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I have been working on the Winebottled version last night, The new public beta of Mojave is throwing errors the standard version works, so Apple are doing something that messes up wine ATM, I will keep you all posted

I don’t run Control:Mac anymore as I don’t have Sooloos but doesn’t Control:PC work on Windows in a Virtualbox VM? It’s free.

I downloaded Crossover and IE 8, then via the IP address on my MC200 was able to download to my MacBook Pro a copy of Control:PC.

The installer is sitting on my MacBook but if I double click on it doesn't open Control:PC it just has a spinning wheel. What program did you use within Crossover to get it working?

Tried CrossOver Mac, it sort of works, Control:PC is kind of slow and clunky. It can't do Backup or Restore as it can't see the external drive connected to the Mac.

It's just a bandaid, not a real permanent solution.

Would it be possible to use Control:Mac on a Mac with older OS (YOSEMITE)?

The cast iron method for running Control:PC on a Mac is to partition your hard drive for running BootCamp.

Run a minimal Windows OS on BootCamp. Minimal cost and legitimate Windows product keys are easily available on eBay.

Yes. You can still run Control:Mac on a Apple laptop running a older version of OSX.

Thanks, this is what I was needing to know. Windows makes me nauseous.

I ordered a Windows laptop from Amazon just to run Control:PC. I sent it back the next day.
I will keep Control:Mac on a older MacBook Air until it dies or I just say the heck with it and run Roon on the whole house network. The two channel setup is all Roon now.

Still no joy Chris?

As a result of Meridian deserting Mac users, probably because Control:Mac would need to be rewritten as a 64-bit program to work on the next Mac OS - no 32-bit support anymore, I have had to try to use Control:PC.

I use VMware Fusion emulation, latest version is 11. This runs Windows 7 and has let me run the occasion program that does not have an equivalent on a Mac. I can find the Control:15 core in Windows on any browser by entering the address but need to import/export as well. I can download and run Control:PC but then I just get a screen saying that it is connecting and a wheel of death. I have erased and reloaded Control:PC several times without benefit. I do not know much about Windows, but have ensured that any virus program is turned off and that the firewall is down.

My system is a little black Mac Pro wired to a Cisco switch which is wired to the router. The Control:15 is also wired into the same switch. Just to see what happened, I did try the whole thing with a wireless Macbook Pro, with exactly the same results.

Although I do not have a touch screen, I even downloaded TouchPC from Meridian, and that also hangs while it tries to find the core. I don't really want to use Bootcamp (never have) because I think it makes me restart and choose which system to run, so that I cannot perform work in the Mac environment while using Control:PC. Also, I do not know whether that will work any better than the emulation program. Although I could be wrong about all that.

Needless to say, Control:Mac works perfectly for me for now.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

Ross

Some clarification required. Is it the former ‘waste paper bin’ design? Or, is it some other model.

Even so, my experience of emulation programs is that they don’t completely play nice with Meridian software as efficiently as one would like.

Reality is that BootCamp is the way to go. Sadly, that excludes simultaneously utilising Mac programs.

My opinion is that it’s time to abandon Sooloos for Roon.