[Aavso-photometry] PT using a Mac and Parallels

[Patrick Wiggins]

On 22 Jul 2009, at 18:18, Gary Walker wrote:

> I have been trying to use a Mac with Parallels to run XP and various  
> PC software (Maxim, Temma, Optec, and CWF-10 via Maxim)  So far I  
> have not been successful connecting to the Camera (Princeton  
> Instruments via Maxim), however, today I was able to connect to the  
> Tak Mount via Temma.  Still working on the rest.  I will keep you  
> posted.

FWIW, Software Bisque is converting all of their software (CCDSoft,  
TheSky, TPoint, Orchestrate) to run native on OSX.  Unfortunately it  
looks like the complete conversion is going to take a while.

But once it is done I'll finally be able to find out if the dinosaur  
Windows machine I've been running since '99 will float.  :)

patrick