 | | | XSI Petition | XSI Petition 2005-05-30 - By Erik
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Hehe...with MS starting to develop for Power CPUs with it's Xbox 360,
MainSoft might not have to do a thing if there's a full Mac Win32-port
;-)
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 19:48, Brad Friedman wrote:
> You'd have to talk to the folks at MainSoft regarding OSX support
> before softimage.
>
> http://www.mainsoft.com/
>
> Thats what enables the linux port. If MainSoft doesn't support OSX,
> then Softimage would have to completely re-port XSI over and find all
> new ways to plug up the windows tech dependencies such as COM.
>
> -brad
>
> Alan Jones wrote:
> > On a vaguely related note there's been renewed, and much stronger
> > speculation that Apple are looking at using intel chips.
> > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/23/1052218&from=rss
> >
> > If this happened it may cut down the effort required in a port
> > (perhaps even allow the linux version to work sans porting?)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> > On 5/30/05, Michael Klein <forum@(protected)> wrote:
> >
> > > What could happen when we have an OSX-SI?
> > > Apple probably will buy it and drop the Windows version?!?!
> > >
> > > Just my bad and dark 2 cent ...
> > >
> > > President
> > >
> > >
> > > __ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
> > > From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
Of
> > > Ian Eisenberg
> > > Posted At: Monday, May 30, 2005 5:47 AM
> > > Posted To: XSI
> > > Conversation: XSI Petition
> > > Subject: XSI Petition
> > >
> > >
> > > OK, at the risk of starting some inane platform discussion I am going to
> > > post this to try and get things moving.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have started an online petition to see what kind of interest there is in
> > > an OSX port of XSI.
> > >
> > >
> > > If you don't want it or don't care, please don't bother, I have already
> > > spoken to people at Apple and there is interest in helping things along
but
> > > as always it needs Soft to get the ball rolling.
> > >
> > >
> > > I know there are people here who don't like the Mac, that's fine. I happen
> > > to like XSI a lot as well as Maya and I want to have a choice of what
> > > high-end CG apps I use on my platform of choice. I also see the Mac as an
> > > as-yet untapped (by Softimage) market for XSI. The Mac user base is big
> > > enough that it could provide a pretty rapid infusion of users for XSI.
> > >
> > >
> > > So if you want to add your voice to the petition please go to:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.petitiononline.com/xsi2646/petition.html
> > >
> > >
> > > I will have a more complete site set up soon at www.xsionosx.com
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > Ian Eisenberg
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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