[Ham-Mac] Using Windows Contesting Software on a Mac

[Richard Kriss]

The following is a copy of my 16-Aug posting to the rtty-contesting
reflector.  I received all kinds of comments about Soft PC, Virtual PC, Boot
Camp and Parallels as well as one smart-ass remark about Mac users.  Several
replied they are thinking about a Mac for their next computer but want to be
able to run the existing contesting software.  Nobody came back with a
success story so I am concerned none of the contesting software will run
under CrossOver Mac.

Again the purpose of the posting was (and is) to find out if someone has
been able to run some the popular* Windows based contesting software using
CrossOver on a Mac Intel computer.

Note *  See AA5AU's Survey at for the popular contesting softare.
<http://www.rttycontesting.com/2007survey/2007surveyresults.html>

- WriteLog (includes use with MMTTY engine)
- N1MM Loggers (includes use with MMTTY engine)
- RCKRtty or RCKLog
- MixW
- MTTY (Stand-alone program)

Maybe I will have better luck with the polling the Mac community for
compatibility with CrossOver Mac. I have not tried CrossOver because I do
not have any of the PC software.

===  Copy of the posting to rtty-contesting =====

From: "Richard Kriss" <aa5vu at sbcglobal.net>
To: "rtty-contesting" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 14:41
Subject: [RTTY] Using Windows Contesting Software on a Mac

Just checking to see if anyone with an Intel powered Mac (or Linux computer)
has tried running some of the Windows based RTTY and contest logging/scoring
applications using the CrossOver application by Codeweavers?

CrossOver Mac <http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/>
CrossOver Differentiators <http://www.codeweavers.com/products/differences/>

The above link indicates CrossOver runs some Windows applications very well,
some so-so, and some not at all.  I checked the compatibly list at the
CrossOver web page and none of the applications discussed on this reflector
were mentioned.  

The reason for asking is I have a new Apple iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
<http://www.qsl.net/aa5vu/iMac-07.jpg> computer in the shack and the
CrossOver Mac application got my attention as a tool to test drive some of
the PC contesting software.  FYI, the new iMac described at
<http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html> is awesome.

73 Dick AA5VU

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