it's not a solution anyway, Rosetta 2 will be dropped in several years.fsw wrote:After reading a few reviews about M1 hardware/software I suspect that (with the help of Rosetta 2) PureBasic compiled x86 apps might work just fine.
Big Sur and PureBasic
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Re: Big Sur and PureBasic
Are you sure about this?deseven wrote:it's not a solution anyway, Rosetta 2 will be dropped in several years.fsw wrote:After reading a few reviews about M1 hardware/software I suspect that (with the help of Rosetta 2) PureBasic compiled x86 apps might work just fine.
If this is true then the only way for PureBasic to serve future Macs would be to add another backend.
Now it has ASM and JS... will LLVM be next?
Or if it's easier, clone the JS backend and modify it to export C or Go...
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Alfred Hitshock
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@fsw: Do you mean SpiderBasic as „JS backend“?
Fred said he is already working on ARM target. Maybe that is the M1 support?
Fred said he is already working on ARM target. Maybe that is the M1 support?
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Yes Danilo, this is what I meant.Danilo wrote:@fsw: Do you mean SpiderBasic as „JS backend“?
In my simple mind SpiderBasic is another backend of the same core PureBasic uses.
Thanks for the link, didn’t know that.Danilo wrote: Fred said he is already working on ARM target. Maybe that is the M1 support?
Wasn’t in this forum in several years, so I missed a lot probably.
Besides an ARM backend the TouchBar UI needs to be addressed as well.
As far as I remember PureBasic cannot handle macOS devices with TouchBar properly because of internal workings of the PureBasic UI core.
(Maybe changes were made in my absence, I don’t know)
Also the ODBC interface is broken after PureBasic versions 5.4x...
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Alfred Hitshock
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As sure as you can be when talking about Apple. First Rosetta was released in 2005 and deprecated in 2009, this time Apple says the whole transition will take "about two years", so probably with 2 years of support on top it will be the same 4 years in total.fsw wrote:Are you sure about this?
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Good point.deseven wrote:As sure as you can be when talking about Apple.fsw wrote:Are you sure about this?
IMHO you are spot on with this as well.deseven wrote: First Rosetta was released in 2005 and deprecated in 2009, this time Apple says the whole transition will take "about two years", so probably with 2 years of support on top it will be the same 4 years in total.
Apple has a vision, and sometimes they follow this vision no matter how big the collateral damage.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
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Alfred Hitshock
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@wilbert
I wonder if you could install macOS Big Sur on a VM using Parallels Desktop?
I successfully installed Catalina on a VM in my mid 2010 Mac pro
have not used the Mac much since I bought a x64 PC with Windows, but I think I will give it a try
I wonder if you could install macOS Big Sur on a VM using Parallels Desktop?
I successfully installed Catalina on a VM in my mid 2010 Mac pro
have not used the Mac much since I bought a x64 PC with Windows, but I think I will give it a try
Re: Big Sur and PureBasic
Should go.
With me High Sierra runs as VM under Parallels
With me High Sierra runs as VM under Parallels
My Projects ThreadToGUI / OOP-BaseClass / EventDesigner V3
PB v3.30 / v5.75 - OS Mac Mini OSX 10.xx - VM Window Pro / Linux Ubuntu
Downloads on my Webspace / OneDrive
PB v3.30 / v5.75 - OS Mac Mini OSX 10.xx - VM Window Pro / Linux Ubuntu
Downloads on my Webspace / OneDrive
Re: Big Sur and PureBasic
Many report that Rosetta 2 is not an acceptable solution.fsw wrote:After reading a few reviews about M1 hardware/software I suspect that (with the help of Rosetta 2) PureBasic compiled x86 apps might work just fine.
Large number of software packages won't install/not compatible or if you mange to get something working it could run up to 50% normal speed or be sluggish and unresponsive.
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Any sources for that? I saw completely different reports.Paul wrote:Many report that Rosetta 2 is not an acceptable solution.
Large number of software packages won't install/not compatible or if you mange to get something working it could run up to 50% normal speed or be sluggish and unresponsive.
Re: Big Sur and PureBasic
My Parallels was very old so I tried it with the free version of VMware Fusion.jack wrote:@wilbert
I wonder if you could install macOS Big Sur on a VM using Parallels Desktop?
I successfully installed Catalina on a VM in my mid 2010 Mac pro
have not used the Mac much since I bought a x64 PC with Windows, but I think I will give it a try
I got BigSur running. A bit slow but it works.
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Windows (x64)
Raspberry Pi OS (Arm64)
Raspberry Pi OS (Arm64)
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Just do a search for 'M1 honest review' and instead of getting a review sounding like Apple gave the exact same script to each 'fan boi' reviewer telling them to praise the new hardware, you see reviews like this...deseven wrote:Any sources for that? I saw completely different reports.Paul wrote:Many report that Rosetta 2 is not an acceptable solution.
Large number of software packages won't install/not compatible or if you mange to get something working it could run up to 50% normal speed or be sluggish and unresponsive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoo ... d05135786a
https://mspoweruser.com/too-good-to-be- ... 1-laptops/
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Um... You're talking about biased reviews while posting a link to a website called "mspoweruser" which mostly mirrors the Forbes article author's twitter? Interesting.Paul wrote:Just do a search for 'M1 honest review' and instead of getting a review sounding like Apple gave the exact same script to each 'fan boi' reviewer telling them to praise the new hardware, you see reviews like this...
Well, there is a community list of app compatibility with Big Sur/M1 in case you want to see real data collected by real users.
UPD 26.11.20: here is another project that tries to keep track of the current state of things - https://isapplesiliconready.com/
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Best of luck thendeseven wrote: Um... You're talking about biased reviews
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I don't think you understood me correctly, but sure, let's not dive into that.