Macs, Fusion and Rave

**whisky_mac** · 12th March 2012, 07:35 PM

I have worked Macs in the print industry and like them so I have a 13inch laptop. I also have EAS unlock, Oziexplorer and have just brought the Rave CD. You might notice these all require windows so I brought Fusion and windows XP with the service pack 3.

Fusion seems to work fine and the maps look good on the 13inch screen in Oziexplorer. Rave is the problem. I pop the CD in and open up rave to get the tutorial. It is all I can get. I cannot find any other exe file on the CD. The Autorun just opens the bl**dy tutorial. Did I support the site by my purchase of the Rave CD to get a useless tutorial which tells me how to use acrobat. I already new that. Can anybody running a mac, Fusion and Rave enlighten me.

Cheers
Jim

**vnx205** · 12th March 2012, 07:51 PM

Oziexplorer and the Rave CD work on my old PC running Ubuntu. They don't need Windows.

**incisor** · 12th March 2012, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by whisky_mac

I have worked Macs in the print industry and like them so I have a 13inch laptop. I also have EAS unlock, Oziexplorer and have just brought the Rave CD. You might notice these all require windows so I brought Fusion and windows XP with the service pack 3.

Fusion seems to work fine and the maps look good on the 13inch screen in Oziexplorer. Rave is the problem. I pop the CD in and open up rave to get the tutorial. It is all I can get. I cannot find any other exe file on the CD. The Autorun just opens the bl**dy tutorial. Did I support the site by my purchase of the Rave CD to get a useless tutorial which tells me how to use acrobat. I already new that. Can anybody running a mac, Fusion and Rave enlighten me.

certainly not how rave cds behave on my mac using vmware

what rave cd you using?

be good to see a screen capture (alt-prtscn on active window) and then pasted to a document

so we can see where you are at

**Bytemrk** · 12th March 2012, 08:54 PM

I can confirm Rave is working fine for me in VMWare.

Win 7 pro 64bit in VMware Fusion 4 - OSX Lion on a 2011 Macbook Pro

I have the Series 2 Discovery Rave- runs exactly as it does in my native Windows desktop.

**whisky_mac** · 13th March 2012, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by incisor

certainly not how rave cds behave on my mac using vmware

what rave cd you using?

be good to see a screen capture (alt-prtscn on active window) and then pasted to a document

so we can see where you are at

Hi Incisor, using Rave II, I have figured it out, I was looking at the page number telling me it was only one page but have realised that clicking on the active buttons it opens up to display much more than just the tutorial. Sorry to trouble everyone, I will try to turn my brain on first next time.

Dumb Ass Jim

It'sNotWorthComplaining! · 14th March 2012, 08:53 AM

Do a search, we covered this not so long ago, were we mentioned a profram called freerave, it removes the default acrobat reader thats locked into the protected rave, then you can use it on Mac with any pdf reader, no need to run fusion, vmware, parrallels

**OffTrack** · 20th March 2012, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

Do a search, we covered this not so long ago, were we mentioned a profram called freerave, it removes the default acrobat reader thats locked into the protected rave, then you can use it on Mac with any pdf reader, no need to run fusion, vmware, parrallels

Definitely the best option. I've put together a compilation of workshop manual electrical diagrams and tech bulletins (updated to include those published after 2002) in a PDF portfolio for my own use. It far more efficient to use than the RAVE package.

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