SUF 7.0 and Virtual PC (VPC) for Mac

[sbalsen]

If anyone is interested, this does work! Thanks to another user forum, I was instructed to try runnning SUF 7.0 in VPC in "Compatibility Mode." I tried that and SUF worked perfectly! And quite fast. It actually starts up faster than it does on my Pentium IV Dell. Loading the files and settings takes only a little longer. The build does take almost twice as long, 32 seconds on the Dell and 52 seconds on the VPC (my Mac is a dual 1 GHz processor G4; I assume on a new G5 it would be much faster). It's a rather complicated Setup, dozens of files and about 80 MB in size. Still, I don't need to run the Setup very often. The slight difference in speed is well off set by the convenience of doing all my development on the my Mac. BTW, I do test my setups on real PCs!

I have demoed other setup utilities and Indigo Rose's Setup Factory is far superior. Thank you Indigo Rose!

Sy Balsen
digitaltorah Software
www.digitaltorah.com

[Corey]

Hi. Very glad to hear you are enjoying the software. :yes :)

[sbalsen]

BTW, my VPC gurus tell me that the reason SUF was having problems originally in VPC was probably because "they're making use of self modifying code in Setup Factory (usually an anti-piracy measure)." Anyway, it works fine with VPC in "Compatibility Mode" and I'm very happy!
Thanks again Indigo Rose!
Sy