New here, so id better start contributing. Here at the shop I picked up a new digital oscilloscope as a counter part to our tektronix 2215A’s, the DOS allows us to post better resolution screen captures and readouts for the blog interface \/
One of the DOS we picked up was the fairy popular Rigol DS1052E 50MHz/1GSa/a dual channel oscilloscope. many blogs and sites have mentioned the various…possibilities with these Rigol. After talking with a representative about the integrated GUI program SuperScope we were informed it would operate on OS X. Here at Hallo-Fi we just have OS X on a few MacBooks (i just love the unibody series)
Well the SuperScope program to my surprise is not compatible with OS X environments. So I had to do a little digging and made a dual boot option. The most effective approach to this I’ve learned is BootCamp utilities. By using a jump drive for a temporary VM you are able to partition an external or congruent hard drive into a Windows and OS X machine. This is only available I believe in Intel based Apples, also note that 2009 macbook and under cannot use jump drive and disk image as a VM host, the work around is simply mounting the image of your windows onto a DVD and going from there. and make sure you back up your data before ANY partitioning.
There are many walk throughs available online, including from apple here;
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205016
BootCamp (heavy) PDF walk through;
https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1519/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
The integration was pretty seamless and I can now save real time screen capture/wave data and telemetric directly to a drive for the blog to host. Another neat feature is the Remote GUI access to the scope from the SuperScope program. I can be at the computer desk with my calculators and data and monitor from there and make minute adjustments. so far so good….
One of the DOS we picked up was the fairy popular Rigol DS1052E 50MHz/1GSa/a dual channel oscilloscope. many blogs and sites have mentioned the various…possibilities with these Rigol. After talking with a representative about the integrated GUI program SuperScope we were informed it would operate on OS X. Here at Hallo-Fi we just have OS X on a few MacBooks (i just love the unibody series)
Well the SuperScope program to my surprise is not compatible with OS X environments. So I had to do a little digging and made a dual boot option. The most effective approach to this I’ve learned is BootCamp utilities. By using a jump drive for a temporary VM you are able to partition an external or congruent hard drive into a Windows and OS X machine. This is only available I believe in Intel based Apples, also note that 2009 macbook and under cannot use jump drive and disk image as a VM host, the work around is simply mounting the image of your windows onto a DVD and going from there. and make sure you back up your data before ANY partitioning.
partitioned OSX/Windows 7 on our macbooks
There are many walk throughs available online, including from apple here;
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205016
BootCamp (heavy) PDF walk through;
https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1519/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf
The integration was pretty seamless and I can now save real time screen capture/wave data and telemetric directly to a drive for the blog to host. Another neat feature is the Remote GUI access to the scope from the SuperScope program. I can be at the computer desk with my calculators and data and monitor from there and make minute adjustments. so far so good….
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If your calendar this is glued at the year 2005? My is showing 2016.
Therefore I can not feel any excitement about outdated test equipment.
Highlighting my experience but hey, great first impression ill make to posts often...
Yes, Bootcamp requires an Intel Mac. It can be installed on your main drive, no need for a USB disk or a DVD.
I have XP installed on my MacPro where it is soley used to run S+L WooferTester 2. I find it a pain to have to reboot to get at Windows.
Have you tried your DOS in one of the Virtualizers (Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox (that last free))?
dave
I found and others me tilned ln the apple forums anything after 2009 required the disk as tried on our or disk image, at least for windows 7 which is what i installed.
Parallel seemed interesting literally seamless guis right? All i have to do is hold optiom durong boot up and can select the sequence of os, but yea i do have to restart
Parallel seemed interesting literally seamless guis right? All i have to do is hold optiom durong boot up and can select the sequence of os, but yea i do have to restart
looked into virtual box and it is free. Id probably be inclined to use a VM switching like that if I had a lot of windows only software, luckily its just the Rigol software and the curve tracing mapper from Peak Atlas we use. I thinks parallels just reduced their price as well
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
I believe another route would have been to try a Linux or open source option
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
I believe another route would have been to try a Linux or open source option
I am running VMware Fusion on my OSX and while it is great for everyday local tasks, I find it hit and miss when it comes to running peripheral devices that need drivers. I guess it become too confusing for the Windows. I find Bootcamp to be rock solid, and very good when peripheral devices are needed. Reboot with SSD drives should not be an issue, but the bigger issue in some situations might be not being able to use Mac while in Boot Camp. If that is not an issue, I would strongly suggest Boot Camp vs Virtual Machine.
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