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  • Running Diamond Cut Software on a Mac

    The topic question comes up fairly often. Here is a re-post from our German Distributor (dBS) on that topic:

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    Running Diamond Cut on a Mac is pretty simple, nowadays.

    What you will need:

    1) A Mac Computer with and Intel CPU.
    (All Macs of the past 8+ years come with Intel CPU.)

    2) A virtual machine running Windows.
    There are commercial and free solutions. Commercial solutions: Parallels
    Desktop for Mac or VMWare. Free solution: Virtual Box.

    3) Windows.
    For example Windows 7, either as 32 or 64 bits version is just fine.
    Since all actual Macs are based on actual Intel hardware no additional
    drivers are needed. All will come as part of Windows 7.

    4) DC 8.5 or DCForensics10, of course.

    Parallels Desktop is quite popular and very fast. It offers a so called
    "coherent mode" which hides Windows completely away. When you start DC8
    Parallels will start Windows once in the background and keep it out of
    sight. What you will see is DC 8 alone, running in a Mac window and
    completely transparent to the Mac user.

    Virtual Box offers a similar mode, but I have forgotten, how they name it.

    You can even place the DC8 icon in the "Dock" of Mac OS. The dock is the
    dashboard where users can have their preferred applications and start
    them from there by clicking on the icons.


    That´s really all.

    My configuration is:
    iMac from 2008, Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Windows 7 Home Premium 64
    bits and DC 8.20 German. Not the latest stuff, but it works just fine.

    If you have questions, I will try to answer. I am not a Mac guru
    however, just a very basic Mac user.

    Konstantin / Digital Broadcast Systems, GMBH (http://www.diamondcut.de/)

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    Last edited by Craig Maier; 06-19-2016, 05:37 PM.
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    One thing to keep in mind is that you actually need a licensed copy of Windows to do this. You'll have to activate Windows just like you do installing it directly on a computer, and that requires a license key.
    John

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    • #3
      Yes, that is true. Thanks for that clarification.

      Craig
      "Who put orange juice in my orange juice?" - - - William Claude Dukenfield

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