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Title: [Historical mining software] MacMiner Post by: NotATether on March 14, 2023, 06:49:04 AM 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. https://en.bitcoin.it/w/images/en/f/fe/MacMiner.png 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. Title: Re: [Historical mining software] MacMiner Post by: BitMaxz on March 14, 2023, 02:18:38 PM 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/ Title: Re: [Historical mining software] MacMiner Post by: kano on March 14, 2023, 07:49:15 PM ... I'd guess it is just that and nothing more i.e. not a miner, just a miner status viewer.This is a manager for Mac OS X written in C++ ... 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. |
