swapd0 Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hi, my PC died somedays ago and i'm thinking in buying a Mac Mini (or Mini Mac ), just because i always hated PC and windows vista is comming... Someone have tried to upload something to the jaguar with a mac? or with a PC but ussing some USB -> Parallel converter. I remember the catnip project (usb to jaguar), it's working, finished, canceled...? regards swap d0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Someone have tried to upload something to the jaguar with a mac? or with a PC but ussing some USB -> Parallel converter.If I remember well, Macs never had a parallel ports, so you can't use the normal BJL cable with them. USB-to-parallel adapters definitely don't work for BJL. PCI parallel-port cards work (at last with Windows), but I don't know if the Mac mini has PCI slots and if there are drivers. I remember the catnip project (usb to jaguar), it's working, finished, canceled...?It's basically working, not 100% finished, but usable. I even ported the code to run on Macs (a friend lent me his Macbook for a few days) and it seemed to work fine. I'm now working on the JagCF, so the project has been "paused", especially since it's not useful if you already have a JagCF. But if you really don't have another solution and if we can find time (not easy ), maybe SCPCD and I can build one for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swapd0 Posted September 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 You are right, the Macs never had a parallel port, and i'm almost sure that the mini mac don't have a internal pci slot (not enought space) JagCF looks great, but i think that the catnip project is a must for modern computers if you can't buy a JagCF. Anyway first I must but the computer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety Posted October 4, 2008 Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 Would be great to see this work on a Mac, mostly because I hate Windows computers... But there is also the Atari computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belboz Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 If Tursi does a run of any more skunkboards you should get one of those. They are USB based and work with Windows/Mac/Linux great. Gives you a better alternative to BJL for RAM based downloads, and also has 4MB of Flash ROM on it for testing ROM code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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