[Aavso-photometry] PT using a Mac and Parallels

[Gary Walker]

Hello Patrick

Thats really a great step forward by Software Bisque to provide these 
programs in Mac OS.

Now if I could just get the same Mac OS version of Chuck Ferranda's 
Temma Driver, Optec's TCF-S drivers, ASCOM 5.0 and Princeton 
Instruments Pixis Driver, I could do the same.  With Parallels, I can 
get rid of the windows pc, but will still be dependent on Windows XP.  
I am not holding my breath.  If only one of these is not available, it 
means that I will still have to run the emulator.

Thanks

Clear Skies
Gary Walker
Maria Mitchell Observatory
4 Vestal Street
Nantucket, Mass  02554


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw at wirelessbeehive.com>
To: aavso-photometry at aavso.org
Sent: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 1:55 am
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] PT using a Mac and Parallels

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
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