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Old Aug 16, 2011 | 10:19 PM
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mac?!?

any1 ever used one of the akm cables and found software to tune/scan codes with a mac? i have a mac, and am trying to buy one of the akm cables off of a member here and juz wanted to know if i could do anything with my macbook...thanks
Old Aug 18, 2011 | 02:53 PM
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Re: mac?!?

bump...no1 has an idea?
Old Aug 19, 2011 | 09:53 AM
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Re: mac?!?

You are a minority in the F-Body tuning world, maybe to only one asking about a MAC, probably why no response. Seems to me if you had a USB ALDL cable the interface is an industry standard. Your major problem would be a compatible driver plus all the free or low cost software to tune and log the ODB1 PCM's that have flash memory ('94-95 F-Body) is now at least 17 years old, and was written for Windows, and has had very little incentive to update. . In fact it's getting to be a PITA to even run the stuff on the newer OS coming out. To make things easier I keep an ancient Windows 95 laptop running that's dedicated to just tuning my car. No network or OS updates it's just locked in time like a vault with old software that never changes.
Old Aug 19, 2011 | 06:09 PM
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damn...sucks to b a mac owner
Old Aug 20, 2011 | 02:14 AM
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You aren't going to find much in the way of support for Macs in the tuning world. I don't know much about Apple, but I suppose if you were to load Windows XP or 7 on it as a second OS, you could probably use it for tuning that way.
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