Electronic chess board working on Mac?

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Avatar of philidaurel
I have seen DGT boards only work on Windows. Do you have experience with other electronic boards working on MacOS?
Avatar of Boydcarts
What capabilities are you looking for? Millennium electronic chess boards can connect to “HIARCS Chess Explorer for Mac” when used with their ChessLink accessory.
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Interesting! I had never looked up HIARCS. The software seems to be updated regularly, although the interface and presentation videos are a bit old. (Also, delightfully British…) Thanks for the hint!
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Just in case someone has another answer, I am bumping this up.

To me, it's rather strange that DGT boards do not work on MacOS (or Linux, I guess).

Avatar of Graham_NZ

They work on Linux using LucasChess if that helps.

The problem for Mac is that DGT never released a version of Rabbit for the Mac so no GUI writers included eBoard support on their Mac products. It's only because Lucas did include it in Linux that I was able to test my driver there.

I could also convert my driver to Mac but there are no GUIs to use it in so it would be a waste of time. No support so no drivers, and no drivers so no support.....

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Thanks for the info! DGT boards on Linux, interesting…

Avatar of jjupiter6

The Certabo board worka with MacOs

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*works

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This sounds supremely lazy of DGT, ignoring Apple consumers et al. when the cost to develop a bare-bones a software product would likely be well worth it to recoup on the huge amount of users that they've ignored to this point. Their products seem to have been that way for at least the 20 years I've followed the scene, often trailing mainstay tech by 10 or more years (read: Serial ports forever). I understand you don't need to be on the cutting edge as people only buy chess boards so often, but seriously! Drive the market with innovation instead. It's primed for takeover by someone who cares about premium product and the user experience in equal measure.