At 11:44 -0600 20/11/06, Scott White wrote: >However, we have discovered that some programs on the MAC side -- filemaker >6.0 and Photoshop as of now -- are not running the software natively. The MAC >is using an emulator to run these programs. I have noticed in Filemaker that >some of my calculations are all out of whack and photoshop 7.0 runs real slow >-- almost like it did in virtual PC.
You need 'universal binary' versions of the programs to run them natively on MacIntel hardware. I don't know about FileMaker, but Adobe elected not to produce UB versions until the next upgrade, sometime in 2007. Without a UB, Mac OS X runs the PowerPC code through a code-level translator called Rosetta. You can find out about it here: <http://www.apple.com/rosetta/> However, if software produces incorrect results under Rossetta, then the manufacturer should be informed - and may already have a fix available. -- Steve
