Watchtower library on M1 Mac?

[Mykyl]

Has anyone managed to get the watchtower dvd to run on an M1 Mac through windows or any other means?

 

thanks

 

 

[Hotteok]

Have you solved this problem? I currently have a MacBook too and would like to install WL. 

[Mykyl]

No. Not actually tried for a while. Parallels works but I wouldn’t recommend it as when the arm version of windows is out of beta we may lose access to it. 
 

JwLibrary runs perfectly though. 

[ChrisC]

It works using the 2 week trial of Crossover on M1 MacBook Air.

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover/

Unfortunately the full version is £46.

Perhaps someone could try using WINE? (I am still a bit unfamiliar with MacOS and it sounded more scary!)

https://www.winehq.org

 

(It looks like a couple of icons are invisible. Sorry for the huge image.)

[Barrowman]

I used to run Watchtower Library under wine on Linux but now I use Watchtower Online Library as it is similar to WT Library and JW Library.

It offers more than JW Library and soon Watchtower Library will not be getting updates if they haven't already finished.

 

[jwhess]

2 hours ago, Barrowman said:

I used to run Watchtower Library under wine on Linux but now I use Watchtower Online Library as it is similar to WT Library and JW Library.

It offers more than JW Library and soon Watchtower Library will not be getting updates if they haven't already finished.

 

As I mentioned on another thread, WOL is internet dependent.  WTL is installed on my own device to use at any time.

 

Side point:  the Watchtower Library just updated about a month ago.  It has the 2022 Meeting Workbook for January included.  So it is still getting updates.

Edited December 29, 2021 by jwhess

[LoverOfJah1959]

I purchased Crossover too and Watchtower Library runs flawlessly on my M1 MacBook Air. I hope this helps. It’s great that the JW Library is available now too for these Macs. 

[jwhess]

On 12/29/2021 at 6:51 AM, Barrowman said:

I used to run Watchtower Library under wine on Linux but now I use Watchtower Online Library as it is similar to WT Library and JW Library.

It offers more than JW Library and soon Watchtower Library will not be getting updates if they haven't already finished.

 

Br. Norman, the Watchtower Library had a regular update today.  Still going strong.

[Rickee]

LoverofJah1959

Please explain how JWLibrary runs on Mac. (Do you mean with Parralels?)

[LoverOfJah1959]

I am using the App from Code Weavers called CrossOver to run Watchtower Library on CD-ROM on my M1 Mac-book Air. I hope this helps.

 

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

 

Roger

[Barrowman]

Thanks, I run the standard WineHQ version of wine and have installed WTLibrary on my Linux Mint laptop. This starts up and runs quicker than on Windows. I get automatic updates to it. That's not the problem I had. It's running JW library that can't be done because i can't even download the installer at all so there is no way to run it. However I am no longer bothered about it as I have installed a version of Android on Virtualbox and have installed JW Library on that. So I can run it now. However I don't bother while I have internet access as I use the online library which is more comprehensive than JW Library.

[tejinashi]

I downloaded Watchtower Library today 2022 August 16th (yl_E.exe). I used the cross-over application to run the installer in a windows 7 64 Bit bottle. The install looked perfect. But I have no text in the body of the application. The application menus and all look fine. YMMV

 

^^^^^^

I ran the update and it looks great now. Everything is there. To me it is the worth the $50 bucks or so for CrossOver. I just printed an article and came out perfect!