Well this question has been all over the place since ECUFlash came out. Today, I was able to meet up with a fellow Evo owner to play with the software on our Evos. Very interesting stuff, so crazy how the software is able to do all that it does.

I have a Mac G4 PowerBook (1.5GHz, 1.25GB RAM) loaded with Virtual PC. I was able to get both programs loaded successfully. I was even able to pull my ROM from my ECU and was able to log for a bit. The only issue I noticed was in EvoScan. The logging would timeout a lot, I would get about 10 seconds of logging and it was stopped. I also noticed that it made my RPM go up to 2000 without me touching it... Twice. ECUFlash worked flawlessly.

Viewing my flash, my low and high octane maps were set to the same. Although, my ignition maps were changed from the stock maps a good amount. The block of 8* is not present in my flash. I will be taking a further look into comparing my maps to a few others to see what's going on. It should be a lot of fun to tune my car.

So, both programs work on a Mac running on Virtual PC. I will attempt to play with ECUFlash more to see if I can get it to work. Time to read up.

 

See if mitsulogger runs any better than Evoscan, I'm curious about it on the MAC.. Its a free download on my site.

 

Just downloaded it. I will have to borrow the cable or meet up again to test it out. Will keep you updated though.

 

Cool.. I'm really curious to see if the connection times out like Evoscan or its more resiliant..

 

Never had a connection timeout and I have over 100 logs these last few weeks, even datalogging from my aem ugeo with no issues using evoscan. maybe its your laptop. i am runing a 1700MHZ and a gig of ram usb 2.0 on xpsp2 if that means anything

 

Are you running a Mac or a PC?


I will be download my ROM again and get about 2-3 third gear logs at 20 PSI on 91. Should be interesting and fun.

 

you could also try bootcamp

 

It's a G4 PowerBook not an Intel MacBook. Plus Bootcamps sucks. Parallels is way better since it can allocate full memory to Windows XP if OS X is idle.

 

Back again posting about emulators and logging software.

It seems that both EvoScan and Mitsulogger do not log correctly going through an emulator on a Mac. It logs a little bit but then it will skip RPMS. For example, it will log 2000-3000 then skip to 3400, skip 3600, etc., etc.. I am thinking that the program is having a hard time logging

You can check my logs at:

http://members.***.net/pog0/log1.csv
http://members.***.net/pog0/log2.csv
http://members.***.net/pog0/log3pc.csv

The first two are on my Mac PowerBook G4 running Virtual PC. The third is on a PC which logs flawlessly.

Now viewing my logs. The PC log was a pretty much a full third gear run, shifted to 4th, stopped at the end of 4th. I was tuned by Al @ DynoFlash. There is a few counts of knock upwards to 8 and 9 at the top end near 7000 RPM. Now the main question is, what would I do to actually remove the knock that I am getting? Viewing my ROM, the low and high octane maps are the same, but the ignition map seems modified a good amount. My AFRs through the pulls are low 10s @ 1.4 bar and it seems to pull very good and I dont feel knock/hesitation/pinging like I have in my previous boosted cars. Should I start with adjusting my low and high octane maps to get a steady AFR, then tune my IGN maps? I never had so many options to play with before. My only previous experience tuning was in my All-Trac with my VPC/GCC combo which was 100x easier.

 

Although I've had good success with USB passing through while using VMWare, your the first person who has really tried to do this that I'm aware of..

In reality, I'm not surprised, the problem with communications is that if the port doesnt get the priority it needs, it will drop data. Especially with applications like Mitsulogger which has a very short timeout to improve performance..

 

any break throughs?

 

Any updates with Evoscan/ecuflash with a MacBook?

 

I use a mac with bootcamp.


Evoscan .97 works, Mitsulogger works, ecuflash 1.28 and 1.33 works


evoscan 2.0 and ecuflash 1.34 do not work...

Why, I dont know and dont care =-)


Hope that helps!

Cheers!

 

So with bootcamp everything run's smoothly and what not? Also, does boot camp come with Macbook's built in?

 

I am amazed that you were able to log at all with virtual PC on a mac. With all the software driven hardware virtualization, it's amazing that you could connect at all.