Att. BTZS and Mac Users

[mikeryan]

For anyone running the new iMacs w/intel Apple just made available "Boot Camp" to run Windows XP NATIVELY on their Macs! Now we can use Win Plotter and such on our Macs. Here's info......

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/apr/05bootcamp.html

 

[Mike A]

I'm just getting into Phill Davis's system an was hoping for this, thanks Mike.

 

[philbed]

BTZS softwares are running under VirtualPC on Mac OSX. I use both of them almost daily.

 

[msage]

True, but with Boot Camp you don't have to buy VirtualPC. It will come with OSX next year.

Michael

 

[philbed]

Yes with all the viruses of the PC world. Nice game !

 

[dancqu]

Yes with all the viruses of the PC world. Nice game !

But then there is OS-X and all that APUG has to offer.
Not to forget Linux. I don't have any problems with my
old Windows ME. But then I've never updated. Dan

 

[mikeryan]

Yes with all the viruses of the PC world. Nice game !

I think you should do a little more reading and become a wee bit better informed before making these kinds of statements.

 

[chiller]

But then there is OS-X and all that APUG has to offer.
Not to forget Linux. I don't have any problems with my
old Windows ME. But then I've never updated. Dan

Hi Dan,

I'm a Linux user for the past 7 or so years and also use the BTZS software. Now under Wine I can run Winplotter with no problems but cannot get the Palm side of ExpoDev to work. [Pity really ] Like you I have an ME setup on a removeable hard drive which I use just for the palm transfers.

 

[Dan Henderson]

Does the phrase "jumping the shark" apply here? I love my iMac, with the stability of OSX, and I do not miss the blue screen with which I was so familiar with my old PC. I really just do not get why anyone who has used a Mac would be remotely interested in running Windows on it, but to each his own. To me its kind of like wearing a Honda jacket while riding one's Harley Davidson though.

 

[df cardwell]

BTZS is such a Windows approach to photography,
I wonder if anybody will make the leap.

PC/BTZS users flocking to Mac ?

Reminds me of Chicken Run,
"I don't WANT my freedom !"

.

 

[chiller]

BTZS is such a Windows approach to photography,
I wonder if anybody will make the leap.

PC/BTZS users flocking to Mac ?

Reminds me of Chicken Run,
"I don't WANT my freedom !"

.

BTZS is a wonderful way to free you from the relentless uncertainty of the zone system. It is programmed to run on Windows I would assume due to the fact that Windows is the major operating system by a long shot.

 

[mikeryan]

Does the phrase "jumping the shark" apply here? I love my iMac, with the stability of OSX, and I do not miss the blue screen with which I was so familiar with my old PC. I really just do not get why anyone who has used a Mac would be remotely interested in running Windows on it, but to each his own. To me its kind of like wearing a Honda jacket while riding one's Harley Davidson though.

Because of the BTZS program, that's why. To me, unlike the Honda analogy, I can have my cake and eat it too!

 

[Zathras]

Does the phrase "jumping the shark" apply here? I love my iMac, with the stability of OSX, and I do not miss the blue screen with which I was so familiar with my old PC. I really just do not get why anyone who has used a Mac would be remotely interested in running Windows on it, but to each his own. To me its kind of like wearing a Honda jacket while riding one's Harley Davidson though.

I have a real old version of the Plotter/Matcher software that I ran on Mac OS 7. I believe that Phil Davis wrote the first versions of the BTZS program for the original Macintosh computers. I have an old Mac II kicking around with BTZS loaded on it, waiting for the day that I replace my poor old dead densitometer.

 

[mikeryan]

Just got through loading Boot Camp and I must say looking at the film curves on a 20" iMac is a real treat. The part that is really nice is how snappy it is (the Win Plotter program) on the Mac. It is absolutely instantaneous. Really, really nice.