n beta available for Mac
http://www.jsoftware.com/download/j601nbeta_darwin.tar.gz

Install:
cd ~
tar -xzf [path]j601nbeta_darwin.tar.gz
sudo mv libj601.dylib /usr/lib/.

This version has latest changes and fixes as discussed in the forum.

The default install configuration (and the eventual final release) is that
x. y. u. v. m. n. are spelling errors. Use Edit|Configure|Parameters to
allow x. y. etc. if required (or do 9!:49[1).

Darwin OpenGL (like Linux) uses an offscreen buffer for rendering and probably does not get hardware accelleration. However, copying pixels from the memory buffer to the screen is much faster and overall performance is much better than in the previous beta. In theory the groundwork is all in place for an ambitious user to redefine rc_jzopengl_ to create a hidden window with normal glx/agl/cgl/X11 services and do the rendering there with hardware accelleration. The overhead of copying the pixels to the screen is probably not so high as to justify the additional work required in Java and C to more
directly link the Java screen with the rendering context.

Ctrl+f in an OpenGL demo animates 100 frames and reports frames/second.

There are many changes in the lower level OpenGL support and we recommend
study of the reworked OpenGL Introduction lab for details.

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