On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 01:56 PM, Jayson B. wrote:
All this adds up to me wanting a MAC version. I'll keep buying vinyl,
I love listening to it at home and almost all the music I own in on
wax, but come on, get that heavy record bag off my shoulder and I'm a
happy camper.
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if i'm correct, finalscratch still runs on the BE operating system.
And while i know it only comes with the pc version, if you bought the
mac version, there's no reason why final scratch wouldn't work on it.
that was one of the beautiful things about the Be os; although you
could use either a mac or a pc with the Os, anything that would work on
Be Pc would work on the Be Mac.
anyone know anything different?
you could only use be on much older versions of macs. basically about
the time that jobs came back to the company, that compatibility went
away. so it was several years ago. and that's also irrelevant now....
the pro version of FS (i.e. the first version) was based on be. be got
sold and basically dismantled, sot that screwed up everything. it then
got ported to an embedded linux system -- this is a little different
than a normal linux install. the consumer version will come with a
stripped down linux distribution, designed to run FS. it uses a
loopback file system on your (pc) c: drive, which is basically like a
virtual partition. it creates a 500mb (or so) file from within which
all the OS stuff happens, independent of the rest of the c: drive
(believe this doesn't apply to the audio files). this is how they get
around the latency issue without requiring the home user to repartition
their drive and do a 'normal' linux install - which, depending on the
distribution and the hardware, can be a real bitch. this need to make
FS consumer friendly is what has delayed the launch.. which is a pretty
good reason. stanton swears that if you have a pc that meets the basic
system requirements you'll just be able to run the installer and be done
with it. and as that letter stated, a mac version will be out shortly
thereafter. not sure if that will also be an embedded linux solution as
well or not. it's feasible to run FS under osx because of it's unix/bsd
heritage so we'll see. no way will it run on 9.x systems. i'm one of
those people anxiously awaiting the mac availability...
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