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From: David White <dwhite2@san.rr.com>
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Subject: Mac setup
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:43:57 -0700
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Hello Everybody,

I've got my Net Yaroze running on my Power Mac! Most everything 
checked out when I connected it to my Macintosh. There were a few 
quirks with the Macintosh installation though:

1. After you install Code Warrior, you need to use a supplied 
script to convert one of the lib files on the Sony CD. What they
don't tell you is that you need to transfer this lib file to
your hard disk before you run the convert program or it will
try to write to the CD ROM.

2. I wasn't able to connect to the Yaroze using the supplied 
communications software until I had removed my Global Village
FAX and Teleport Control Panels from the Control Panel directory
and rebooted.

3. The supplied 'check' program that you are supposed to load
from the PSCommUtil program wasn't visable from its file
requester. I recompiled the program and got a 'check.pse' file
which was visable and ran OK. I had to remove the 'sys/' prefix 
from the '#include' at the top of main.c to get it to compile on 
the Mac. I've found that for any programs to be visable in the
PSCommUtil open dialog box, they must have a File Type of
'PSX '. PSCommUtil's memory partition must be set higher to load
other programs (I had to set it to 2000 to be able to load 
'main' from the 'blow' sample program found in the samples section).

4. I never got the Yaroze to recognize my memory card. The
memory card is supposed to remember your serial port speed
setting so you won't be stuck with 9600 bits/sec. I was able to
verify that the card was OK and it was visible from slot 2
(the Net Yaroze access card must be in slot 1) when booting
the Play Station without the Yaroze CD ROM. Either the Yaroze
software has a problem or I don't understand the correct procedure.
Has anybody else had this problem?

5. I was not able to get the Code Warrior PSCommUtil program
to successfully upload any of the data files from the sample
programs that I downloaded from Sony's site. The upload would 
appear normal for a few seconds, then I would get a dialog box 
with the following text:

		Exception Thrown
		Error # -39
		File CFile.cpp
		Line #211

I've notified Metrowerks of this problem as well. Hopefully, they 
will find a solution soon.

Anyway, despite a few startup glitches, it looks like I'm off to
a good start.

David

(see my 3D web page at www.znet.com/~dwhite/' to get a preview 
of what I'll be porting over to my Net Yaroze.)