Caltrops - Motherfucking News





	[quote name="Motherhead"][quote name="corax"]Wow, so it only took three people to port GIMP 2 and Freetype? Did you even own a Mac back then? Anyone who wanted to do anything in OS X for the first year or two was stuck dual-booting to do trivial tasks such as checking their email (Mail 1.0 was buggy and incomplete) or writing a letter (printing from Classic was nearly impossible). Even for the non-hackers, being told to revert to OS 9 after laying down $130 for OS X was not much fun. OS X was clearly beta software when it was first released, with far poorer backwards compatability than previously advertised. Which brings us to the Intel Macs: once again, major apps only run under emulation, Rosetta in this case. There are two main differences this time, however: it's hardware emulation, so it's probably even <a href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars/6">slower</a> (relatively) than Classic, and there is no OS 9-like fallback if something just refuses to work. If paying for beta software is bad, paying for beta hardware is even worse.[/quote] You are talking about 10.0? The actual public beta release? The one that Apple and all of the Apple press labled with "Do Not Use as Primary OS?" Well then yeah, that was a piece of shit. I think I booted that once, laughed and ignored it. I thought you were talking about 10.1 which was the first incarnation of OSX that could possibly be taken seriously. Fuck Rosetta, I'm not now nor would I ever count on a compatibily layer to make money. Are you telling me you expect no Native versions of Adobe products shipping concurrently with 10.5? Do you know something we don't? Because news of Adobe not supporting Apple's platform shift would be arguably bigger news than Apple's platform shift. [/quote]