MS Access on Macs

[buhgman33]

I have developed and MS Access scheduling program for PC's. There is a lot of VB code involved in this. Would this program be oprable on a MAC computer? Please let know, thanks for your help.

 

[sxschech]

If you have an intel mac and have parallels or bootcamp, along with windows and access installed in the windows partition, you should be able to run your access files and programs there.

 

[buhgman33]

I am not sure what you mean by parallels or bootcamp. I no close to nothing about Macs. Would this mean that they would have to have a dual operating system (ie Windows also installed besides the standard Mac software). Please adivse.
Thanks

 

[sxschech]

Yes. I haven't installed it yet myself, but have seen it on other people's computers. My understanding is that bootcamp is free and Parallels isn't. What they do is create a windows partition on the mac hard disk and then installing a legal copy of MS-Windows in that partition. Then you can switch betweeen Mac and Windows and the computer works just like a regular windows machine. The main dif between bootcamp and parallels is that with bootcamp, you have to reboot to switch between OS's whilst parallels allows them to run concurently.

 

[buhgman33]

Thank you very much.