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yet another Universal Binary question

jbm — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:27:05 +0000

Will the Universal Binary version of MaxMSP also make the $1000 licensing fee for Windows stand-alones a thing of the past? Perhaps it doesn’t make much difference… I don’t know whether the libraries used to port Max originally were more to do with x86, in general, or with Windows specifically. Anyway, just curious about that…

Re: yet another Universal Binary question

kawkhins — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:45:03 +0000

Hi,
also, will they embed ppc64 along with ppc and i386 flavour? I think at
least the maxmsp core and sdk should have all three, to enable users to
build new objects with optimization for each processor.

Regards,
Chris

Re: yet another Universal Binary question

David Zicarelli — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:19:33 +0000

The Intel version has nothing to do with Windows and as such has no
effect on the Windows standalone commercial license fee (non-commercial
standalones have never been subject to any fee). And we have no plans
to support ppc64. Does someone really need to write a Max external
that accesses vast amounts of virtual memory?

David Z.

Re: yet another Universal Binary question

Peter Castine — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:33:54 +0000

On around Feb 2, 2006, at 0:19, David Zicarelli said something like:
> Does someone really need to write a Max external that accesses vast
> amounts of virtual memory?

If we could, we would.

Sorry for responding to a rhetorical question, couldn’t resist.

Of course MacIntel is, for better or worse, the top priority. For
everyone except the Windows folk.

– Peter