CrossOver: An Update

I posted about CrossOver in an eponymous post on the 30th March 2025. At that time I said that my trial version would soon expire (probably after 30 days). However, I've never closed the program down nor rebooted my laptop and so Astrolog continues to run without any problems. I fear that once I reboot the laptop in order to install updates (which I've been postponing), then I'll be face with paying for the software to work. It's only for Astrolog that I need the CrossOver at all.

The convenience of having Astrolog running on my laptop however, means that I would pay the money for the software if I was forced to. In these uncertain times, I've been using it almost every day to monitor the aspects that transiting planets are casting to my natal planets. I should also monitor the Astrolog website. Who knows, someone may come up with dmg file one day that will enable easy installation on the Silicon Macs.

In the screenshot shown, I tried to click on Astrolog website link but got an expired message. This means that once I close Astrolog and try to restart it, I'll get an expired alert. In the meantime I'll refrain from either closing the program and from rebooting my laptop so that I can continue using the program. With the way that AI is progressing, it may soon be possible to take an open source Windows program like Astrolog and modify the code so that it will run under Mac OS on the Silicon Macs. 

Here is what Gemini had to say about the possibility when prompted: link.

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UPDATE: see my Pedagogical Posturing blog post Astrolog Reinstalled on the 22nd September 2025.

CrossOver

Wow, over one year since my last post that was also my only post of 2024. Recently I spent some time trying to get various free software programs to run Astrolog on my M1 Macbook Air. None of them worked. Finally I tried a trial version of CrossOver and I got Astrolog working perfectly.

The only problem is that it costs $64 USD to purchase which is expensive considering that I really only need to run Astrolog and no other Windows programs. Furthermore, you only get upgrades for one year following your purchase and after that any upgrades will cost you money. I'm not sure how much but, given that it is only Astrolog that I need to run, I really won't need any upgrades. My trial will expire soon so I'll have to make the decision whether to purchase it or not. 

If I do go ahead and make the purchase and I'm still using it after 64 months then the software has cost me $1 USD per month for that period of time. Viewed from that perspective, the cost isn't such an issue. Meanwhile I should make an effort to resuscitate this blog. I do make more frequent posts to my AstroWatch blog where I deal with astrological issues that affect me personally. The content of this blog was intended to relate to mundane astrology.