EScribe works in Wineskin on Mac, but there are no Mac drivers. Evolv, please give us drivers!

[PinheadX]

So, last week I used Wineskin on the Mac to wrap Escribe up into a working Mac app and it seems to work as far as the functionality of the software. However, there is no communication with the chip in Mac OS X.

Pic proof: https://i.imgur.com/IEU9vMm.jpg

I believe if we just had drivers for the board, we could use this as a viable solution without having to run the software in a VM or install Windows (Bootcamp) on our machines.

Any chance of this happening?

[DannyK9]

Same issue I had software works in Wine but doesn't communicate. Ended up bootcamping

[PinheadX]

Yup. Bootcamp is a solution, but not necessarily the best one. I'd love to not have 30 gigs of HD space taken up just to run one program, when if there were drivers, it'd be more like 70MB.

[blueridgedog]

For me the best solution is VirtualBox for pre El Capitan or VM fusion for El Capitan.

[PinheadX]

The problem with VMs is if you're doing a firmware update and something interrupts the USB port, you can brick your chip. This would prevent that from being an issue.

[blueridgedog]

PinheadX said:

The problem with VMs is if you're doing a firmware update and something interrupts the USB port, you can brick your chip. This would prevent that from being an issue.

Brick sort of.  I have bricked mine twice with a paused firmware update.  Each time it was recoverable.  There are a few threads about the process, but the front loader portion of the chip has a fall back interface for recovery.

[teilo]

This is not a driver issue. It is a WINE issue. WINE does not support USB devices, with the rare exception of certain USB dongles.