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Replace F3X for macOS #1739

Closed ihaveamac closed 3 years ago

ihaveamac commented 4 years ago

F3X apparently does not work anymore and isn't maintained: https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/issues/127

TurdPooCharger commented 4 years ago

No luck either with Wine HQ + H2testw.

Catalina and the future of Wine on Mac

MechanicalDragon0687 commented 4 years ago

Can one not just use F3 on Mac?

TurdPooCharger commented 4 years ago

Probably not. Compiling source code specifically for Linux can sometimes be a hit or miss on Unix/BSD/Macintosh. It also doesn't help that Apple has a long history with their products and closed ecosystem being as unwelcoming as possible to open source software.

I suppose most Mac users who are into 3DS homebrew and that sort of stuff would most likely also have Windows bootcamp if they needed to check their SD card by H2testw. Those who are macOS only users and are owners of the latest MacBook models could resort to live booting a Linux distro of their choice from a USB flashdrive and then running F3 in that session.

Someone who's a Mac user, can you check if there's a software that's comparable to H2testw/F3/F3X found on the Mac App Store?

ihaveamac commented 4 years ago

F3 does exist for Mac, homebrew provides it too. The problem then would be teaching users how to use it.

ihaveamac commented 4 years ago

F3's repo has steps for building on Mac too https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3

TurdPooCharger commented 4 years ago

Does F3 on Mac works exactly like on Linux where you run it from command line?

ihaveamac commented 4 years ago

Yes f3write and f3read work exactly the same.

TurdPooCharger commented 4 years ago

If I wrote a tutorial with screenshots on how to download, compile, and run f3write & f3read on [Manjaro/Ubuntu/Mint] Linux, would that example be similar enough as a stand-in replacement for F3X (Mac)?

I have a laptop that's Hackintosh compatible if we're aiming to capture authentic macOS desktop environment for those pictures but rather not go down that route.

ihaveamac commented 4 years ago

Probably, just without the compiling part since most users won't need to do that.

TurdPooCharger commented 4 years ago

I couldn't think of improvements to the written tutorial in the F3 (Linux), except adding an example image as a visual aid.

Is this sufficient and generic enough for both Linux and Mac?

F3_Terminal

lilyuwuu commented 3 years ago

There is now a GUI again for F3, called F3XSwift! https://github.com/vrunkel/F3XSwift

Seems to work just fine.

lilyuwuu commented 3 years ago

Resolved by #1802