gnupic: Re: [gnupic] RE: Pickit 2 under MacOS X and other platform
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Re: [gnupic] RE: Pickit 2 under MacOS X and other platform
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23 Nov 2005 15:43:30 +0000
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I've got a couple of MACs. I should try this.
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> From: Chen Xiao Fan ####@####.####
> Date: 2005/11/22 Tue PM 10:01:43 EST
> To: ####@####.#### ####@####.####
> Subject: [gnupic] RE: Pickit 2 under MacOS X and other platform
>
> First report of pk2 under MacOS X. So pk2 is now
> working on Linux/Windows/MacOS X.
>
> Just wondering if any MacOS X user who have ported
> pyk (Python based). It is said that the BITPIM libusb
> Python wrapper is working under MacOS X. Therefore
> I think pyk should also work under MacOS X in theory.
>
> Regards,
> Xiaofan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ####@####.####
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:36 AM
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: pk2 for Mac OSX
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> Benjamin Brooking has ported pk2 v1.34 and the original
> usb_pickit to run on Mac OSX.
>
> Zip files can be downloaded from his web site at
> http://www.1710.co.uk/picosx.
>
> Thanks Benjamin!
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chen Xiao Fan
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:52 AM
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: Pickit 2 under MacOS X and other platform
>
> Microchip has done a MacOS X port of PICkit 1 application
> for MacOS X. It is not using libusb but using the Mac OS
> X APIs. Theoretically this could be port to Mac OS X
> pretty fast as well but they have not done it.
>
> Orion's usb_pickit (for PICKit 1) works under Mac OS X as
> well. It is using libusb. I guess Mark's pyk and Jeff's pk2
> should work under Mac OS X as well since both are
> based on libusb as well. Both applications now work
> under Linux and Windows.
>
> The developers inside Microchip also hack the original
> usb_pickit code (by Orion) to work on a Zarus Linux PDA
> with USB host function.
>
> There is no libusb-win32 for Pocket PC platform yet.
>
> Just wondering if any Mac OS X users also interested
> in getting PICkit 2 working under Mac.
>
> Regards,
> Xiaofan
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