FlexColor and Mojave

[drmoss_ca]

Notice to early adopters: FlexColor will run on macOS Mojave, after you dismiss the one-time 32-bit warning. Getting the scanner (an X1) recognised took a few pluggings-in and restarts of the app, and to physically connect it I used a Firewire 400 > Firewire 800 adapting cable, topped with a FW800>Thunderbolt dongle, followed by a Thunderbolt to USB-C dongle. Only one of my Macs is young enough to allow the upgrade to 10.14/Mojave, so the others can still be used either with the FW cable or the cable plus the first dongle, and if I outlast them, I can fudge it to the USB-C ports of my current MacBook Pro as long as I either keep it at 10.14 or Hasselblad comes up with 64-bit software.

 

[MikeSeb]

Unfortunately, I've been in touch with Hasselblad. They have no plans to update Flexcolor to 64-bit, so MacOS 10.15 and beyond won't support it. Ditto LaserSoft (SilverFast). Haven't asked the VueScan guy.

Any ideas?

 

[PhilBurton]

Unfortunately, I've been in touch with Hasselblad. They have no plans to update Flexcolor to 64-bit, so MacOS 10.15 and beyond won't support it. Ditto LaserSoft (SilverFast). Haven't asked the VueScan guy.

Any ideas?

Get a Windows machine!

 

[MikeSeb]

Get a Windows machine!

Too horrifying to contemplate....

But if one were to do such a perverse thing, will the latest Windows operating system run the latest Flexcolor?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Get a Windows machine!

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[bdial]

Most of my Windows computers are virtual systems that run on my Mac, using Vmware Fusion. You can configure the virtual system to run pretty much any Windows release, or MacOS (or Linux), USB devices can be linked either to the host Mac, or a virtual system. You do need a host Mac with plenty of memory and processor HP though.

 

[brbo]

That information is totally irrelevant since no Flextight scanner comes with USB and no virtualization software supports Firewire pass-through (and, no, Firewire-to-Thunderbolt-to-USB-C won't work in virtual machines since that doesn't make the Firewire device to behave like an USB one).