I'm very happy with snow leopard, 4GB ram, thanks ;) (Damn i'm not using a = freakin iCrap, i'm using a computer. Yes that's my opinion about lion and m= ountain lion. My cousin has it and it makes me feel i'm using a giant ipad.= I don't like iPad.) I update Vbox everywhen I can because i hope the probl= em will be solved in this week/month release :/ (The only game I use on VBo= x is patrician III, Love it ;) it just don't want to work with wine, and th= erefore crossover) > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 05:46:19 -0700 > Subject: Re: [PIC] Pickit 2/3 and windows CE... possible? > From: tamas.rudnai@gmail.com > To: piclist@mit.edu >=20 > On 6 July 2012 00:34, Jacopo Monegato wrote: >=20 > > Anyway, I use virtualbox with the connection errors you mentioned. It's > > hard to use correctly any USB device. >=20 >=20 > I use the specific filter and was working like charm -- I hope there is > nothing to do with newer versions of Virtualbox as I have been upgraded > since last time tried. Will re test it next week when I finally will > receive all my stuff from Europe including my programmers and other tools= .. >=20 > Btw, how much ram do you have on the Mac? I have found out that 4G is way > too low for the Lion, especially if it comes to the virtualization -- > making everything running very very slow as it starts swapping. But I do > not use virtual device for gaming -- The only "game" I have is the RC > airplane simulator and for that I just simply reboot to the native XP wit= h > the Bootcamp. >=20 > Tamas >=20 >=20 >=20 > > I had to use a "any" filter because it wouldn't work with a pickit2/3 > > specific one. (I'm not the only one with this problem, there are a coup= le > > of topics in the virtualbox forum) What system do you emulate? I emulat= e XP > > because it does the thing i ask him and as far as i know needs less > > resources than seven, please correct me if i'm wrong. I used parallels = for > > a while and the usb switching is really well implemented but then decid= ed > > to switch to Vbox because 1) At least vbox is free 2) Parallel is way > > heavier than vbox, you don't have to use compressed vhdd etc to start u= p in > > decent times 3) The virtual graphic card in parallels is obscene. Belie= ve > > me, for gaming and mikroe software it's way better to use wine! and vbo= x, > > of course. > > > > Ah, the programming should work perfectly in parallels, i never had suc= h > > problems back then > > > > > Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:03:30 -0700 > > > Subject: Re: [PIC] Pickit 2/3 and windows CE... possible? > > > From: tamas.rudnai@gmail.com > > > To: piclist@mit.edu > > > > > > On 4 July 2012 09:05, Jacopo Monegato wrot= e: > > > > > > > I have here a "netbook" with a WM8505 CPU @300 MHz and windows CE6 > > onboard > > > > and i wondered if i could use it with the pickit and or picCMD and = or > > mplab > > > > and or others. > > > > > > > > > I am not sure if a non-x86 compatible CPU will ever run an applicatio= n > > > compiled to x86, so I would be surprised if that works for you. Can y= ou > > run > > > any other "normal" Windows apps on it? > > > > > > > > > > I hate using microchip products with my macbook, it's a real pain i= n > > the > > > > a-- (and virtualizing is not the best either, for me) they really m= ake > > me > > > > want to swith to AVR (Heresy! Heresy! ;)). So...... can somebody he= lp > > me > > > > please :)? > > > > > > > > > > Which virtualization did you try? I have quite good results with > > > VirtualBox, the only thing is that had to enable to automatically use= the > > > PicKit2 device on the virtual machine, otherwise there were weird > > > connection errors. I have also started to test Parallels as that one > > looks > > > really good with normal applications -- yet to see if programming and > > > debugging with PicKit2 is any good with that. Both of these has a > > "seemless > > > mode", where you may think that the Windows Application is running > > natively > > > on the Mac. Parallels is even doing that better by integrating all > > Windows > > > Apps onto the dock plus the spotlight and so on. > > > > > > Tamas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jacopo Monegato > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > > > View/change your membership options at > > > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; > > > printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", > > > q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } > > > -- > > > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > > View/change your membership options at > > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; > printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", > q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } > --=20 > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist =20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .