Blue tooth support for dell axim and GrandMA

[dabuddha]

ok,, Now i know that this is deff the forum i need. i have recently purchased a dell axim 50, wich is a kicka@@ pocket pc. Here is the problem, Grandma is hooked up to a system called sidewinder wich is then sent via bluetooth to a palmone program called figment,, it works wonderfully, with everyone who has a palm one operating system,, wich excludes me, is there anyway i can set my axim, wich is wifi, infrared, and bluetooth, enabled, to comunicate to GrandMA and run cues and lights. Any advice would be good.

Side note, if a show called cookin comes to your theatre,, trust me, ,buy a realllyyyyyy big broom.

[Peter]

I dont really know what interfaces a GrandMA has, but you could (if there is software available to do it) use Wi-fi to go to a computer next to your GrandMA and use MIDI out of that comptuer into the GrandMA. The physical pluging of this isnt hard, the hard part would be gettng software to do anything like this...

[techieman33]

You'll just have to find software for the windows os, i'm sure it has to be out there somewhere.

[bdesmond]

Fundamentally what you're trying to accomplish will not work. Palm software does not run on Pocket PC. They are two different operating systems - PalmOS and Windows Mobile 2003. Just like trying to run Mac software on a PC.

[falcon]

mac software does run on pc as long as you have virtual mac

pc software works on mac if you have virtual pc

[techieman33]

yes it is different software, but what i'm saying is that there is probably a program out there for windows mobile.

[bdesmond]

Originally Posted by falcon

mac software does run on pc as long as you have virtual mac

pc software works on mac if you have virtual pc

Ok I picked my words badly. Mac software does not run natively on PCs and vice versa.

Never heard of "virtual mac", unless you're in reference to pear pc which is very much still in development.

[Peter]

"virtual mac" is a software program its self that acts as a contanier/translator/go-between for the mac os and the windows OS and chipsets. the Mac os runs and sends all its commands through this program to be translated to a "language" a PC processor can understand then everthing runs back through this program to the mac os. This works, but it is typically slower then just runing an OS normally.

[bdesmond]

link, please? I'm familiar with how virtualization products work. I just have never seen such a product as virtual mac. Just the other way around with Virtual PC by MS, formerly Connectrix.

[Peter]

ditto.... i was asumeing that virtual mac would be the same as virtual PC in reverse...

I know why noone knows about the software.... no PC user has ever found a reason to use Mac Software!!! :-) ok, ya, that was a low blow and I'm sorry, but I defanatly like PCs better then Macs (just personal oppinion and we dont have to start a whole debate about which is better!)