[Historical mining software] MacMiner

kano

legendary

Activity: 4466

Merit: 1798

Linux since 1997 RedHat 4

Quote from: NotATether on March 14, 2023, 02:49:04 AM

...
This is a manager for Mac OS X written in C++
...

I'd guess it is just that and nothing more i.e. not a miner, just a miner status viewer.

The PGA0/ASC0 names highly suggest it is talking to my cgminer API to get miner status info from a miner elsewhere on the computer's network.

BitMaxz

legendary

Activity: 3234

Merit: 2943

Block halving is coming.

I think it should be a PCIe riser or through Jtag where you can connect FPGA to a laptop or Macbook.

But the problem is there is no FPGA driver for MacOS no one yet develop it. I heard someone use parallel virtual to install Linux or windows to run FPGA but there is no proper guide on how to do it.

I saw this guide below but it only contains a guide on how to make FPGA work on MacOS using parallel.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/xc7f66/a_working_fpga_toolchain_on_apple_silicon/

NotATether

legendary

Activity: 1568

Merit: 6660

bitcoincleanup.com / bitmixlist.org

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MacMiner

This is something I found while I was on the Bitcoin Wiki and flipping through random pages.

This is a manager for Mac OS X written in C++ that supports ASICs and FPGAs. So it's not necessary some CPU miner from the bygone age.

Side note: I wonder how you even insert an ASIC into a Mac in the first place, as even if they have the correct plug type, it still has to be recognized and exposed by the kernel.

Topic: [Historical mining software] MacMiner (Read 187 times)