![]() I picked two examples of the FAST software to illustrate that everything was working as you would expect on a PC. The second to last video concludes with opening a table and the throttle follower graph. This video, taken with an iPhone, doesn?t provide a very clear image of the MacBook display, but it is sufficient to see the FAST Sportsman software running and the dashboard window. This was the time while the following video was taken showing the engine running and physical connection of the Sportsman ECU with MacBook Pro: You will notice a period of time when only the dashboard is displaying the current engine conditions. Here is a YouTube video showing the screen activity while the engine is running. The FAST software also works just fine while the engine is running. Note that you only need to make the hack to connect to the USB port once (so long as you always plug the Sportsman into the same port on the Mac.) Below is a link to a YouTube video showing my Mac connecting to the Sportsman ECU and uploading the tuning program. With this information, The dealer sent me a revised tuning program. ![]() Having solved my connection problems, I was able to download the tuning program so that my Sportsman dealer could review it along with the logs that had been taken earlier. Below is the terminal window with the commands I used (mistakes and all:) Following the instructions given on the Crossover website I was able to establish a connection between my Sportsman and my Mac. The solution was to be found on the Crossover website although it is a bit of a hack:Ĭonnecting to USB devices isn?t officially supported by Crossover, but there is a trick that takes advantage that OS X is based on UNIX, and in UNIX, even devices have a location in the file system. Otherwise, the FAST software looks exactly as it does on Windows, even if it is running on a Macintosh.Īfter succeeding to launch FAST software, I ran into problem trying to connect to the Sportsman engine control unit or ECU. Here is a YouTube screen video showing this process in operation:Īs you can see, Crossover is intelligent enough to redirect the request for the help documentation in the FAST software to the default browser on the Mac: Safari. First launch the Crossover environment and then launch the FAST software from the display window. Once installed, launching FAST software is a two-step process. I was able to launch to different software packages from the manufacturer of my wagon?s electronic fuel injection system: FAST (Fuel Air Spark Technology). ![]() You can then follow the Crossover procedure to install the software. Crossover provides an environment where you can install and run Windows applications as if they were Mac applications.Īfter installing Crossover, you can download any of the FAST software from the website. There is a commercial product based on WINE that has a nice user-interface. It is possible to use software directly from the WINE project, but it is difficult to use. So this seemed like a good opportunity to see if the WINE framework could run such software directly on the Mac. So I really needed a way to access the fuel injection system and the only software available was for Windows. With those logs, the dealer where I bought the system would modify the tuning ?program? as part of the purchase price of the system. The latest electronic fuel injection upgrade on my trusty 1965 Buick Special wagon included software that can be used to adjust the system and log how the engine is performing. ![]() There is an alternative way to run Windows software on a Mac that is based on an open-source project called WINE which originally stood for: "Wine Is Not an Emulator.? According to the WINE website: ?Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.? Since I?ve been using Macs since 1988 and have never owned a copy of Windows in my life, this isn?t my preferred choice. Each of these products have their pluses and minuses, but for me they share one weakness: they require installing a copy of the Windows operating system. Today there are at least 3 different ways to run the Windows operating system on a Mac: Apple's boot camp software, Parallels,and VMware Fusion. It became much easier to run Windows software when Apple switched to Intel processors in their Macs. We are lucky enough to be observing a great revival of the Mac, but even so there is a lot of software that is written for Windows.
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