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I don't know if anyone has tried playing Oni with OS X 10.6, and if so is there a performance change (better or worse). I know snow leopard is not supporting to be installed on PPC computers, but can we still run PPC programs? I ask because of an announcement this morning about it being released on the 28th, which is in 4 days.
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I believe 10.6 will run PPC apps; we would have been told by now if it doesn't. As to how Oni in specific runs, that's the $64,000 question. The only ones who could know yet are those in the Developer program (and at a higher tier than I am). If there's anyone like that on the forum, I'd sure like to know. Barring that, you'll have to ask the guy in Japan who got a Mac mini with Snow Leopard installed by accident
Anyway, if someone here is an early adopter, we'll all find out together in four days, as you said. Like you, I'm quite curious to see how the PPC build fares in 10.6.
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Well since I just got my Mac Mini a couple of weeks ago, I qualify for the up to date program and my order is supposed to ship by the 28th.
Also, I read somewhere that Rosetta is an optional install, so PPC apps should work...
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I am very hesitant to install if we are faced with it not working at all or with even more complications than it has now. I just wonder if since they are not supporting PPC computers if they plan to drop rosetta support soon as well.
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Well, it sounds like EdT will be our brave pioneer tester, so we'll get his news from the frontier pretty soon.
I just wonder if since they are not supporting PPC computers if they plan to drop rosetta support soon as well.
It's certainly possible. Not many Mac users are tied to crucial PPC apps these days, so they have little incentive to keep supporting apps which themselves are only getting older and thus more likely to have crash reports coming in from newer Macs.
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Then it looks like we will need that new Oni build to be worked on ASAP.
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Good article on OSX 10.6: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/17/mac-201- … w-leopard/
Since Oni is already running under Rosetta on Intel Macs, it should work fine with 10.6... I hope :-)
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Good article on OSX 10.6: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/17/mac-201- … w-leopard/
Since Oni is already running under Rosetta on Intel Macs, it should work fine with 10.6... I hope :-)
Edt I noticed the picture on your avatar. You like Tenchi Muyo by chance?
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Shade: Yes, I used to watch it a lot.
More info on 10.6 compatibility:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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While Oni should continue to work I think, there shouldn't be any real performance improvement since most of the optimizations require recompilation of the application by the developer.
The only possibility I see would be if Apple had improved Rosetta; since it's to be dropped next version of OS X or so, I don't think they did.
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I know it is early, but has anyone got it yet?
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Nope, mine has not shipped yet...
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Snow Leopard Watch 2009. (And why is it shipping in the summer anyway? I guess Southern Hemispherers are okay with that, at least.)
FYI: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258 is Apple's official list for incompatible apps.
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Nobody has posted back, I am assuming that it is because it works fine, or that nobody has installed snow leopard yet...
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Yeah, EdT, what's up? I know a friend who already got it and installed it two days ago!
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Installed 10.6... and yes, Oni, AE Installer and AETools works.
Had to update a number of programs to work with Snow Leopard. Waiting for iStat menu to be updated, but other than that everything is well, so far.
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Although you must have chosen to install Rosetta, unless it's automatically chosen for you?
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Although you must have chosen to install Rosetta, unless it's automatically chosen for you?
By default it isn't installed; by the time you need it, a dialog asks you if you want it and if that's the case, it's quickly downloaded, installed, and your program launches without your computer rebooting.
You can also have it installed along with Snow Leopard.
Last edited by Chamyky (09/03/09 12:09)
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I forgot to mention, after installing Snow Leopard, I GAINED about 12GB of free space. I went from 19GB free to 31GB free on my hard drive!
Rosetta is less than 2MB in size.
Last edited by EdT (09/03/09 14:09)
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Nice, I heard it frees up space. My 80GB internal HD will be very happy.
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Sounds great. I am also liking how small Rosetta is.
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How is your computer performing day to day tasks, EdT, is it snappier? Faster startup or app launching?
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I installed snow leopard. I have tried the intel build of Oni and it worked fine. I will be trying the PPC version later tonight. Hopefully it wants to work fine for me.
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I forgot to mention, after installing Snow Leopard, I GAINED about 12GB of free space. I went from 19GB free to 31GB free on my hard drive!
Oh my, this is even beyond what they announced. I have to buy Snowy now.
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I gained back about 12 gigs as well, that is even after I installed the dev tools in snow leopard.
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