Thinking of buying macbook to test my maxmsp application on OSX and Windows XP

Chris's icon

Hi,

does any one of you tested with success/failure maxmsp on winxp on intel
map (installing winxp with boot camp) ?
Is maxmsp copy protection system working?

I haven't found a clear answer to that question in the lists.

Thanks,
Chris

NB: i'm only interested on reports from testers, don't need any endless
comments.

Scott Fitzgerald's icon

it has worked Great for me so far. Really Really great.

Chris's icon

do you think it is possible to install two windows partitions?
(because in fact, I'm using two PC : one for testing with maxmsp and
generating exe, one for testing in user environment, to find out missing
files).

Chris

Joshua Kit Clayton's icon

PACE copy protection works with a truly booted version of XP (as is
the case with bootcamp). It will *not* work with XP running in a VM,
but MaxMSP runtime will work in a VM (though note that OpenGL is
typically emulated in a VM). Personally, I am successfully using a
MacBook for both OS X and Windows development via boot camp.

-Joshua

Scott Fitzgerald's icon

my guess is it's not possble. you aren't allowed to have multiple
partitions prior to installing boot camp. so multiples of windows are
probaby out as well.

the apple boot camp forums may have a better answer for you though.

vade's icon

while I dont have bootcamp or an intel mac, it is my understanding
that bootcamp only allows for one partition, however, you *could* use
a virtual machine to host multiple XP installs.

Im not certain how Max runs under a VM however.

Id suggest a mac forum for the best solution, like Arstechnica,
macnn, etc.

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Chris's icon

Thanks for the answer

Chris

camille bodart's icon

take a look a this page

camille