I've seen Tim mention a few times that he is looking for info regarding running PowerSDR on a Mac. The long and short of it is, that as of now the only 'official' Mac OS that can run Boot Camp is OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and only on Intel based Macs.
If you upgrade from a prior version of OS X, or do a clean install, Boot Camp is now part of the install. All you do is go to the utilities folder and run Boot Camp Assistant. BCA will ask you for you to determine a Windows partition size, it will make a Windows driver CD and then you insert your Windows XP (SP2) or Vista media and restart. Once the machine restarts it does a 'regular' Windows install as it would happen on any Intel computer. That's it. When you boot up your system just hold down the option key and a menu will show up asking which partition to boot. Now I know there are those out there running OS X 10.3 or 10.4 with earlier (beta) versions of Boot Camp. However these versions are no longer officially available. You can also no longer download a standalone Boot Camp installer. A simple search will also show that now Leopard has been released the license for earlier versions of Boot Camp are officially expired. Therefore the only 'official' way to run Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp is as outlined above. I'm sure it has also been mentioned before the you can run Windows inside OS X with Parallels, Wine, etc. The only program I can speak to is Parallels. While it will run Windows and PowerSDR just fine there is no Firewire support in Windows under Parallels. Therefore you can't run any of the Firewire based sound cards. I guess it is possible that if you have a PowerMac, Delta 4 and SDR-1000 w/ usb cable you could possibly have a combination that would work. But unless someone has actually done it I wouldn't consider it a viable option. So I hope I've distilled some of the Mac mystery. Just run Boot Camp, install Windows and boot into the Windows partition. Dana N1OFZ I hope sometime in the future DttSP and something like John's Java GUI become a viable alternative to running PowerSDR under Windows. I'd love to reclaim that space being taken up by that darn Windows partition ;-) _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
