Ted, John, et al - Don’t give up! As John said, there are several options. I’ve never used the Oracle product, but for quite a few years I’ve been running the VMWare product called Fusion. Currently running on a 27” late 2012 iMac with 8GB RAM. I have several Ubuntu Linux guests in addition to a Windows 10 guest that run on this setup. I’ve got quite a few Windows-only applications that I use the Win10 guest for. In all these years I’ve never come across an application that would not run as a guest under Fusion. I’ve got the applications on the ARRL Handbook and Antenna book, EZnec, and the software that controls my AIM-4170 antenna analyzer, in addition to other applications - all work fine.
My logging is done on the Mac OS side - I use MacLoggerDX. Several months back I built a couple little SDR rigs and drove them with software running on both Windows and Linux. I used a logging program called CQRlog for logging those QSO’s. It was a simple matter to export the ADIF records from CQRlog and put them into MLDX when I was done operating the SDR. Give Fusion a shot - works great! 73, Jim / W6JHB Folsom, CA > On Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016, at Wednesday, 9:30 AM, John <j...@eeek.org.uk> > wrote: > > Hi Ted, > > I wouldn't bother with an 'emulator' as such, instead what I'd do is go and > grab some virtualisation software (personally I use Oracle's Virtualbox), and > install a full copy of Windows inside that. You can then install whatever > apps you like (as long as they aren't too graphics-hungry), and give that > machine 'direct access' to whatever hardware devices you need to - serial > ports, USB ports etc. > > I'm not, as it happens, aware of any 'emulators' that let you run individual > apps as if they were running in Windows, but a VM is cleaner (and you'll not > have issues with drivers because every device becomes a generic device once > the VM hypervisor starts passing it through). > > 73, and a firm left handshake, > John (XLX) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dauer, > Edward > Sent: 12 October 2016 17:21 > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [Elecraft] Windows Emulator > > I give up. > > I have tried to be faithful to my decision of a few years ago, to swear off > Windows and work exclusively with Mac OS. But there’s just too much that I > want that isn’t available in OS – Spectrogram, for example, and any number of > logging programs I’d like to try. > > It’s not time yet for a new computer, and I want to keep all of my Mac apps > and files intact; so the question is what sort of Windows emulator would be > best to install in the Mac computers. I use a 4-year old MacBook Air as a > laptop and an even older iMac on my desk. Both now run OS X Yosemite and I > will not upgrade to Sierra, in case that matters. > > Advice? Thanks in advance, > > Ted, KN1CBR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message > delivered to j...@eeek.org.uk > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to w6...@me.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
