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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Mac and RailPro
« Last post by snowdog on September 09, 2025, 10:14:48 PM »The instructions were clear enough for me to work through. If you need help, I would volunteer.
Bryan
Bryan
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.
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