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While much emphasis is being put on the Intel/Mac, the fact is that most
Intel/Mac users are new users and not exactly a swarm of previous Mac
users. It will be a long time before the PPC machines leave the scene,
and a long time before Intel/Mac outnumbers PPC Mac.

Hello boys! Just looking to see what happens....

'Intel/Mac users are new users' ... Yes there is a lot of Windows users that now ride MacMini, but also older Mac users have emigrated to the Intel box..

Looking forward to check PB4 Mac...

Have a nice time to you all!
SEO

I just ordered an Intel iMac 20" with 1 gig of ram, last week, still waiting for the comfirmation of my payment, which takes about 3-4 days, Apple says my Mashine will then be ready for shipping in about 9-10 days because they have some trouble getting all the parts, with some luck i might receive an intel Mac in the next 2 weeks, I'm really looking forward to my Mac, since I'm already a Linux user and don't use Windows very much anymore I'm already away from this **** and am awaiting one of the most gorgeous computers ever.

I ride 2 Mini boxes... also 1GB ram and it works well, but 'old apps' that runs under Rosetta is some sluggish.. So when PB4 for MacIntel then..... I can't run PB so i give that up.. Have to play with Xcode...

Regards,
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Porting PB to Intel Macs should be straight forward, probably even just recompiling the Linux version and adding Mac-O support would run, Porting the gadget system is probably harder and porting quads and so on to PPC will be realy hard i guess. Though because Fred was more experienced when writing the PPC version he might have some hidden features already done^^
Whatever will be the result, I'm 100% sure it will be great.

Just received my 20" iMac a few hours, ago it's absolutley great so far and surfing trugh the net with such a big screen is a lot of fun...
Had some trouble installing XCode first because he didn't put it in the Applications directory but spotlight solved the problem and everythings seems to be working. i'm gonna look into PB for mac and try wether I can get it working under rosetta, maybe there are some tricks to convince it^^

Thread is almost a year old, still no hint of an Intel compatible Mac version of PB, let alone the 4.0 version of PB for Macs.

I would really like to pick up a new Mac, but held off last fall due to PB not being compatible with the new Macs. Almost Spring and I would like to still grab a Mac, but it looks like I have to go back and get BMax just to have a language to use on Macs. I know BMax is questionable for Linux, but it appears the Mac version is very stable.

*sigh* Been a couple of years since the promised upgrade of the 3D features for PB.

I can remember the good old days when PureBasic was actively being developed. So sad to see it in its current state where it is neglected and ignored.

AFAIK Fred and the team have been working hard on Linux and Mac versions of PB.

Please remember it's hard work and there are lot's of changes from 3.xx to 4.xx !

Still none of the 4.xx versions are yet bug free...

Still none of the 4.xx versions are yet bug free...

Yeppers, why I am still sticking with 3.94.

I know its hard work, but the progress on PB isn't what it used to be, and that is sad no matter what the reasons are behind it.

Hi,
Just looking in and say hello to you all Mac users!
Yes, also waiting ... In a time when the Mac user group is expanding as never before! More and more people understand that they now also could run more than just Mac OS X on a Macintosh.. Looking forward to begin test the Mac beta version of Purebasic!!

Now it is our turn. Let us check and evaluate the alpha version, to bring it soon into beta and release status. We need to feedback to Fred, that there is a PB Mac community.

CSAUER wrote:Now it is our turn. Let us check and evaluate the alpha version, to bring it soon into beta and release status. We need to feedback to Fred, that there is a PB Mac community.

Are you saying that there is an alpha out?

If so, how do I participate?

Q*bert wrote: Are you saying that there is an alpha out?

If so, how do I participate?

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=26468

I just switched to Mac OS X some weeks ago. PB 4.0 runs very
slowly on my MacPro, even the executables run at low speed.

There is almost no traffic in this Mac-OS forum. Will we have an
Intel (native) version of PB4 that doesn't need Rosetta this year?

USCode wrote:IMHO, based on the potential to gain additional users, the order should be:
1. Windows
2. Mac OS X
3. Linux
Mac OS X users are used to paying for software and that is the platform for the most potential growth but based on the *existing* user base I understand how Fred would want to work on the Linux version first.

I think you are in some misconception here.... It used to be that MacOS users are used to buy the software while on MacOS Classic. And even then people would look elsewhere for options. While in the same time for half of Mac use in history there was no Internet available. (I worked on 6502, 68000, PowerPC and now Intel apples). Internet appeared during switch from 68000 to PPC. Even at that time there was a lot of free software for Mac.

Nowadays it is different OSX is basically unix simillar to Linux not anymore Pascal core as in MacOS classic (personally I see it as a nicer unix shell and couple of quite good graphical libraries and built in applications that work fine and are included based on quite good hardware). For others that are not deeply in computers - Mac may look different. But again there are some Linux Windows Managers that closely resemble Mac approach and are not Apple - thus I doubt really original Apple idea. Further more Darwin is also not really original either. Most of the current software comes from unix or is adopted from unix world to work with new MacOSX subsystem. So plenty of software is available for free or like in PureBasic which I would rather call supportware. It will not be long until this wide Mac myth changes.

I do not mind paying for PureBasic. I believe this is product that is promissing for the next phase of need, as majority of industry is still fascinated with virtual machines which is nice but somewhat wrong path for all different needs. And I will donate more to this project in the future because I believe it is right track to go, not because I am Mac user that is used to pay for software.

I see major PB's major value as x-platform development system, even if implementation is slightly different, I do not see any harm in that. Every platform needs specifics to make applications user friendly.

MacOSX user used to buying software - it is a myth that fades.

Linux has intrisic problem with being client machine. Linux PB IMHO largest value will be writing servers as Linux is wonderful server platform. Yet of course with new Linux distributions geared towards client use PB will gain momentum as client development on Linux. I will support that line too as other Linux development options albeit plenty really lack some lighter approach to development teh PB offers.

Sorry for longish post. But I felt contributing my 2c to the discussion.

(I am not Mac freak, I use all OS - Win/Lin/Mac)