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I went to buy the KARMA software last night but discovered just in time that it won't work on Lion. Not sure why it is taking so long to port (or if they are even porting it) unless it was built under Carbon and needs a complete rewrite for Cocoa.

In the meantime, I'm wondering if people have had any luck running the existing windows version on a Mac, either through a VM or (preferably) through WINE

I would seem that you are correct - the switch to cocoa can be huge and time consuming. They have been busy over there with the motif release and it isn't like there is a team - I think it is just Stephen.
I remember reading something on the site and also a post from someone that running under a virtual windows setup has some problems. But I can't give you details. It would be interesting to know. Now that the required OS is two major versions old that will start to matter to people as Apple is pretty aggressive in getting people to change. I am starting to get a lot of "this app won't run on your current OS" messages

I am in the same boat.

Stephan has told me that it runs under VMware and parallels, he is also working on getting the osx version updated.

The only issue he said was possible to get some timing issues when using karma GEs running on the computer.

I'm keep meaning to order it and give it a go but life has got in the way!

OK --- I really don't understand KARMA at all (there's so much to it) so I figured it would be easier to understand it if I had the software package. I guess I'll wait for new version, hopefully it won't be too long.

I asked him a while back about running it in Wine (in Linux, not in OSX) and Stephen told me that to his knowledge, the Windows version would NOT run. Without a demo to test with, I had no way to verify this statement. I did not want to purchase the software at that point, knowing that there would be a good chance that I had no way to run it.

Download the manual from http://www.karma-lab.com/karmasoft/kk/docs.html there is a load of usefull info on that page.