dwcraig1 Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 That's the newest EScribe, and the newest firmware is 9-30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbennymi Posted February 13, 2016 Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 I thought the latest production firmware was 10-21-2015. And now I see the 2-12-2016 one in testing with some really nice new features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh Posted March 2, 2016 Report Share Posted March 2, 2016 blueridgedog said:Some mac users are getting inexpensive windows tablets as a solution. Personally I am just avoiding El Capitain for a bit. I put it on one test system and like it, but am in no hurry.This may be an old thread but I had to comment for the ridiculous wording... Buying a tablet is not a solution. The solution would be Evolv making software correctly, Microsoft Word or Evernote never said "screw other OS's". I accept it may take time, but you cannot use the word solution for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueridgedog Posted March 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 Personally at this point I need escrib rarely, so I don't object to using VirtualBox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aotimes4 Posted March 5, 2016 Report Share Posted March 5, 2016 I am anxiously awaiting a mac version. I have tried the VM solution and have had issues getting it to even connect. But besides that I use my primary laptop for work and need to have a decent amount of HDD space for graphics and stuff. And since I have a machine with a modest SSD I can't always keep the large files around that I would need to run Windows on a Mac. Come on Evolv! We still love you!!!! Help out your OS X brothers and sisters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammbone10 Posted March 8, 2016 Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 well it seems the competition has beat u to it evolve mac versions being offered for most all other products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueridgedog Posted March 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2016 Hammbone10 said:well it seems the competition has beat u to it evolve mac versions being offered for most all other products In what way?Unrelated, but slightly, I am more interested in a platform independent solution that can be run on OSX, Windows, IOS, Android etc than another silo solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayneo Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 blueridgedog said:.... I am more interested in a platform independent solution that can be run on OSX, Windows, IOS, Android etc than another silo solution. With all respect, escribe needs drivers and a connection to plug into. So you'd think it's worthwhile to invest in mobile OS's such as IOS where you can't make a connection to a phone or ipad, or android, same thing? Uploads/downloads.I think the closest thing to satisfy your platform independence would be an html5 browser based solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etchie Posted March 10, 2016 Report Share Posted March 10, 2016 Has Evolve ever said anything about making the program Mac compatible in the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueridgedog Posted March 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2016 Wayneo said:escribe needs drivers and a connection to plug intoRight...platform independence will require additional changes, specifically a non-plug access method (bluetooth, wifi etc). As long as we have to have a cord, I am ok with a window product as I already need a desktop or laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teilo Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 To those of you who presume that it is a simple matter to port EScribe to Mac - it's not.It is very common for hardware devices to lack Mac support for the simple reason that there are a great number of USB communication chipsets that have no Mac driver. It requires a completely different set of programming skills to write OS drivers - and in order to do so, you must have sufficient documentation of the chipset's low-level interfaces. Chipset manufacturers release SDKs to create drivers for specific applications. Evolve did not design their own USB chipset. They did what all hardware manufacturers do. They used an existing chipset, which provided a Windows SDK to create said driver. Lacking a Mac SDK for said chipset, Evolv is powerless to port their driver to Mac.Furthermore, if their software is written in C++ as is the majority of Windows software (save for the .NET family), this presents a whole new set of challenges. It would require nearly a complete rewrite of the platform, and a different set of programming skills. ObjectiveC and Swift development is quite a different beast than Windows C++.Could they do it? Were the driver problems resolved, something that would require the support of the USB chipset manufacturer, yes, they certainly could eventually. Should they divert their development efforts away from Windows to do this? It is likely an economically foolish decision to do so.I speak as a Mac user, a developer, and the head of a development team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueridgedog Posted March 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2016 I have principally been a Linux user and developer, turned Mac user for the past five years due to its BSD kernel and great window manager (all my Linux tools work and I get a well developed graphical environment). Granted I run OSX on my own hardware so I have liberties that folks that run OSX on Apple hardware do not. Coming from Linux it is a trivial issue to take a given program and back into a way to execute it on my operating system. This thread is basically about how to get what you need out of Escribe using other operating systems and I do see that there is room for some advocacy for a native version. In all honesty I don't see that need as much as others as I really don't