PC Emulator For Macs

[ncboston]

Hello - Looking for recommendations on Emulators that I can use on My Mac.

I have a iMac running OSX El Capitan.

I have alot of work spreadsheets (from my PC) with vba macros that I would like to run on my home mac. Recently got excel 2016 for mac but was sadly disappointed when there was little to no VBA capabilities on it.

An recommendations for an emulator that would allow me to run macro enabled excel files would be grately appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Shirasaki]

Wine is a popular and currently decent choice to run PC program without installing virtual machine. But compatibility might be an issue. You can try it out.

 

[ncboston]

Thank you for the Tip I will check it out.

 

[crjackson2134]

WIne Is Not an Emulator

 

[JohnDS]

Parallels http://parallels.com and VMWare Fusion http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html are the two most popular commercial emulators. Virtual Box https://www.virtualbox.org is free, but less polished.

 

[JohnDS]

Also, before anyone calls me out on it, technically none of the programs I mentioned are "emulators". Windows will run natively on a Mac. You can run it is a separate Boot Camp partition, but that requires rebooting to access Windows and you cannot run Windows and OS X simultaneously. The programs above allow you to run Windows while booted from the Mac OS and switch back and forth and even cut and pasted between Windows and Mac applications.

 

[grahamperrin]

spreadsheets (from my PC) with vba macros

For CrossOver, which is related to Wine:

• Microsoft Office 2007 | What Runs | CodeWeavers
• Microsoft Office 2010 | What Runs | CodeWeavers
• Microsoft Office 2013 | What Runs | CodeWeavers
• Microsoft Office 365 | What Runs | CodeWeavers

Before I shifted away from OS X, I sometimes found it necessary to run Outlook 2010. CrossOver was the best solution.

 

[KALLT]

You can also use Wineskin or PlayOnMac as alternatives to CrossOver (i.e. Wine), but you might have to tweak with the configuration a bit. PlayOnMac has configurations for Microsoft Office too.