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lilbopeep
11-03-2007, 06:40 PM
My 2nd box is an Ibook and I use it to play WOW. All of these solutions seem to be PC only. Is there something that will work with MAC as well?

rjenkins8142
11-04-2007, 11:45 AM
CloneKeys works on the Mac.

Here's what I do:

3 WoWs on the Mac, broadcasted with CloneKeys

2 WoWs on a PC, broadcasted with Keyclone

Broadcasting between the machines I handle with Synergy. (Mac broadcasts to PC.)

I used to run all 5 on the Mac, but even though I was able to maintain 30fps on all windows, it got very choppy at times and my 4 CPUs were constantly pegged at near 100%.

CloneKeys (Mac only) - http://code.google.com/p/clonekeys/

Keyclone (PC only) - http://solidice.com/keyclone/index.html

And you'll need one of these, depending on which machine is your "main".
Synergy w/ Broadcasting (Mac server) - http://mendax.org/?p=577
Synergy w/ Broadcasting (PC server) - http://www.dual-boxing.com/SynergyWBroad.zip

The non-main machine(s) uses the normal synergy client, which can be found at: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

lilbopeep
11-04-2007, 04:43 PM
CloneKeys works on the Mac.

Here's what I do:

3 WoWs on the Mac, broadcasted with CloneKeys

2 WoWs on a PC, broadcasted with Keyclone

Broadcasting between the machines I handle with Synergy. (Mac broadcasts to PC.)

I used to run all 5 on the Mac, but even though I was able to maintain 30fps on all windows, it got very choppy at times and my 4 CPUs were constantly pegged at near 100%.

CloneKeys (Mac only) - http://code.google.com/p/clonekeys/

Keyclone (PC only) - http://solidice.com/keyclone/index.html

And you'll need one of these, depending on which machine is your "main".
Synergy w/ Broadcasting (Mac server) - http://mendax.org/?p=577
Synergy w/ Broadcasting (PC server) - http://www.dual-boxing.com/SynergyWBroad.zip

The non-main machine(s) uses the normal synergy client, which can be found at: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

I found synergy after some digging last night. When it works, it works wonderfully, except for the fact that on the mac I can't use the mouse to look more than a few degrees in any direction before it stops at the invisible screen border.

The only big problem I have had is that synergy server on my PC crashed once last night and when it did my normal mouse and keyboard stopped working as well. I couldn't close the crash message or do anything and had to force a power down.