need to run Escribe in a regular basis (once or twice when a new mod is acquired and then rarely based on firmware updates).Escribe is really amazing and I get all the use out of it that I need running OSX and am happy to see development cycles going to advancing the chip vs parallel software development. In the long run this type of software is trending towards mobile interfaces regardless (my kids and millennials in general assume that they can use their phone for everything). The recent update also removes some of the need for Escribe in that the base materials that are likely to be needed are shipped with the board and the user can access them without a computer of any kind - which should suit the majority of vapers in that they want to buy and use a device much like one would a blender or other appliance and really don't have the geeky curiosity that would be satisfied with Escribe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaTwo4 Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 I have NEVER used VirtualBox before and I followed every single step exactly as posted and got eScribe working great on my 2010 MacBook Pro!!! Thank you VERY much!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueridgedog Posted April 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Bravo for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 just tried to do this with win7 guest and yosemite with newest version of virtualbox (5.0.20). got a "not responding" during firmware update. lost ability to power on the psyclone evo. found the usb in hardware profile. somehow the product ID changed. tried to set the product ID and serial in virtualbox, however osx grabs it before virtualbox could so it stays greyed out no matter what. copied the vm to my fedora box host, set the product id , vendor id, serial and windows guest immediately recognized it and i was able to finish updating the firmware and it worked no problem.after this happened to me, i noticed a bunch of people said it happened to them. Maybe there should be some kind of warning in big caps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueridgedog Posted May 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 I have stopped doing updates via Virtualbox for that reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dstroya Posted June 25, 2016 Report Share Posted June 25, 2016 *crickets* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwcraig1 Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 I see a lot of folks wanting to use EScribe with a Mac but I don't think I have ever seen anyone mention for example running Win XP on a Mac with boot camp. There are some really small instanances of XP out there. Just saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueridgedog Posted June 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2016 Bootcamp works fine as you are running Windows natively. I am going to put a windows partition on my next Mac, but don't have a burning need to do it now, especially since the new mac pros will be out around September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dstroya Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 Or maybe the best vaping chip on the market could support the best operating system. I avoid microsoft products and don't want it installed and taking up space on my mac just to tweak my mod... I think we've waited long enough, they're not even updating describe anymore. Months ago we were given the excuse that evolve was moving but that has long passed and still nothing. We DNA 200 owners now have to see that the SS regulation is much better on a DNA 75 and they don't even give us a firmware upgrade. Maybe they should leave the law suites alone and focus on their customers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
testosterone325 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 dstroya said:Or maybe the best vaping chip on the market could support the best operating system. I avoid microsoft products and don't want it installed and taking up space on my mac just to tweak my mod... I think we've waited long enough, they're not even updating describe anymore. Months ago we were given the excuse that evolve was moving but that has long passed and still nothing. We DNA 200 owners now have to see that the SS regulation is much better on a DNA 75 and they don't even give us a firmware upgrade. Maybe they should leave the law suites alone and focus on their customers...Valid points.If Evolv had no plans whatsoever to release a Mac version of escribe, or they could not do it for whatever reasons, I would be totally fine with that and I'll keep using VirtualBox. Its the fact that they told us they were planning on doing it months and months ago. I would rather just know whats going on straight up rather than waiting and hoping. Unless they have said they aren't releasing it and I missed that info. As for escribe updates, I've been wondering whats going on too as its been a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillW50 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 Doesn't Apple demand a cut of the profits for anything that is Mac compatible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayneo Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 BillW50 said:Doesn't Apple demand a cut of the profits for anything that is Mac compatible?Definitely no. Not for a free item anywhere.However, if it's a 'purchased' item from either of their software stores, then yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retird Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 I thought Apple had to approve the software tho....?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayneo Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 retird said:I thought Apple had to approve the software tho....?? Only if it's advertised/distrinuted by them in their online stores, where they are vetted and approved by Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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