How to convert Flash EXEs to run on a Mac?

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The government where I'm working has distributed DVDs with teacher's guides and course materials to teachers and volunteers working on a new environmental education project. When I loaded the DVD into my Mac, the DVD title showed up under "Devices" in Finder windows, but it was grayed-out and couldn't be opened. (I had to go into Terminal and use "drutil eject" to get it out.)

Today I tested the DVD in a Windows laptop and it worked without any problems. The interface is composed of Flash EXEs. I can access all of the other files on the disk -- PDFs, PPTXs, &c. -- but they're all in one directory and not always well-named. I'd like to be able to use the interface to access the files when I present to my students.

Does anyone know of a program I can run to convert this DVD of Flash EXEs into something useable on my Mac? I do have access to a Windows laptop, and I was looking into DVD-to-ISO programs this morning, but I don't know if that would solve the problem of the interface being Flash EXEs. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you

chris.campbell · Answer

Unless you have the .swf files, I don't think you'll be able to simply convert the .exe files. However, have you looked into running Windows on the Mac using a virtual machine? If this sounds reasonable, check out the following links:

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

http://www.parallels.com/

https://www.virtualbox.org/

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

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