Mac OS X : using Pangolin softwares?

[danielbriggs]

Dieter allocates 3MB (out of his 4MB) to the Parallels portion and this seems to really help.

GB!? not MB!!

[Pangolin]

GB!? not MB!!

Hehe. Yes, I just corrected my post as well.

[grovenstien]

So for all of us mactards out there is there any chance Pangolin might port some software to OSx?

Its funny all these people posted that they run windows on OSx via VMware, Parallels and Boot Camp to use Pangolins products.

Perhaps porting live pro livequick etc to OSx may prove worth it for Pangolin, or would the cost of the port be more than the expected revenue?

Interesting.

[kitatit]

In my perfect world this would be great but I'd speculate that only a couple of hundred people world wide at most use it on a Mac.

I imagine it would fragment Pangolin's focus for little gain for them and could only slow and complicate development of new products.

It's good to hear people having success with Parallels, it sure would be nice not to have to re-boot each time.

Having no choice in platform, is probably in the best interest of the the entire user base, including Mac users. That way when trying to solve bugs and people helping eachother learn the software, we can rule out platform differences as the route of the problem.

[Pangolin]

Since Windows XP (which was darn near perfect) we've actually grown to HATE Microsoft Windows and their development tools. There is nothing more that I would like than to completely abandon Microsoft (since their operating systems and programming tools have abandoned us) and go 100% Apple. (By the way, there are three people who work in the Operating System division at Microsoft that use Pangolin products -- two of whom visit this forum. We all hope that Windows 8 will be better...) My constant mantra to Microsoft is STOP FIXING THINGS THAT ARE NOT BROKEN!!!

Regarding us getting QS to run native in Apple, the real problem is one of time... Last time we did a line count, QuickShow is 435,000 lines of code! That was a few months ago, before a few additions, before the addition of three languages (German, Dutch and Russian) and before some bug fixes. By now it's got to be 440,000 or maybe 450,000.

Anyone interested should search for the term "software metrics" and see how many lines of code the average programmer turns out, using average tools during an average day. None of our programmers are average, but still that will give you an idea of the number of YEARS it would take us re-write this.

If there is an Apple programmer out there who has done porting work and who would like to work in this exciting field, please contact me and we'll put you to work right away!

Best regards,

William Benner

[sbk]

Well, I have done some tests here and there, and I encounter some problems to connect to the QM2000.net box, especially with Windows 7 64 bits. It seems to works with WinXP Pro 32 bits, though, but I'd like to keep the Windows 7 and don't have much OS on my computer!


I sent a message to Pangolin, but maybe here somebody can help me too, so here's the copy/paste of the message...

Hello Pangolin,

I have an issue to connect to my QM2000.net box using a Macbook Pro, with Parallels Desktop v6.

1. Parallels with virtual Windows XP 32 bits : I can ping the qm2000, and I can connect to it using LD2000 software, so no problem.

2. Parallels with the Bootcamp partition Windows 7 64 bits : I can ping the qm2000.net, but no way I can connect to it, even when adding the scanner manually...

3. Bootcamp native with Windows 7 64 bits : I can ping the qm2000.net, the LD2000 recognize the board, but when I connect I have messages errors (LD2000.dll : can't open QM2000 driver, followed by LD status / error number -1003.

Can you please tell me if there is known issues using Windows 7 64 bits with qm2000.net? Or maybe is there a patch, or do I something wrong?

Thanks,
Sebastien

[Pangolin]

Well, I have done some tests here and there, and I encounter some problems to connect to the QM2000.net box, especially with Windows 7 64 bits. It seems to works with WinXP Pro 32 bits, though, but I'd like to keep the Windows 7 and don't have much OS on my computer!


I sent a message to Pangolin, but maybe here somebody can help me too, so here's the copy/paste of the message...

Microsoft broke networking in Windows 7. (They've been breaking a lot of things lately...) Please contact us and we will send you an update which will solve any problems you are having in Windows 7.

Best regards,

William Benner

[ljk]

Bill,

Is this a a replacement or better solution to the "NetworkThrottlingIndex"=dword:FFFFFFFF in the windows 7 registry?

Thanks

LJ

[cyberb0b]

Bill,

Is this a a replacement or better solution to the "NetworkThrottlingIndex"=dword:FFFFFFFF in the windows 7 registry?

Thanks

LJ

I am not Bill of course
But i can tell you:

No, this is the same solution.

[sbk]

To let other people know, with the help of Bill and Bob, I finally got success having my QM2000.net board recognized by my Windows 7 (on Mac OS running Parallels Desktop) by completely deactivating the UAC control. Strange, but the second before doing this, the board still wasn't recognized, so I assume this was the solution...

Thanks!