[Virtualacorn-list] VirtualRPC for the Mac - MacPop beta release 1

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

In message of 12 Sep, ATimbrell at aol.com wrote:

> Instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing this afternoon
> I have knocked up an application called !MacPop. This is designed
> to make it much easier to handle external memory devices from
> inside VirtualRPC when running natively on Mac OS X.
> 
> You can  download a copy from the Mac Downloads page of the
> main VirtualAcorn  website:
> 
> http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/dloadpage/varpcmac.htm
> 
> Can  everyone (with a VRPC for the Mac) please give this a try and
> let me have some feedback (either positive or negative). 
>  
> Please note that this is beta quality so at the moment I can't
> guarantee that it will work under all circumstances, but I've only
> spent 3 hours on it so far and it works for me.

Yes and it works here too and a very nice utility it is.

It immediately brought up both (a) the large backup disk linked by
Firewire to the Mac and (b) a 2G USB stick plugged directly into the
Mac.

Somehow I need to integrate Mimemap with it but I can have a look at
that later.

I am not sure what it is supposed to do but storage devices made me
wonder if it would do anything with the scanner that is plugged into the
Mac by USB.  I have Imagemaster (sorry DPlngScan) and the Twain program
that I previously used on a Iyonix for scanning but they do not see the
scanner.  The scanner works on the Mac, though.  The Mac scanner program
is not currently running so it has not grabbed the device.

Perhaps I was hoping for too much!

Many thanks for this program: it is excellent news.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim at powys.org
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