Responding to some number of comments in this and closely related threads, not just this particular poster.
1) A reminder that PLAIN N1MM is NO LONGER SUPPORTED, for two years now. Shouting intended. N1MM+ is the current and supported version. Any problem you have with the old MM, the first step is to upgrade to the latest N1MM+. Plus you will open yourself up to a small pile of neat new features. Any problem with MM+, the first step is to upgrade to the latest MM+. Still problems? Go to their excellent support reflector, where there are many patient and informed members who have zero problems helping steer a newby or an unfortunate victim to a successful launch. With a little practice and reading, the MM+ doc will become your best friend. Many, many, many hours have been spent to create that excellent doc. If someone does not answer your reflector post in ten minutes, remember that everything is volunteer, no paid staff. Leave yourself generous run up time before a contest to allow conversations to run a cycle per evening. If not, those who will finally answer you are most likely not reading email at that particular instant, most likely already making contacts in the contest you are trying to start late and unprepared. 2) AGAIN, N1MM+ is FREE, NOT COMMERCIAL. Shouting intended. The team of developers et al putting out MM+ **donate** their time and effort, and have managed to create a stellar **non-commercial** product. They have stated that to create a parallel product for Mac platforms is beyond their intentions and resources. Having had a few conversations, that really does seem a fair and intelligent decision. For them, to keep from wasting precious volunteer resources on keeping up with OS perturbations not related to the product, their development platform and single chosen OS need to be as stable as possibly can be. They do seem open to a tweak here and there for problems served up **completely analyzed and solved** in the run-it-on-a-windows-emulator world. I worked for SAS Institute for 20 years, where SAS' various products simultaneously supported IBM mainframes, traditional UNIX platforms, PC operating systems, Windows, for a while OS-2, and various PC versions of UNIX. For those two decades, I worked in the mainframe section of that effort. Maintaining that dozen OS parallelism was an **enormous** task, **grotesquely** complicated, never-endingly rocked by perturbations, revisions and screw-ups from OS and driver programmers, soaking up hundreds of employees (really, hundreds), some thirty-odd of them requiring a peculiar necessarily company-grown skill set that was impossible to hire for off the open programmer market. Never allow yourself to perceive difficulty or delay on, or refusal of, multi-platform support as some dereliction. There, especially for free volunteer efforts, until you have worked a mile in their shoes, you are simply not qualified to give criticism. 3) Even compared to many commercial products, N1MM+ is remarkably responsive in general, particularly in keeping up with changes in the contesting arena. They even developed a way for the USER to create a contest script which the logger will run, allowing many tiny contests, like our annual rules-revised-yet-again PVRC on-the-air reunion, to roll their own. 4) DO JOIN THE MM REFLECTOR. It is a great bunch over there. Many of us there have worked through all the same newby confusions. We get it, we understand, we have ourselves suffered total confusion, and we will help ease you into the RTFM :>) What is politely tolerated and supported OT on Elecraft (thank you Eric) is the main drag on MM. There are **many** Elecraft owners on the MM reflector. You will find call signs common to both Elecraft and the MM reflector. ALSO, it might just be that you are the first to separate out a bug, and if you do not post there, it remains hidden to the only group who **can** and **do want** to actually fix it. They are **not** scanning the Elecraft reflector for MM+ bugs. 73, Guy K2AV On Saturday, July 9, 2016, Dauer, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately it is still not available for Mac, and the developers seem > hesitant about using a Windows emulator on an Apple computer. Below is a > clip taken from the N1MM + website today. Does anyone have any more > current info? > > ----------- > 12. Is there any chance of a cross-platform version for Linux or Mac users? > > No. Some users have reported varying degrees of success running N1MM > Logger on top of Windows emulators on Mac (Dave, K6WDE/KH6) and Linux > clients. Although we wish them the best of luck in their endeavors, this is > not a configuration that the Dev Team can support > > ------------ > > Ted, KN1CBR > > > > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:39:37 -0400 > From: "Chester Alderman" <[email protected]> > To: "'Jim GM'" <[email protected]>, "'Elecraft'" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX2 and N1MM F-Keys > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Jim, > > N1MM is not even supported anymore! If that is what you are using, you are > making a mistake? N1MM Plus, which was released in early 2014 is the > current > supported contest program and it has thousands of very happy users, all > with > various PC's and rigs, and the program has been acclaimed as being one of > the best contest programs. I have been using N1MM + for many years with > both > of my K3's and the ONLY problem I have had with it has always been > self-induced user issues. If you enjoy contesting with Elecraft (and most > any other manufacturer's equipment) you would find extremely good support > from the authors of N1MM Plus. Just bad-mouthing a good product produces a > dim view of the writer. > > 73, > Tom - W4BQF > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
