> > Combine that with the fact that you cannot have a MacIntel > > native app (Safari) load Rosetta-emulated plugins (Shockwave) > > it my not yet be the best time to jump, at least as far as > > Director & Shockwave are concerned, but you may have other > > reasons that encourage you to do so. > > Actually Safari on Intel can run ppc plug ins. UB apps have an > option to run native or launch under Rosetta. If you do the latter > some PPC plug ins work.
Yeah, you're right in that Mac users can in fact choose to have Safari launch as a native app (will only load MacIntel-native or UB plugins) or under Rosetta (will only load non-MacIntel-native or UB plugins). Being as the default and likely preferred experience is to have it launch as a native app I gave my reply above. You have to make the choice before launching the application (you must find the Safari application bundle, then select it and press command-I to get the info panel view, on that panel is a checkbox for "Open using Rosetta". So each time you launch you must be sure you know which mode it's in. > I don't know what shockwave does in this config, if it works at all > it probably hellishly slow. I doubt 3D acceleration would work at all. Well, it loads in that configuration just fine and in fact it looks fairly snappy with some of the basic content I've seen. I can give it a quick test with some 3D content, do you perhaps have your own favorite benchmark like content you'd like me to test? I can always test with some internal test content but I figure that any data I provide might be more valuable if it's done against content you folks use and are familiar with. Toss a link my way and I'll let you know what sort of frame rate I get. Note: as of today I'm using one of the Apple "Developer Transition Kit" (DTK) machines and not one of the commercially available Macs (Intel P4 3.6 GHz with 1GB RAM), that may affect performance perceptions and limit direct MacIntel-PPC performance comparisons. But it can at least give us a rough idea of how fast or slow the Shockwave player is within a Rosetta emulated Safari. Cheers, Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Director & the Shockwave Player Adobe Systems Incorporated http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/ ... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
