[Kevin Olson]

Ive just settled into my brand new intel based mac. I cant get maxwell to run at all, I just double click.. and nadda. Is it not compatible with the intels yet or?

[Kevin Olson]

I was having a problem with the download as well. When I would unstuff it I would get a folder containing 0 items. I finally got a good download after several tries. I have also Control Clicked Maxwell and selected "Show package contents" to drop my licesne file into the MacOS folder. Still nothing at all...

[Kevin Olson]

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get this up and running?

[uki]

You are too fast for the software. Most updates for intel macs won't be available natively until summer or autumn: including adobe collection, I guess also maxwell etc. But it should run under Rosetta. Try to launch Rosetta first.... (but I don't know the macintels too well).

If you are too annoyed with all that. Try Cheetah 3D, which runs already native on Xcode based computers.

[philmartin]

This may be a stupid suggestion, and I know nothing about PCs, but, if it is Intel why not try loading the PC version of Maxwell.

[Kevin Olson]

You are too fast for the software. Most updates for intel macs won't be available natively until summer or autumn: including adobe collection, I guess also maxwell etc. But it should run under Rosetta. Try to launch Rosetta first.... (but I don't know the macintels too well).

If you are too annoyed with all that. Try Cheetah 3D, which runs already native on Xcode based computers.

I'll have to look into that.. but as far as I know, Rosetta is totally transparent.

[monochrome]

Even some of Apple's pro software won't run in Rosetta because the software was specifically optimized for the G4/G5. No expert on this, but Maxwell may be heavily geared towards the 128 bit Altivec unit found on these processors.

Try launching it via the Terminal and see what you get:
/Applications/Maxwell/maxwell.app/Contents/MacOS/mxcl

[Kevin Olson]

Terminal results..

dyld: incompatible cpu-subtype
Trace/BPT trap

... bummer

Guess I gotta wait for a UB build. I suppose I could get Virtual PC and run the PC version but that would probably be slow. Better than nothing I guess...

[uki]

There were some earlier discussions about Maxwell and Universal Binary on this forum, but so far NL kept silent about requests. Hope their update won't take as long as the previous ones.

As far as I know there is no Virtual PC as universal binary. This means, you will emulate a pc environment in an emulation of a ppc: 2 Emulations on top of the os, wow. I guess it would throw your speed back to the level of a Pismo PB.

I know it is not part of this forum, but Apple should have informed developers longer before that release and confirmed their commitment to upgrades.

In the end of the day, only the user suffers...

[Kabe]

At least they use gcc, so it shouldn't present huge problems for them to deliver a Macintel version. However, the market for this is probably smaller than the Linux market currently. Not for long, I'm shure.

Kabe

[Kevin Olson]

Makes me wonder if I should have gone with a dual power mac g5....

but then again, maybe not because apple is phasing out the powerpc..

Just need to wait a bit more and I will be in UB heaven hehe

[Kevin Olson]

The g4 version works but the g5 one does not...