Running PC Emulator on Tiger

I am a bead designer who can not find bead designing software for Mac's. So I am looking at a PC program which I have been told may be accessed by using an PC emulator. The one I am looking at is iEmulator 1.7.8 (http://www.iemulator.com/) to be used to access the Bead Cellar software (http://www.beadcellar.com/tbcpd.asp). iEmulator says it works with Windows 98, Me, Windown NT & 2000 and Windows XP, as does the Bead Cellar software.
I had never heard of a PC emulator software until yesterday so I am a bit leary. Is there anything I should be aware of. My Mac is running very smoothly right now, can a PC emulator program cause problems?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated

Hi, B.E.
Most folks that need to run PC / Windows software on Mac OS X use Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac. More expensive than iEmulator, but probably more widely used.
PC emulators can cause issues. Sometimes your PC app doesn't like the emulator because the emulator isn't well-written. Sometimes the emulators can cause other problems: they're programs, emulating a complex bit of hardware, i.e. an PC processor chip. Running PC apps in an emulator won't give you the same performance as running the PC app on a PC. Since they let you run Windows, you're then generally exposed to the same security problems as Windows.
To see if there's a Mac app that will meet your needs instead of running the PC app under an emulator, search MacUpdate or Version Tracker. The user-submitted reviews accompanying the listings are helpful in sorting the wheat from the chaff.
If there's no Mac app that does what you want, then using Virtual PC and your PC app would be my advice: VPC has good support and is widely used.
The MacWindows site has several reports on different versions of Virtual PC which you might find helpful. See the list of these under "Emulators" in the right margin. The current version of Virtual PC is VPC 7.x, so you may want to review the MacWindows Virtual PC 7 Report. They also have a report on alternatives to VPC, including a few Reader Reports on iEmulator.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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