Can Lionel's LSU firmware be installed on an Apple laptop?
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Not natively. Use something like Parallels to run a Windows OS instance if your Mac supports it.
https://ogrforum.com/...utility-v2-0-and-mac
You probably mean "Software" and not "Firmware". If it were possible at all, installing Legacy firmware on an Apple computer would transform that computer into a locomotive.
Although we frequently see many things that are magical here on this forum that would be something truly awe inspiring.
Instead, I believe that you're really talking about the LSU (Legacy System Utility) Software.
LSU isn't written to be run on an Apple directly, but as Vernon has pointed out if you use Windows emulation on your Apple machine you may be able to do so.
The issue is whether you have a serial port available (hardware) and the iOS-based Windows emulator correctly supports it; or alternatively, if you're going to use a USB to Serial converter cable (also hardware) in its place, and the iOS-based Windows emulator correctly supports that.
Is there an Apple die-hard out there who's gotten either of these to work and can report on it?
Mike
I am an apple die hard and would rather go without than put anything windows on any of my devices
Apple computers became Windows machines many years ago. When Apple stop using their own proprietary CPUs and went to a Windows motherboard the mystique was over. The difference between an Apple and a Windows machine is very simple. If you want bang for the buck and something that will run software basically forever you go with a Windows machine if you want a computer that will cost you a lot of money, and every operating system update you need to buy new software you buy an apple machine?
@ThatGuy posted:Apple computers became Windows machines many years ago. When Apple stop using their own proprietary CPUs and went to a Windows motherboard the mystique was over. The difference between an Apple and a Windows machine is very simple. If you want bang for the buck and something that will run software basically forever you go with a Windows machine ...
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So now that they are running the M series chips, what are they?
Besides the user experience is about the OS, not the hardware. An AMD windows machine is the same as an intel to the user. I'll take MacOS any day over anything Microsoft ever has put out.. well DOS had some good points.
Just to keep this train related. Mechanically all the parts in our trains are the petty much the same. It's the trains OS's that we all enjoy and whose software designers give us the coll stuff we all talk about.
@cbojanower posted:Hahahaha
So now that they are running the M series chips, what are they?
Besides the user experience is about the OS, not the hardware. An AMD windows machine is the same as an intel to the user. I'll take MacOS any day over anything Microsoft ever has put out.. well DOS had some good points.
Just to keep this train related. Mechanically all the parts in our trains are the petty much the same. It's the trains OS's that we all enjoy and whose software designers give us the coll stuff we all talk about.
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