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No support is guaranteed for this way of using the programs. My programs only use documented Windows routines so may perhaps work with Wine. The Wine approach is completely free, developed independently from Microsoft, see the wikipedia article Wine for details. You may be able to run them on Linux using Wine, or again, a virtual machine. All these solutions require you to own a copy of one of the Windows operating systems, however they do let you run Mac and Windows programs at the same time on the same machine. For a Mac, you can try Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMWare Work Station, or (for older non Intel macs) Virtual PC (reported to work, but it's slow). You may be able to run them on Linux or a Mac alongside your other programs, if you use a virtual machine. (all the links in this page open in new windows)
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There are alternative approaches that let you code a program that will work on Windows, Mac and Linux from a single code base, but it has to be done when you plan the original architecture. The thing is that they are all written specifically for Windows at a low level. There are no plans to port any of them to the Mac or Linux.
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The others are not yet fully tested on Vista, but the testing should be finished soon for them too. If the download page says that it is For Vista then the testing on Vista has been completed. They are currently being ported to Vista. They have been tested particularly for Windows XP and Windows 95/98.