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Woah woah now hold on there a little bitty. I heard this term that sounded quite pleasant..."Mac OS X..."
So you're a Mac developer? What're the chances of a Mac port of FB?
I'm getting a Mac soon, and you're going to be getting a hell of a lot more emails from me about programming on that system.
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I coded both the Allegro and AllegroGL ports for OSX...but that was Objective-C, not assembler; to port FB to OSX you'll need to learn PPC assembly, and I can't help there as I never used it. :roll:
Plus, I sold my iBook about 6 months ago due to the fact I needed to purchase a PC notebook (from which I'm writing this message now) for my master thesis work... So I'm not a Mac developer anymore, at least for now. I plan to grab a new Mac as soon as I have the money though...
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Need to learn PPC assembler? Really? Damnit.
Oh well. Can't have everything in life. I hear Tiger has new features which allow you to develop GUI software in Applescript. And there's always Cocoa.
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Well, a PowerPC emitter would have to be written, which probably won't be a simple task because the fbc code is currently designed around the x86 and CISC architectures in general. I've heard about a Mac emulator for x86/Win32 but I don't know if it's worth using, and I can't hardly imagine it'd be legal without buying a license from Apple or something similar...
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There is, it's called pearpc and it can run macos x.
Problem is, is it runs it at about 1/30th the speed, so it would be almost painful to try and develop with it. There's another (the name's left me) that claims to be able to run it at 1/2 the speed with dynamic recompilation, but it costs money and I don't think it runs macos-x, only darwin.
The problem with emulating ppc's on x86 stems from the fact that ppcs have more registers, or at least this is what I understand. I've only done Java development on macs, because that's all that's on the library's computers.
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i'm i belive there 32 general perpouse register in ppc but that just of the top of my head.
anyways would it really matter if MAx os X ran at 1/30 the speed i mean the goal just to devople not to run some really CPU intensive app.
