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

[Richard Kriss]

Bob,

I am with you.  No interest in using Boot Camp to be able to run contesting
software.  The CrossOver looks interesting if it could really mount the pc
software on the dock and run under OSX.  Too bad Chen has little or no
contesting interests as his cocoaModem 2.0 works great but is not really
contest software.

I really like the new iMac.... it's like getting new glasses and realize how
much better you can see.

73 Dick


On 8/17/07 1:50 PM, "Bob Nielsen" <n7xy at clearwire.net> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> ===== End of Posting ===========
>> 
>> 
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