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  1. Re:porting to WINE? by psergiu · · Score: 1 · on Wine Project Frustration and Forking

    I have Photoshop 3.0 on my SGI Indy.

    Motif it's not the stop-gap here - Photoshop for unix is actually the Mac OS 7 version recompiled using some crazy libraries who emulate the Macintosh 7 API using Motif. Yes, there's a menu bar - as a separate thin motif window (when there isn't a opened image) and all the mouse buttons are treated like a single one.

    See here and here.

  2. Re:porting to WINE? by psergiu · · Score: 1 · on Wine Project Frustration and Forking

    I have Photoshop 3.0 on my SGI Indy.

    Motif it's not the stop-gap here - Photoshop for unix is actually the Mac OS 7 version recompiled using some crazy libraries who emulate the Macintosh 7 API using Motif. Yes, there's a menu bar - as a separate thin motif window (when there isn't a opened image) and all the mouse buttons are treated like a single one.

    See here and here.

  3. Re:That would actually be the major reason not to by Hes+Nikke · · Score: 1 · on Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X?
    I would say that Apple would be better serve their own self interests by writing an application compatibility service for Windows XP

    translation: release Yellow Box for Windows into the wild.
  4. Re:Apple please listen...... by linguae · · Score: 1 · on OSx86 Shutdown Rumors Explained

    The difference is that NeXTSTEP was released for vanilla x86 PCs, and was first released in 1993. NeXT stopped selling their 68k hardware at the same time. You can still buy copies of NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP for x86 on eBay these days, and there is a community of *STEP and Rhapsody users. Rhapsody is the closest thing we have to legal OS X for x86, except that the disks are hard to find (I would love to try Rhapsody). In the Apple scenario, however, Apple doesn't want to sell OS X for vanilla x86 PCs, and is using DRM to stop it. NeXT didn't try to lock down their OS to just their machines (they quit selling machines at that point), whereas Apple is fighting tooth and nail to keep OS X tied to the Mac. Jobs has been down this road, but he is taking a different approach this time around.

  5. Re:First Gimp Post by arose · · Score: 1 · on The Adobe Photoshop Elements Crafts Book
    Also, its out-of-the-box UI follows the conventions of every other program in the world, rather than making up its own thing.
    Photoshop on SGI, Photoshop on OS X. The world is a big place isn't it?
  6. Re:Well, assuming this actually *has* leaked... by enosys · · Score: 1 · on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked?

    Rhapsody DR2 seemed fairly compatible. Here's a list of drivers. No, it's like not like you could use whatever you want but you could use some of the most popular hardware and it wasn't locked to a particular chipset or processor. You could also use some OpenStep 4.2 drivers with it.

  7. Re:ARM-chair Punditry by Xyde · · Score: 1 · on Apple Switching to Intel
    Another route Apple could take would be to make an implementation of the Cocoa API which can be compiled into a Windows app, and sell it to software developers as a way to make a more stable, more reliable app that will with just recompilation run on 1) Windows PCs, 2) Apple/Intel PCs, and 3) Legacy Apple/PPC computers.

    What a great idea.