Hi Dieter,

Software has a problem with platform obsolescence, which is particularly acute for Macs. I doubt it is financially viable for you to support software with upgrades to run on current OS releases in the long term, which has a knock-on effect on the use of your hardware.

My suggestion to help the community overcome this is to publish a specification of the communications between hardware and software, so it is practical to create 3rd party utilities. To minimise the work this could be achieved by open sourcing the code of your existing utility.

(FWIW I have reverse engineered quite a bit of some sampler file formats, to help with present day use of the machines)

Martin

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> On 17 Aug 2017, at 11:55, yahoo@... 1 < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
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> We are still a very small company and there are only 2 persons responsible
> for the hardware and software/firmware design (Christian Assall for the
> software/firmware and me for the hardware). As we are both not familiar with
> Mac programming we are not able to offer the Mac support without external
> manpower. Christian tried already to find a reliable external partner for
> Mac support but as far as I know he was not successful so far. I'll see if
> there is something we can do to solve this problem. If there is a member in
> the group that could help us please contact Christian directly
> ( software@... ).
>
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer
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>> Hi Neil,
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>> Yes, it’s a shame there is no Mac support. I had to write my own
>> software to program my A-192 but cannot update my early A-157.
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>> I don’t have time to reverse engineer the PC updater. If we could
>> get the USB protocol and the new firmware binary I could write a
>> Mac updater for it.
>>
>> John
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>>> On 17 Aug 2017, at 09:28, Neil Kagan nkagan@...
>> 1 < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > wrote:
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>>> Hi to you all,
>>>
>>> I'm not interested in the Mac v PC debate, just a long term Mac
>> user frustrated by the lack of support for Doepfer gear. The
>> A-157 updated is PC only, and this was only released as a product
>> fairly recently. Notation have made use of web based updaters /
>> editors; could this be possible
>>>
>>> Neil
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