Hi Hiro,
Who knows for sure? The Rosetta spec will no doubt evolve over time.
But apparently, as it stands now, it won't support unique G4 or G5
code, nor AltiVec. And everyone seems to think Classic is hosed,
big-time.
I recommend this MacWorld editorial for more info:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/06/intel/index.php
However, if you are right -- if, a year from now when the first
MacIntels ship, Rosetta still doesn't support MIDI, then that's cause
for serious concern.
If MacIntels won't run Classic (and right now, there are strong hints
that they won't) then we will need to start planning ahead, converting
and proofing older Finale files, etc.
If MacIntels can't(/won't) support MIDI in Fin2004-2005-2006, then we
have a big problem.
If it takes Coda three years after the MacIntel launch to release a
version of Finale that runs natively on the new machines -- and
meanwhile, MIDI on old versions of Finale is broken -- then we have an
even bigger problem.
Mac users have already suffered through a situation where Coda released
a version of Finale that did not run natively on any currently shipping
Mac at the time of its release (Fin2003), followed -- a year and a half
later -- by the embarrassingly slow and bug-ridden MacFin2004. I don't
know of any other actively-developed commercial app that took longer
releasing a native OS X version than Finale. Worse, MacFin2005 did
virtually nothing to address the major performance issues that have
plagued the OS X version of Finale since its absurdly delayed initial
release. We are lucky that hardware improvements make running Fin2005
on a 1.42 GHz G4 *almost* as snappy as running Fin2000 on a 266 MHz G3.
(Unless, of course, you need to nudge lyrics, or anything like that.
Then it's like using Fin3.0 on a Mac LCIII.)
By the end of 2007, all shipping Macs will be MacIntels. So Coda have
by Fin2008 *at the absolute latest* to get their act together. I hope
they snapped up a few of those MacIntel developer kits, because they
had better get cracking on this NOW.
- Darcy
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On 06 Jun 2005, at 11:17 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Darcy James Argue / 2005/06/06 / 09:30 PM wrote:
PowerPC apps that have not been recompiled for Intel will run in an
emulation layer on Mactels [sigh, not AGAIN] -- called, in this case,
"Rosetta". Steve has assured us that it's "nothing like Classic" and
will be "completely invisible to the user" and "fast (enough)," but
honestly, who knows whether MIDI will even work under Rosetta?
It will not. Rosetta won't run to kext, which MIDI use.
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>
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