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

[Bob Nielsen]

Some of us use Macs because we want to avoid Windows software, among  
other reasons.


On Aug 17, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Richard Kriss wrote:

> 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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>
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