Mac goes Intel
You've heard the scuttlebutt and its been confirmed.
Mac OS X has been leading secret double life. Every Mac project build for Intel and PowerPC and Intel. Every release of Mac OS X has been built for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. For the last 5 years. Mac OS X is cross-platform by design. Apple's demo is on an Intel-based system. Jobs shows all Mac OS X Tiger features are already compatible with Intel-based processors. Not done yet. Will put into the developer hands to help Apple finish it. [10:32 am]
I'm not sure what the impact for us will be. Supporting the game on 2 seperate mac platforms could be a real deal killer. unlike most Apps we have to run on a live server. I guess we can have two versions but it sounds like a real PIA. I can't decide if I should drop some huzzahs or mail Jobs a pipe bomb. Thoughts?
MacNN | Live WWDC Event Coverage
Mac OS X has been leading secret double life. Every Mac project build for Intel and PowerPC and Intel. Every release of Mac OS X has been built for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. For the last 5 years. Mac OS X is cross-platform by design. Apple's demo is on an Intel-based system. Jobs shows all Mac OS X Tiger features are already compatible with Intel-based processors. Not done yet. Will put into the developer hands to help Apple finish it. [10:32 am]
I'm not sure what the impact for us will be. Supporting the game on 2 seperate mac platforms could be a real deal killer. unlike most Apps we have to run on a live server. I guess we can have two versions but it sounds like a real PIA. I can't decide if I should drop some huzzahs or mail Jobs a pipe bomb. Thoughts?
MacNN | Live WWDC Event Coverage
6 Comments:
mail Jobs a pipe bomb
It seems to me that all you need to do is tell rickb to add another target to his build scripts. At least that's how it's planned.
Two Words:
Driver Frickin' Hell.
It shouldn't be that hard, unless you guys are delving down into some pretty deep machine level stuff.
Sure, you'll find gotchas, but that's nothing some automated regression tests won't catch. :)
Driver hell? I doubt they will support very wide range of hardware. They don't do that now either.
Third party devices are of course problematic, but how many of them are supported by third party drivers nowadays on mac?
Hmm, if you support a PC Based Mac, how different is that from supporting a Linux version?
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