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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Mac and RailPro
« Last post by William Brillinger on May 21, 2025, 03:29:52 PM »Greg is correct, a cheap windows laptop is probably the best solution.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Mac and RailPro
« Last post by 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)
windows 11, brand new...
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.
The other alternative is get a good MAC friend to set you up with a virtual drive or parallels or a dual boot.. still if it has issues, people may blame the environment for problems.
(surely your Mac Book Pro was WAY over $200 !!! )
Greg
windows 11, brand new...
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.
The other alternative is get a good MAC friend to set you up with a virtual drive or parallels or a dual boot.. still if it has issues, people may blame the environment for problems.
(surely your Mac Book Pro was WAY over $200 !!! )
Greg
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Mac and RailPro
« Last post by mickey on May 21, 2025, 07:53:45 AM »I have a MacBook Pro with Parallels installed to run Windows 11 and RailPro works. But if you have any issues, he won’t be able to help. It does sometimes have an issue of connecting to their website (internet) so you have to try multiple times. He has no ideas so I just live with it. There is some configuring to get the Comm port set, but once done it works fine. Owning a small software company, what Greg said is exactly correct. It’s a resources for amount of potential issue.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Mac and RailPro
« Last post by fishindogwood on May 20, 2025, 11:09:32 PM »I’m in the same boat with having MacBook Pro equipment I still am holding out on buying all the Railpro stuff I’ll be needing to do 22+ locos and all the controllers and accessories. Not really wanting to now have to purchase and mess with Windows on a MacBook because of this.
Was holding onto hope the Mac version was soon to be offered like other things have both available. Been contemplating how to manuver this quandary.
Was holding onto hope the Mac version was soon to be offered like other things have both available. Been contemplating how to manuver this quandary.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Mac and RailPro
« Last post by gregeusa on May 20, 2025, 07:58:29 PM »The mac's have 15% of the US market in pc's....
RP is a small company, and it costs time and money to develop a second version and support it with the needed regression testing.
put a virtual machine on your mac and then load windows is the best thing to do
RP is a small company, and it costs time and money to develop a second version and support it with the needed regression testing.
put a virtual machine on your mac and then load windows is the best thing to do
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New Users Start Here / Re: Introduce Yourself...
« Last post by Espeelark on May 20, 2025, 04:45:37 PM »Howdy Patrick!
I started using RailPro ~5 years ago and haven't looked back. I'm in the construction mode of my double-deck layout and only have five locos up and running with RP to this point. I have numerous friends with layouts that utilize various OEM DCC systems. I've seen no reason to switch. I'm happy!
I started using RailPro ~5 years ago and haven't looked back. I'm in the construction mode of my double-deck layout and only have five locos up and running with RP to this point. I have numerous friends with layouts that utilize various OEM DCC systems. I've seen no reason to switch. I'm happy!
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Mac and RailPro
« Last post by MAC on May 20, 2025, 03:23:30 PM »Calling all RailPro Mac users,
May I encourage you all to contact Ring Engineering and ask them to either make a MAC-compatible version of RailPro Assistant or to create a web-based version (as they've told me they plan to do - eventually) that will work on PCs or Macs?
When I approached Ring with this request, the response was dismissive: Ring are convinced there aren't enough Mac users among their customers to warrant such an undertaking. Would you please take a moment to contact Ring and tell them they're wrong in this presumption? We may not, in fact, be a large group, but I'm sure there are enough of us to justify - indeed, demand - providing this customer service.
Thank you for your consideration, time and, hopefully, action.
MAC
May I encourage you all to contact Ring Engineering and ask them to either make a MAC-compatible version of RailPro Assistant or to create a web-based version (as they've told me they plan to do - eventually) that will work on PCs or Macs?
When I approached Ring with this request, the response was dismissive: Ring are convinced there aren't enough Mac users among their customers to warrant such an undertaking. Would you please take a moment to contact Ring and tell them they're wrong in this presumption? We may not, in fact, be a large group, but I'm sure there are enough of us to justify - indeed, demand - providing this customer service.
Thank you for your consideration, time and, hopefully, action.
MAC
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: lost locomotive
« Last post by G8B4Life on May 20, 2025, 08:42:20 AM »They are definitely multi use. You can take it out and put it in what you like as many times as you want.
If all you did was physically remove the LM and reinstall it in another loco and nothing else then find product won't find it because the HC still has it in it's list of modules. You'll just have to find it in the existing list as the old locomotive and change the picture and settings you want.
If you removed the LM from the HC as well using the remove product button and find product isn't re-finding it then check your wiring to the LM. It's also possible that it wasn't removed properly from the HC's list in which case you'd have to use the remove all products button to properly delete it from the HC. You then have to add everything back to the HC.
- Tim
If all you did was physically remove the LM and reinstall it in another loco and nothing else then find product won't find it because the HC still has it in it's list of modules. You'll just have to find it in the existing list as the old locomotive and change the picture and settings you want.
If you removed the LM from the HC as well using the remove product button and find product isn't re-finding it then check your wiring to the LM. It's also possible that it wasn't removed properly from the HC's list in which case you'd have to use the remove all products button to properly delete it from the HC. You then have to add everything back to the HC.
- Tim
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: New RPT-1 Radio Repeater Accounced September 17, 2024
« Last post by G8B4Life on May 20, 2025, 08:30:38 AM »I don't have one of these so not sure of how it's built inside but if it's like other RP products the transmitter is on the same side as the logo etc on the products wrapper. If that side is not facing the trains try changing the orientation of the repeater to the track to see if that helps; It might it be possible that your transmitting most of your repeaters energy away from the trains.
- Tim
- Tim
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New Users Start Here / Re: Introduce Yourself...
« Last post by G8B4Life on May 20, 2025, 08:14:53 AM »Welcome Patrick.
RailPro is certainly still a viable system. You don't see a whole lot online about RP because in the mainstream hobby RailPro seems to be a dirty word "because it's not DCC and it's propriety". Most of us with RP just brush that off while laughing at the same DCC folk who then suggest you need to standardise on one brand of decoder to make your fleet work properly together because "proprietary features".
As far as I know, everyone here still likes the system though a couple of us are less enthralled than we used to be.
- Tim
RailPro is certainly still a viable system. You don't see a whole lot online about RP because in the mainstream hobby RailPro seems to be a dirty word "because it's not DCC and it's propriety". Most of us with RP just brush that off while laughing at the same DCC folk who then suggest you need to standardise on one brand of decoder to make your fleet work properly together because "proprietary features".
As far as I know, everyone here still likes the system though a couple of us are less enthralled than we used to be.
- Tim