Cool! Thanks for the hint about CrossOver!
I have not tried SatPC32 this way, but for many programs I have had very good luck using virtual machines. In particular, I have used VirtualBox on Ubuntu and find it to be pretty good. I also use Parallels on my Mac. Of course on a slow machine virtual machines are not so effective, and you still have to have a copy of Windows to install.
73,
Burns W2BFJ
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Richard Lawn rjlawn@gmail.com wrote:
Some of you may have followed my trials and frustrations in trying to get an old XP driven Dell computer to live again. This computer is at a vacation house and I hated to spend money on a new computer. I run eggbeaters and an ft847 there. Here are outcomes, good and bad so far.
- installed Ubuntu and was confident this would be the solution and it
might still, however even the latest version of GPredict is buggy. I suspect the real culprit is Hamlib.
- I installed Wine in Ubuntu in hopes of getting SatPC32 to run. This
nearly worked but a few features didn't. For example I could not switch between modes using SatPC32 and I'm not certain that the CAT frequency adjust is working. Further investigation is required here.
- I then discovered CrossOver which essentially is a commercial version
of Wine for the Mac. Since I never leave home without a Mac laptop I decided to try a CrossOver demo. It took a while and some good "Elmer" support using the terminal program to configure the comm port, but once I solved that problem I found that the MacBook Pro running CrossOver will run SatPC32 perfectly! CrossOver is reasonably priced for your Mac.
So that's where I ended up. I've not yet abandoned learning my way around Linux as it's been a good learning experience and I really appreciate the online support I received from fellow hams.
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