WIN MAC Software

#1 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 - 17:53 68kMLA

I was digging through my collection of computer CDs and I found a game called "Tetris Elements". I looked at the bottom left and saw that it said "WIN MAC" so I looked at the booklet and it said it works on Mac OS 9.2 and up! I installed it and it works great. Anybody know of any other good MAC WIN compatible software?

#2 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 - 17:56 68kMLA

A lot of software can install on Windows and Macintosh from the same CD.

#3 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 - 19:33 68kMLA

Claris put out a Mac/Win Hybrid CD of ClarisWorks 3.0. I have no idea what the Windows version is like though since all three of my CW3.0 CDs are installed on Macs.

#4 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 - 20:43 68kMLA

There is/was a cereal company that put win mac cd softare in there boxes.

#5 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 - 04:38 68kMLA

Some of Fox Interactive's discs, such as the Simpson Cartoon Studio, were hybrids.

#6 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 - 21:44 68kMLA

Netscape produced developer CDs in the 1990s that supported Mac, Windows and multiple flavours of Unix.

#7 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 - 23:08 68kMLA

Lots of "kid" software from the mid-to-late '90s were hybrid Win/Mac discs.

Blizzard Entertainment (makers of World of Warcraft, Starcraft, etc,) use hybrid Win/Mac discs.

#8 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 - 00:07 68kMLA

Kidpix! hehe.

My ClarisWorks 3.0 CD is Win/Mac. I've used it on Windows XP, but it just seems really old and dated, compared to far better apps.

#9 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 - 23:52 68kMLA

You can burn your own hybrid CD that is readabkle by both Windows and Mac

http://lists.apple.com/archives/QuickTime-Users/2002/Jan/msg00085.html

#10 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 - 00:41 68kMLA

Basically any CD burned in OS X is in a format readable by both Mac and Windows. And if you only put common file types on (.JPG pictures, .DOC Word documents, etc,) then you will have no compatibility issues.

The big deal is for applications, which require completely different code sets for Windows as for Mac. That is why very few pieces of software, even when available for both Windows and Mac, come with both versions on a single disc.