I am trying to install PICAXE on my old PPC Mac - it's a G4 with 1GB RAM and OS X 10.5
AXE027 USB Cable
I installed the AXE027 driver for PPC Mac then went into Terminal and typed in the commands given in the instructions:
cd /dev
ls-l
The second command did not work - I think it is supposed to be "ls -l" although the result of simply typing "ls" gave me a listing that looked like what I was looking for. Except tty.usbserial-xxxxxxxx was not there (but tty.modem and a long listing of other tty_ items were listed).
I found the driver on the install path given "/system/library/extensions" and checked its permissions and the group "wheel" was granted read-only rights.
I opened the Network System Preferences but there was no notice about a new service available.
AXEPad
I downloaded the AXEPad software labeled "MacAXEpadPPC (Mac OSX, PPC, 10.4+)" from http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/ and ran the software but got an error message that the software would not run on my hardware architecture. Are there limitations other than the processor and OS that prevent it from working on my Mac? I did have a copy of the Intel Mac version on the drive and this is the error I would expect from running that software but I was careful to launch the correct version.
Thanks in advance for your help!
AXE027 USB Cable
I installed the AXE027 driver for PPC Mac then went into Terminal and typed in the commands given in the instructions:
cd /dev
ls-l
The second command did not work - I think it is supposed to be "ls -l" although the result of simply typing "ls" gave me a listing that looked like what I was looking for. Except tty.usbserial-xxxxxxxx was not there (but tty.modem and a long listing of other tty_ items were listed).
I found the driver on the install path given "/system/library/extensions" and checked its permissions and the group "wheel" was granted read-only rights.
I opened the Network System Preferences but there was no notice about a new service available.
AXEPad
I downloaded the AXEPad software labeled "MacAXEpadPPC (Mac OSX, PPC, 10.4+)" from http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/ and ran the software but got an error message that the software would not run on my hardware architecture. Are there limitations other than the processor and OS that prevent it from working on my Mac? I did have a copy of the Intel Mac version on the drive and this is the error I would expect from running that software but I was careful to launch the correct version.
Thanks in advance for your help!