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Wellon universal device programmers & Macs?

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Paul Conners

Jan 1, 1970
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The Chinese universal device programmers by Wellon available on e-Pain are
designed for Windows OS only.

I have installed the software on a Mac under OS X 10.5 using the CrossOver
implementation of Wine, and it seems to run. That's the easy part. Of course,
it's not communicating with programmer, and that's the source of my question.
I don't want to spend the $$ until I can be assured it will work.

Has anyone installed one of the Wellon USB programers on a Mac? Does it work?
What virtualization implementation did you use: Parallels Desktop? VMWare
Fusion? Wine (i.e., Crossover)? Was any modification or additional install
required?

The only way to know for sure is to buy one, say a prayer, and plug it in.
I'm hoping someone has done this already.

Thanks.
 
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Tim Streater

Jan 1, 1970
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Nico Coesel

Jan 1, 1970
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Paul Conners said:
The Chinese universal device programmers by Wellon available on e-Pain are
designed for Windows OS only.

I have installed the software on a Mac under OS X 10.5 using the CrossOver
implementation of Wine, and it seems to run. That's the easy part. Of course,
it's not communicating with programmer, and that's the source of my question.
I don't want to spend the $$ until I can be assured it will work.

Has anyone installed one of the Wellon USB programers on a Mac? Does it work?
What virtualization implementation did you use: Parallels Desktop? VMWare
Fusion? Wine (i.e., Crossover)? Was any modification or additional install
required?

I'd go for a virtual machine (VMWare). I tried Wine for Linux but it
only works for populair applications. I doubt Wine will ever be able
to get it right.
 
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Michael Vilain

Jan 1, 1970
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Tim Streater said:
Oddly enough I've just become interested in how to program EPROMs under
OS X. Sadly, so far I don't know the answer either in this or the
general case.

A friend has programmed eeproms for his Porche's fuel injection system
(there is a 'turbo' version that performs better than the factory
fuel-stingy version). There wasn't a way he could get the eeprom burner
he has to run on MacOS, so he used Fusion. Seemed to work OK. No, I
don't know what the burner or software was.

I think you'll probably have to use BootCamp to get this to work and
that won't cost you anything but the $140 or so for Windows 7 Pro. Not
worth it? Then borrow a PC.
 
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Tim Streater

Jan 1, 1970
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Michael Vilain said:
A friend has programmed eeproms for his Porche's fuel injection system
(there is a 'turbo' version that performs better than the factory
fuel-stingy version). There wasn't a way he could get the eeprom burner
he has to run on MacOS, so he used Fusion. Seemed to work OK. No, I
don't know what the burner or software was.

I think you'll probably have to use BootCamp to get this to work and
that won't cost you anything but the $140 or so for Windows 7 Pro. Not
worth it?
No.

Then borrow a PC.

That'll prolly be what I'll do.
 
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