problem running sc4 on parellels

[Red Lightning 7]

 hi,

I am having problem running sc4 on parellels (virtual desktop on mac). I have go windows 7 ultimate and windows vista home premium, but both say this!

 

 but I have the game in the computer and it hums away but does nothing!

please help

RED

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Running under wine and UBUNTU, I have to have the disk mounted.  The game finds it fine, then.

[Red Lightning 7]

what is wine and UBUNTU? and what do you mean: disk mounted?

RED

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

In your operating system, for which you have undoubtedly coughed up a staggering amound of change, there must be a facility to mount your disk or make it known to the operating system.  I suspect your problem is that SC4 doesn't find your disk in the O/S's inventory of devices.

UBUNTU is an operating system based on Debian which is based on Linux.  It is run by the GNU group.

wine is a kernel add-on program that attaches itself directly to the Linux kernel and runs Windows executables under whatever operating system you are running.  Works on Mac O/S X too.

This is a free operating system.  You can download the ISO, burn it on a disk and try it without installing.  It has been called Linux for people.  I've been using it for about two years now since I gave up on Microshaft.  This O/S works on any box I have seen so far.

[Red Lightning 7]

ok, I will try that. but Will it still run mods and addons?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Of course.  Mods and add-ons load with the game from your hard disk.  Having the disk mounted is just a kind o fancy password to ensure that you paid for the game.

[Red Lightning 7]

ok, thank you for your help