Total Eclipse^M will run on a Mac with Windows XP or Vista, in conjunction with either Boot Camp and/or Parallels.  However, we recommend using Boot Camp.

Boot Camp is a different story.  If you were to run Boot Camp, it would be no different than running Windows on any other laptop, as it boots up separately.  If you will be installing Windows Vista, as opposed to XP, Mac recommends a minimum of 2GB RAM.

Global Magic - Translation Magic - AutoBrief

The "LawBridge" protocol that Eclipse uses to communicate with its own Bridge program is as follows:

Text is sent in ASCII format.

Commands are sent as follows: 0x02 (command) 0x03 (it can also be represented as ^B (command) ^C)

Some of the commands can contain extra data, and that data may contain the 0x02 and 0x03 values, so you definitely cannot look for 0x02 and then look for the next 0x03 to see when the command is complete. It will be necessary to look at the command letter to see how many characters of data are expected after that.

Here is a list of the commands: