DCS upgrade hardware requirements

Radio Shack if you want a local store.

 

I'm not a mac user, but I know several mac users (I dasn't divulge their names for fear of retribution) who use DCS.  One of them may have a way to use a mac.  You might want to ask on the forum.

You can run Parallels or other Windows emulation utilities on the Mac and use the DCS loader utility.

 

Since Apple switched over to Intel processors the Mac will run windows natively you just need to create a Bootcap partition and install windows on it

Can you tell how ancient my Mac experience is Matt?

 

Yeah, but they haven't changed much. I used to be a diehard Windows guy until Vista, then I had to get a new computer and ought a Mac instead of vista and I couldn't be happier. I don't have all the options I had with Windows but I don't really need em. Everything I need to do my Apple products do extremely well

It isn't so ancient...

 

Parallels (which you recommended) continues to be updated and has significant advantages over the use of "Boot Camp". Both run Windows "natively", but Parallels allows you to switch between the Windows and MacOS environments "on the fly" whereas Boot Camp requires a reboot of the Mac to switch environments. Both require purchase of a copy of Windows, but Parallels requires the additional purchase (of course) of Parallels whereas "Boot Camp" is free and already installed on the Mac.

I know I remembered something negative about Boot Camp, maybe that was it.

I got everything I needed at Radio Shack with the exception of the Tripp-Lite by KeySpanUSB Serial Adapter.

 

If you are using a laptop then MTH recommends you purchase a KeySpan Tripp-Lite Model:USA-19HS USB Serial Adapter to connect from the laptop to the TIU. I got it on Amazon for around $20.00

As far as cheap laptops - Dell - on sale - $365.00 HP had one for $465.00 - I did not check the spec's. Mail order is the best or go the Best Buy.

I tried the it on a MAc and I am not that computer savvy as these folks - I just purchased the cheapest dell to run MTH uploads and RR-Tracks V5. Can be bothered with all the techno stuff my more than savvy forum members are talking about.

 

Simple is best plus a few hundred - peace of mind for me.

 

I did get a serial adapter at Radio Shack which works fine.  Brand was Gigaware, I believe.

 

GRJ, many men have negative memories about boot camp.

This Keyspan adapter worked perfectly to upgrade my Legacy system, but I was never able to make this adapter cable work with MTH's DCS loader program. Fortunately I had a Rev L TIU and once I found the correct USB cable the DCS loader worked perfectly that way. This was with the current 2.34 version loader.

 

I was doing all this with an old Windows 7 PC that had a ton of stuff loaded on it and a ton of it removed over several years of use. Could have been a conflict with something and the DCS program? However, the Keyspan adapter worked just fine with the Legacy system from the same PC, so I was never really sure what was wrong.

I am anxious to get my hands on Loader Program v5.0 so I can make sure it has no problem with my particular hardware and computer environment.

Pretty hard to believe if 3.34 works that they would have changed the loader's environment.

 

Beliefs are a product of experience.  I've seen a minor change hatch bugs.  I've gotten new versions of software that has problemswith OSs that in the past had worked fine.

 

An optimist can only be disappointed; a pessimist can only be pleasantly surprised.

             ---Auctor Incertus