. File Juicer can extract them, and you can play Pocket PC applications are often packaged as "Windows only installers" in EXE files, and the developers forget to make anįile Juicer can extract the CAB files from the exe file,Īnd you can manually copy this file to the Pocket PC and get it installed this way.Īdobe/Macromedia's Flash files are also often wrapped inside an EXE file. You open ZIP files by double-clicking them. ZIP and RAR files are common inside EXE files which are made "self extracting" on This will work on some EXE files, but not if the EXE file is encrypted or use a proprietary storage system. An example EXE file containing photos: AutumnToadStools.EXEġ3 second movie showing how to extract images from anĮXE file (a screen saver). It contains images, Flash games or animations, compressed. It searches inside the EXE file to see if From there one needs to manually put the directories within Unreal Tournament.2004 (Get Info -> Show Package Contents).EXE files are made for users of Microsoft's Windows, but today you have several ways to use EXE files on your Mac.Įxtracts images, CAB and other files from EXEįile Juicer does not run EXE files. If, by chance, they are for example some sort of add-on for Unreal Tournament 2004, then they can probably be extracted via Stuffit Expander (OSX version seems to be able to extract most. EXE files you are interested in using on your Mac. Your mileage may vary, depending on the nature of the. I remember I had to do this in order to get Quake II Mission Packs I (Ground Zero) and II (The Reckoning), and another mission pack called Juggernaut working properly with the Mac OS version of Quake II.
ZIP file was created, the directory structure was preserved such that the files could be dropped right into your gaming directory and they would work. EXE files onto Stuffit Expander (I believe we’re talking OS 9.0.4 - 9.2.2 era versions), and generally they would expand, revealing a file/folder structure. ZIP files with some sort of executable wrapper around them.
EXE files, however, in reality they were. …although, looking back many years ago to my rabid Mac gaming years (Quake I, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Myth I, Myth II), there were some add-on files written on a Windows-crippled PC as.