Joe and Richard,
Dropping os9 is not a solution if you build for the K-6 education
market. there are still gobs of system 9 (and even a good number of
8x systems) out there and the publisher and distributors all want the
stuff to be osx and os9 compatible. we even have had school district
reps want to make sure products are os9 capable as they say they will
not buy it unless it can run on all their systems.
macs have this nasty nack of hanging in there and with school
software they dont upgrade that often so if it works and content is
not out of date they just keep using the same system until it dies. I
have even seen quite a few old IIcs and es running out there and my
old basis108 was still running happily in a 2nd grade class on last
report!
Even if a mac is osx capable upgrading is just not an option for most
schools as the first thing to go with budget cuts are the tech people
who do the upgrades, support, new software installs, and training.
Without them you are left with teachers to do this work. if you get
lucky you get a teacher in a school who picks this up, but in k-6 you
tend to not draw the kinds of teachers with these skills like you
might in higher grades.
Sorry, I know its dumb, but just a fact of life you have to live with
if you make educational software, along with making the lowest wages
you can possibly make doing software -- but it is very fun and
rewarding!
I too was waiting on 2.7x for the classic standalone build then it
was billed for 2.8 so i upgraded and now am still waiting. luckily we
just dont use any features past 2.6, so i can keep authoring there,
then use it to make the classic build and move it up to 2.8 to do the
osx and windows builds, but is a bit of a pain and i know that murphy
will come along and bit me with some sort of build specific bug when
doing this sort of bifurcated build process...
I can understand most of the market has dropped os9 and its probably
a royal pain to make the engine to support it, but if its promised
then it should be delivered or at least not promised any more and
some sort of apology given for not coming through. I have emailed rev
and get no response lately on this issue. earlier emails said it was
coming back in 2.7. 2.8 material does make it sound like classic is
included and says it will be there soon in the 2.8.1 standalone builder.
I just want a clear picture of what they are going to do about all
this so i can plan accordingly. I have 3 more applications in the
tubes for this summer/fall and need to start figuring out how i will
be approaching them.
cheers,
Jeffrey Reynolds
On May 18, 2007, at 12:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Joe,
All Macs shipped since 1998 can run OS X.
All Macs shipped since the installation of Intel CPUs can "only"
run OS X.
OS 9 (a good friend of mine) is dead.
People who have not upgraded can not expect to get modern software
for their
OS 9 systemed computers - from you or anyone else. As for a
children's market:
most Macs shipped in a young child's lifetime had OS X installed.
If a parent
bought a Mac for a child, it is probably running OS X.
I, for one, would rather have the Rev team forget about OS 9
entirely and
deploy the resources elsewhere.
Paul Looney
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
[email protected]
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
