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  Topic Name: Great Divide Track for a MAC on: February 02, 2011, 07:05:50 AM
gosurfariver


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« on: February 02, 2011, 07:05:50 AM »
Hey,

I admittedly know very little about GPS units, but I am learning.  I just got a Garmin Vista HCX for the Great Divide, and realized that Topofusion doesn't run on MAC OS.  Does anyone know how I can make this work?
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  Topic Name: Great Divide Track for a MAC Reply #1 on: February 03, 2011, 07:55:17 AM
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2011, 07:55:17 AM »
I have / had the same problem. Download Garmin Basecamp for mac from Garmins web site. It is free. Totaly sucks compared to TF but will get the job done. You may need some info from your HCX and serial #s to get it done. You will then need to find in basecamp somewhere ( took me 3 days to find, and now i forget where ) to default to a 500 point when downloading, otherwise you will have trouble. I was able to get the entire TD route on my 60csx. Good luck.

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  Topic Name: Great Divide Track for a MAC Reply #2 on: February 03, 2011, 08:54:51 PM
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2011, 08:54:51 PM »
I have a friend that loaded windows on his mac. He had to boot up diffrent to run windows but then was able to run his work PC programs.
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  Topic Name: Great Divide Track for a MAC Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 09:21:45 AM
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 09:21:45 AM »
It is possible to run TopoFusion on MAC, but yeah, you either need to use bootcamp, vmware fusion, or parallels.  All are different options to emulate windows.  TF does work on them, per several user reports.

Basecamp is a good suggestion if all you want to do is upload tracks.  It's free.
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  Topic Name: Great Divide Track for a MAC Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 10:43:55 AM
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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 10:43:55 AM »
Thanks everyone.  I dug out my old PC wiped the seriously corrupted hard drive and reinstalled windows.  By gosh the old thing works.  I wonder for how long but it does.  Didn't think I'd be using this thing anymore but now I am glad I kept it.

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  Topic Name: Great Divide Track for a MAC Reply #5 on: February 09, 2011, 02:33:06 PM
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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2011, 02:33:06 PM »
Just to throw out a great, free virtualization option for Macs, Sun's VirtualBox works really well. I haven't missed anything about the closed-source variants like Vmware and Parallels.

http://www.virtualbox.org/
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