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now then, i'm a Mac fiend, and for the past 6 years i've been using a 600mhz G3 imac with 256ram. its a good little work horse and handles my video production just fine, even if rendering takes forever.....

anyway, i need a new computer, and just cant afford a decent mac, so i'm thinking of getting a Dell laptop and running Mac OSx86 on it, but does any one know if the arduino software will be supported?

many thanks,


bod.

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The Arduino software is itself written in Java, and so should work on any platform which supports it (which should include Mac OS X on whatever chip).  To compile your sketches, however, it uses avr-gcc and to upload them it uses uisp, two open source tools written in C.  I would imagine that they will support Mac OS X on the x86 (as they seem to support a wide variety of platforms), but I don't know for sure.  In any case, it may take some extra tweaking to get everything working.

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Hej,

it would be really great to see Arduino running on a PC-hacked-with-MAC machine. Are you going to try it out?

/David

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cheers mellis! i reconded it would be fine since its java based, but i thought i'd double check!

i wont be getting my new laptop for a month or two yet david, but i will be installing os x86 on an old pc to see what software issues i get with the rest of my programs, so i'll try installing arduino and see if it works, even if i can just get the ide up and running for the time being i'd be happy.

i'll report back if/when i get anywhere with it. though i may need some help with this, so get yer thinking hats on....


cheers,

bod.