So I've found the link for the Service Manual and I own a MAC and I cannot figure out anyway to make this thing work on my MacBook Pro...I am not that computer savvy by any means... So I was wondering if anyone on these forums had any idea how to get this program to work on a MAC (I even downloaded Internet Explorer for Mac and still no luck...)

http://www.ramforumz.com/showthread.php?t=72221 (link to the forum I found it on)

http://mcfail.net/dt/Service%20manual.zip (official download link)

 

"Won't work on Safari or Firefox"Tried it on my Mac-Mini and could not open it.......JB

 

Yah I've been fighting w/ this thing all day....what a mind boggler

I even downloaded Windows for my Mac and still couldn't figure anything out... I've posted this on a Mac forum to see if any of the let's say "computer squad guru's" can figure it out for me lol.

 

Im working on the download right now.
Ill let you know.

158 Mb pretty big file.

 

You can download a free .RAR expander called Archiver. That will allow you to open .zip and .RAR files on your Mac.

That should do the trick for you!

 

Jason I just downloaded Archiver and opened it up and drug the service manual into it allowed me to open it up in winzip but still didn't work. Let me know if you figure anything out. I'll keep trying since my head is border line from exploding trying to do this most of the day lol...

 

I may have mis lead you. It took a few for me to donload the file and after digging into it a little I found this.


This application should automatically launch if your computer is set to allow applications to autorun. If it does not, you can run
this this application by creating a shortcut to the file \common\html\default.htm, or navigate to that location, and launch it.

Depending on your browser settings, you may get the Microsoft warning regarding allowing Active Content to run on your computer. Just answer the question to allow Active Content to run.

Minimum requirements to run this application are:

- Internet Explorer 6 or 7
- Intel based computer
- 1GB minimum
- Windows XP or Vista
- Adobe SVG Plugin installed (can be installed from a link on the first page)

I will work on it for a few minutes to see what I can do... May simply not be compatible???

Ill be in touch!

 

here is what i came up with. if you have been at it all day you prob saw this already?


1. The autorunning of CDs was turned off for OS X. It used to be possible in OS 9, but the last real malware for OS 9 was the Autostart Worm, that depended on this 'feature'. Since this feature is a security hole, for OS 9, OS X, Windows, or any other operating system, Apple wisely learned from their earlier mistake and did not include that 'feature' in OS X.

2. If this educational software package in question runs in OS X, then you just have to start it manually. If this educational software package is Windows-only, then you'll need to use ******* PC or similar to run it. There do exist free open source Windows emulators that run in OS X, but they are slow slow slow. VPC is better and faster, but of course it costs money.

If you had an Intel-based Mac, you could use Boot Camp, which is also free.

 

Here is a work around. Kinda sucks but this is all I can come up with to help!

I am sympathetic to a guy struggling all day with software issues

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/o...7/default.aspx

 

Jason thanks for all the help so far!

Okay so I have an intel based Mac and found this bootcamp installer your talking about....I opened it up and fooled around w/ it a little bit. So do I need to have a windows disk to make this work? After i click download windows support installer for this it said I need to insert an empty blank cd, for what? lol

I'm shutting my computer down before I fry anymore brain cells today, until tomorrow I can try this again..lol Thanks once again, hopefully I can get this puppy to work!