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Mac OSx with VMFusion running Windows Pro: programming Propellers. . . .
Hey there,
I’ve just switched over to a Macintosh.
BST works wonderfully, but the Parallax Propeller Tool running in a Windows VMFusion environment doesn’t seem to detect or program Propellers. In the Device Manager the addition/removal of FTDI hardware doesn’t show up as a VCP serial port – does anybody have the same hardware setup and know how to get this functioning?
Thanks,
Ken Gracey
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