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Hi there, I've got a wee problem. I run Fedora 10 with KDE but the need has arisen to access an ancient, well about 6 years old, Filemaker database. I ...
  1. 05-14-2009 #1
    miserablist
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    Need to access old Mac software from Fedora

    Hi there, I've got a wee problem.
    I run Fedora 10 with KDE but the need has arisen to access an ancient, well about 6 years old, Filemaker database. I was wondering if there was any form of emulation or something like wine to allow me to use mac software.
    I don't have a mac to be able to access it so I need to find a way to export the data within it in order to create an Open Office database.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks in advance.
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    HROAdmin26
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    You're not going to get a "Mac" emulator of that age running on X86 hardware. Macs of that time period were PowerPC - a completely different processor architecture from X86.

    I would suggest running Windows (either natively or in a virtual machine), installing the Windows version of Filemaker, and accessing the DB that way.

    Make sure you copy the DB files *first* so that if anything bad happens, you have a backup copy.

    You can also visit the FileMaker forums.
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