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 More options 8 Mar 2007, 18:04
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.apps
From: druck <n...@druck.freeuk.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:04:42 GMT
Local: Thurs 8 Mar 2007 18:04
Subject: Re: Latest news from VirtualAcorn
On 8 Mar 2007 Jeremy Brayshaw <jer...@brayshaw.org.uk> wrote:

> In message <5f7d67c04e.j...@itworkshop.invalid>
>           Jess Hampshire <j...@itworkshop-nexus.net> wrote:
> > Is the OS X version ever going to be released? If so is there a
> > timescale?

[Snip]

> Therefore I am puzzled as to why there is such a reluctance for
> 'porting' (if that's the right word) RO software to Mac. I'd have
> thought it would be logical (i.e more lucrative) to do that /before/
> porting to Windows.

> It's strange, and quite frustrating, to have some RO products on
> Windows and not on Mac. Mac is a smaller market but with a bigger
> willing customer base for such things.

The frustrating thing is the Virtual Risc PC *has* been ported to the Mac,
its just needs a smaller amount of work to finish the user interface and
release it.

It was first previewed on Mac on PowerPC so there was the issue of the JIT
needing to be ported to a different processor which was a big job, but now
MAC is on Intel this task has evaporated as the x86 JIT code can be used.

---druck

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