newsbin on macosx with wine?

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newsbin on macosx with wine?

Postby wiredog » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:28 am

Hi

Is it possible to run newsbin on a mac using wine or something like that?

I just got a mac and none of the native mac newsreaders can compete with newsbin on binaries. So I would like to avoid installing windows on the mac and run newsbin like in linux. Is that possible (its a intel mac).
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Postby DThor » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:00 am

It's early days yet with wine on OSX. I believe Smite here in the forums tried it out and had trouble getting wine running. He might jump in if he had any success.

Apparently Parallels works OK, as long as you don't mind the significant overhead of running a full Windows install in a window.

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Postby Smite » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:52 pm

Yeah, I gave up on darwine when it didn't do anything at all when attempting to run the NewsBin installer.

Since my laptop has limited storage, I've just kept running NB on my PC instead.

If you do get it running though, be sure to let us know how you did it. :)
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Postby digitalfrog » Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:54 am

I'm moving to OSX, no more Micro$oft stuff at my home.

Well.... almost.

I still use XP in a vmware fusion session but I find it silly to keep all that only to run a usenet news software.

As much as I love newsbin, has anyone found a good osx alternative ?

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Postby ksquires » Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:35 am

digitalfrog wrote:
As much as I love newsbin, has anyone found a good osx alternative ?

Thx

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Unison isn't horribly bad - if you have a decent way of getting NZBs (i haven't downloaded headers in ages :) then Unison will do the trick. Not super sure about a comparison to Newsbin's autorar feature though
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Postby wiredog » Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:55 pm

newsbin works just fine for me with crossover wine on osx. It looks a bit wierd, but works fine.
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Postby metope » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:10 am

I have been running Newsbin using VMWare fusion. It is great. Only wish though that there was a native version of Newsbin for Mac. Buy VMWare fusion and run it on Fusion using Unity and you will barely note the difference.
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Postby spalek83 » Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:52 am

i use unison on snow and it's pretty sweet, though am still waiting for that newsbin osx version as unison is lacking a few features.
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Postby richy99 » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:04 am

spalek83 wrote:i use unison on snow and it's pretty sweet, though am still waiting for that newsbin osx version as unison is lacking a few features.


doubt there will ever be a port to osx
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Postby Quade » Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:58 am

Not until you mac people build up you popularity. I suspect Win7 is going reduce the rate of people abandoning windows. I never say never though.

I'd have to buy a mac though.
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snow leopard on amd system right here :)

Postby spalek83 » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:14 am

you don't need to buy a mac to use os x :P
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Postby DThor » Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:51 pm

This is an old thread. Have you tried wine? I've heard of success stories.

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Postby Porkrinds » Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:50 pm

Newsbin 5.55B3 is running fine for me using the wine-devel package from MacPorts.

'Fine' to me is program loading, and doing its intended job. It downloads, does par2 checking, and automatic unraring. I have not tested anything else.

OSX 10.6.2, late 2009 Mac Mini 2.53GHz/320GB/4GB
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Postby DThor » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:42 pm

I thought Mac users might find this interesting, maybe report back if it works with Newsbin:

http://lifehacker.com/5440703/winebottl ... plications

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