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Mac and RailPro
William Brillinger:
Greg is correct, a cheap windows laptop is probably the best solution.
Brian W.:
I'm using my Macbook with Bootcamp partitioned off for windows RailPro. Works good except sometimes I forget how to jump back and forth!
darryl.trains:
Sometime back when I did a show and tell at the local club with the usage of RailPro, two members said it was very interesting but since RP does not work with Apple, they both said no deal. Also one of the members asked about using RP in N scale engines? Well we all know that answer. Too bad but RP could have been more user friendly. Oh ya, I had to buy a cheap PC but it went belly up sometime back and I'm not going to buy another one. Your version ?
G8B4Life:
--- Quote from: gregeusa on May 21, 2025, 01:03:07 PM ---Another option is to buy a cheap laptop, can be had for $200 new (just bought an Asus L210)
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It's not the end of the world to learn enough of windows to just run a program... then you have the approved platform if you have issues.
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Buying another piece of hardware to use it for just that one purpose is not the way forward and just compounds the problem.
Anyway, you don't have to use Windows to run RPA and HC Sim, though it is of course much simpler. 5 years ago I demonstrated getting both RPA and HC Sim working on Linux with Wine. Yes the journey to make it work was definitely not in the realm of everyday users but it was possible and one user successfully followed my instructions and got it going themselves. Wine is also available for macOS 10.15.4 and later. On the virtual machine front I also at one time had RPA and HC Sim working on ReactOS (basically a free opensource clone of Windows). This would likely still work with a compatibility version patch to RPA and HC Sim.
- Tim
gregeusa:
simpllifying the install and costing less in time and money compounds the problem?
buy a cheap laptop, leave it "static", no updates, no changes... that simplifies things
then your "primary" computer that MUST be updated no longer can mess up your simple task of programming..
I don't get your logic, but let's not start an argument.
Greg
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