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Can this be done on a MAC?


jckkid103

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Does Light-O-Rama software work on an Apple computer? 

Kinda... but with some help. 

We have to use some very low level device drivers to communicate between the computer and the various types of controllers available. The Windows environment allows us to do this relatively easily... not so much in the Apple world. 

The easiest solution might be Apple's Boot Camp.  See more at https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

Other of our Apple users use their Mac in a Windows environment via Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/) or VMWare Fusion (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/) 

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i use a mac, and run windows on bootcamp.  bootcamp comes with your mac already installed.  you just have to buy a windows disk, i use windows 7 for mine. got it on amazon for like $35.

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alternatively you could do all your sequencing and control your LOR products from a program called xLights, they ave a native Mac version

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Like others have said you can use a virtual machine which seems to be the easiest option. In my case (I live in an Apple world) I just added an extra SSD in my hackintosh so I can daul boot into Windows for the light season. This is my first year attempting this so fingers crossed.

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