[Historical mining software] MacMiner

[NotATether]

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.

[BitMaxz]

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/

[kano]

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