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You’ve found yourself in that sticky situation: You love your Mac, but there is that one program on Windows that you just can’t do without. Sure, you could buy a PC to run that software – but that is a lot of money up front just to keep running that one piece of software. We can help you there! And even better, we want you to try before you buy. Let’s walk you through how to use your Parallels Desktop for Mac trial so you can be sure that it is the solution that is right for you!
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One barrier to trying virtualization for some users – especially those in technology testing software, is figuring what Windows environment you need. It gets expensive buying OSes – not to mention difficult if you’re looking for a specific older version of Windows! You’re in luck, you can check out Microsoft’s Developer Technologies page, and try a variety of virtual machines and environments for 90 days. Combine that with your 14 day free trial of Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can be sure that this virtual solution and environment is right for you before you buy either!
What if you don’t know what version of Parallels Desktop for Mac you need? We have a Standard edition, Pro, and Business – and if you’re like us, you want to try before you buy. What is great about the 14 day free trial of Parallels Desktop for Mac is that you can choose which edition you use in your trial. You can even switch in the middle of your trial. Check out the comparison chart below and you can see which edition you want to start with. Find there is something in another edition you want to check out? Switch to a different edition and give it a shot all for free!
This is one of our favorite parts of Parallels Desktop for Mac: Choose your view! Just because you need to run Windows, it doesn’t mean you have to have the whole Windows desktop running on your Mac Desktop! Some people like to keep Windows running on one monitor and their macOS of choice on the other – They like knowing where something is going to open, or keeping exact track of what environment they are working in. For others, they would rather be in Coherence and have everything look native and fluid. It only takes one click of the blue button in your Windows Desktop for Coherence mode.
What is Coherence? Think of it like an instance of Windows running behind just that one program you’ve got on your Mac, only in Windows. Here’s an example below: The macOS is running in the background, but the windows browser is running, with no Windows Desktop to contain it. It looks and feels like it is a program running completely native on your Mac!
Rather than going to Parallels Desktop at the top of my Mac menu bar, Views, and Exit Coherence, you can just click on a button and it’s that simple: You’re back with everything running in Windows. The Coherence Mode button saves a few extra steps!
We know it can be overwhelming getting all your Virtual Machines (VMs) up and running, and then getting your software up and running. Our support team is here to help! To make it even easier, you can tweet directly to our support team: @ParallelsCares.
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Welcome to the quick and easy way to run Freehand MX on a newer Mac. This software solution is intended for current users of FH on Macs.
Note: 4.26.2021 – OSXFH will NOT run on Apple’s new M1 chip. We are working on porting OSXFH to the new machines via Parallels V16.5 .
We are a small design company that relies heavily on Freehand MX and successfully runs the software on the latest Mac OSX on Intel Apple computers.
We are providing our software solution to FH MX users in cooperation and coordination with the FreehandForum community.
is hosting a forum dedicated to support the users of OSXFH solution.
OSXFH is a software file that works within Parallels desktop software for mac. Parallels is a hardware virtualization software for Mac computers used to run windows/linux/unix and former MacOSX operating systems. Parallels runs these virtual machines within files called .pvm – (parallels virtual machine).
We supply the custom OSXFH.pvm file which Parallels can open and run.
Within OSXFH.pvm are preinstalled full working versions of:
OSX Snow leopard 10.6.8 and Freehand MX 11.0.2, no passwords, codes or serial numbers needed.
Migration assistant is also available within Snow Leopard server in case you want to migrate other software programs from a computer running snow leopard and rosetta apps, such as: Font managers, design utilities, Photoshop or Illustrator (pre-CC), Fonts, files and other discontinued apps.
Mac System Requirements: (updated April-2021)
Any Intel Mac Computer running the following OSX:
Big Sur
Catalina 10.15.1 & higher
Mojave 10.14.1 & higher
High Sierra 13.3.2 & higher
16 Gb of RAM is optimal and 15GB Hard drive space.
To Run OSXFH on a new Intel Mac you will need to:
1. Purchase the ‘Parallels Desktop for Mac V16’ software from Parallels.com or use the 30 day trial. *2
Parallels Desktop V16 is backwards compatible to High Sierra OSX 13.
Please purchase via our affiliate link below so we can track & show Parallels how large our user community is: *2
2 Purchase the OSXFH.pvm file from us via paypal. Price $125-
We will send you a download link within 24 hours of purchase to the email address used to purchase via Paypal.
The OSXFH download file is large, 4.5 GB – because it contains the fully functional Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.8 and the Freehand software preinstalled.
Please read the install page before installing.
Do not install Parallels till you have downloaded the OSXFH.pvm. Read the install instructions – otherwise Parallels will install windows OS as default.
*2 We recommend 16GB+ of RAM for your system, OSXFH will run on the Virtual Machines available RAM to a max of 8GB within Parallels Home version and a max of 128GB RAM within the PRO Version.
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