MDcatV

This season will be my 1st without a coach in a few seasons, tightening up the purse strings in the MDcatV family finance department. I have an iMac, new last year.

Can someone tell me in a way that a 6 year old would understand, exactly what I need hardware and software and whatever a parallel is etc., to run WKO+ on it? Keep in mind that I'm very simple when it comes to such things. Please dont suggest that I buy a laptop or cheap PC, I'm not going that route. One computer at the MDcatV ranch is enough.

Thanks in advance.

ericm979

What you need is what is called "virtulization software". Basically, it's a program that runs on the Mac ("native OS") and lets your run another operating system ("hosted" OS) inside it.

Inside the virtulization software, you install and run Windows. Then you install WKO+ there.

So if your computer is off and you want to download data off your powertap, you first boot MacOS, then start parallells or VMware, then start Windows inside that, then fire up WKO+. It's kind of a pain but you only have to have one computer.

Normally all the Windows files will be stored on the Mac (or Linux box in my case) in a way that means that you can't get at them from the native OS. With a bit of simple configuration you can set up a network file system on the native side and have the Windows side put the WKO+ data files there. That's so you can back them up- very important.

But at least on my system that's slow, especially since WKO+ insists on re-reading all the data files frequently. A better way to do it is to save them on a native file system and set up a periodic job to copy them to the shared filesystem. This makes WKO+ much faster. I use "Karen's Replicator" which is probably the best written piece of Windows software I have ever seen.

I don't know what a copy of Windows costs (I had one already) and VMware's about $100 or so. A cheap used laptop may be cost effective.

92degrees

VMware Fusion. Easy. Stable.

currand

In the interest of making a 6 year old understand it.

Buy this: https://www.parallels.com/landingpage...FRJ4xgod32jc5g

and this: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/

Follow the directions to install the latter on the former. After that when you start Parallels it will just look like windows. Then.

Buy this: https://www.cyclingpeakssoftware.com/

Should be good to go.

El Diablo Rojo

If it's new last year you must have an intel mac. If that's the case and you are running Leopard then you have bootcamp. You can then run Windows on your mac and install WKO+. This is what I did on my macbook pro. It's easy to do, and bootcamp will run you through the process.

aicabsolut

Parallels is a good product. It's better than doing an actual partition of your HD with Windows, because then you're opening up the whole Windows virus (and Windows updates) can of worms that Mac users don't like. Do a virtual partition like Parallels. It's also a lot faster than doing a dual boot.

aicabsolut

You can with some products. Like if you use Parallels Desktop, you can get at your VM files through your usual file system. At least I think I got the product right. I did a bit of work for several of the company's products last year. There are definitely some user-friendly ways to blend all of your VM files and programs into your desktop such that they all look like they're part of your native system.

kukusz

I'm running VMWare Fusion and Windows XP with WKO+, no problem. You can use almost any copy of Windows XP, like an old Dell installation CD or anything.

It's not completely painless, but it works well enough.

CEE

Sorry to bring up such an old thread. For those using WKO+ on a Mac via VMware or other virtual software, what port are you using to DL your PT data? I keep getting errors.