WineBottler is a helper app for running Wine on your Mac. Wine lets you run Windows software in OS X without Boot Camp or a Virtual Machine. Contrary to many comments, Wine is not an emulator.
A 'retail version' is the boxed, retail or universal installer disk that is designed to install on a variety of Apple computers, whereas a model-specific Restore disk contains a software build that supports the model that it shipped with. While some may have success using a Restore disk, it's not the preferred way to achieve a problem-free installation. You can search the web or eBay for a retail/universal OS X (Panther or Tiger) installer disk, which will be black and have a large silver 'X' across the face of the disk.
Before you install OS X on the G3 iMac, you must first determine what firmware version the computer has been programmed with. Depending on whether you have a tray-loading or slot-loading optical drive, the differs. On that chart, you can see that a tray-loader requires firmware version 1.2, but a slot-loader requires version 4.1.9. If needed, either of these can be downloaded. With the slot-loading G3 iMacs, you should be running OS 9.1 (which you indicated), in order to run the firmware updater. Additionally, the specific model G3 iMac that you have determines whether you'll be limited to installing OS 10.3.x (Panther) or OS 10.4.x (Tiger).
The hardware requirement for installing Tiger on a slot-loading optical drive G3 iMac would be FireWire ports. Be aware that the retail/universal Tiger installer disk is a DVD, so even if you have an iMac with FireWire ports, an internal DVD-ROM drive or an external FireWire-connected DVD drive would be needed. Some of those iMacs that support Tiger had a CD-RW drive. You'll also need adequate system memory installed, as well as adequate hard drive capacity. Your would use the version 4.1.9 Firmware Updater, but it may have already been run by a previous owner. Using the Apple System Profiler in OS 9.1, scroll down the System Info page to the part where the System ROM version is indicated.
If it lists 4.1.9, you're good to go and could install either Panther or Tiger, but I'd want more memory installed - at least 256 MBs, and preferably more. Your iMac DV can support a maximum of 512 MB DIMMs in the (2) memory slots, for a total of 1 GB of memory. If the current 128 MBs represents one DIMM, then you could add a 256 or 512 MB DIMM in the other slot. If there are (2) 64 MB DIMMs installed, then one has to be removed to free up a slot. I'd be reluctant to mix a 64 MB DIMM with a 256 or 512 MB DIMM, because of the difference in chip densities between the two. Your hard drive may be 10 GBs, which is a bit small to comfortably run Tiger. Assuming that the internal DVD-ROM drive is functioning, you should have no problems using the Tiger DVD installer disk.
You can decide if you want to wipe the hard drive, before installing OS X or if you want to keep the OS 9.1 installation. If you would like to run pre-OS X programs on your iMac, keep OS 9.1 intact and update it to 9.2.2 by downloading/running the OS 9.2.1 and then 9.2.2 Updates. Now that you've completed that required procedure, you're able to install OS X. Either Panther (10.3.x) or Tiger (10.4.x) are generally recommended for an iMac of that vintage, while Jaguar (10.2.x) usually isn't because each successive release improved the overall quality of the software. Check to see how much available hard drive space you have and compare that to the system requirements for each OS version.
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contributed by guest blo gger If you want to use on a Mac running OS X you will have to do some preparations. This is a brief introduction to get you up and running with on a Mac in the terminal. You may have heard that you can use “Wine” to run on OS X. Depending on your experience this might sound intuitive, or like utter jibberish. For those who feel more like the latter, let’s walk through this. If you don’t have go ahead and install that now by following the instructions on the site. It should be one line found at the bottom of the page, entered into the terminal.
It is a fantastic package manager which has saved me the trouble of dealing with unruly libraries, paths, dependencies, etc. What is Wine?
Wine allows for Windows programs to run on Mac OS X (and other non-Windows platforms like Linux). That is all we are interested in here. Read more about Wine, if you’d like. Side note: You might see something called WineBottler in your search for information on Wine. You can use to transform.exe files to.app files. I found it did not work with, but good to know about for other applications.
Follow these steps! Let’s install Wine with: brew install wine My build took 3.7 minutes.
Time will vary. This next part is based off the code on. Place the download where you like (but avoid spaces and funny symbols in the directory names). Then change directories in the terminal to where the zipped folder is located. Unzip the distribution: unzip lastools.zip 4.
Enter the unzipped folder: cd lastools 5. Now enter the ‘bin’ directory where the modules are located: cd bin 6. Run some tool (here: ) by calling wine before the command: wine lasview -i pathToYourFile/yourFile.laz For an OpenGL window should open up and you should see your LiDAR data being rendered (see the file for all the different visualization options or follow ). Go ahead and start exploring your data. You can use any of the many modules by preceding the command with “wine”. Today I happened to be looking at a section of: Then get going with and follow along the or the 4 step by step tutorials (1:, 2:, 3:, 4: ). After having installed Wine you will also be able to use.
For the geospatially inclined, check out for installing other libraries. If you are working with geospatial data, you can use brew to install, and many more.