Dual-Boxing Mac & Windows

[kspn]

Hi,

I am new here and the search wouldn't let me look for MAC or OSX so I apologise if this has already been answered.

I have 2 Systems, one MAC and one Windows (7) I want to use for Dual-Boxing. What is the best program to do that?

What I am looking for is something that has Keystroke Broadcast, mouse broadcast is not important.

Although I could run both on the one system, (I have done that previousely) I have found that the framerate suffers when you do it, so I want to run them on Different Systems.

Of course if it either is too hard, or costs too much then I wiull just go back to dual screening them on the one box.

K

[Ualaa]

Not really sure of a boxing software that runs on both PC and Mac.
Maybe someone else will have an idea.

[Norrin]

I was toying about the idea of creating Multilaunchbox for pc too, so it could work with both. But with Bootcamp and ISBoxer, it just didn't seem that much of a need for it.

I don't know of any cross platform solutions either, at least for Key broadcasting. You could probably get Synergy+ (I think that was it). I believe it has key sending. I could never get it actually work right though.

[kspn]

I am trying Synergy out at the moment, and the biggest issue I have is that it keep crashing on me :(

[shadewalker]

Synergy with broadcast is the only cross-platform solution I know about. You can find the download link on the dual-boxing wiki pages here. If it is crashing you could try running the synergy server on the other computer.

[ElectronDF]

I also would love a cross-platform program. I use HotKeyNet and use VNC to make windows to the Macs. I minimize them, so they don't slow down the Mac screen at all. I use RealVNC since it was free when I got it, is small/simple and it works well. I can't seem to get "ALT" to pass through since Macs swap "Windows" and "ALT" keys, but oh well. I just have HKN talk to the VNC window like it was a WOW running on my computer. It doesn't pass mouse clicks, or couldn't find an easy way, so I just don't do ground AOE stuff. So it has room for improvement, but it works for now.

[shadewalker]

You may be able to get the alt key passed if you change the modifier mappings in the keyboard system preference pane. I think you just need to swap the command and option(alt). This is what I did to get my g15 modifier buttons in the right place.

Sorry if I got the keys wrong, I am not on my regular computer right now.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

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