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Subject: Re: G5 When??
Author: chrisC • ( ---.in-addr.btopenworld.com )
Date: 01-14-04 18:45
Agree with most of this in an ideal world, OS9 is dead and good riddance, but as Mac users we're already a minority, and probably a fairly troublesome one at that ;-) the last thing we need right now is to give good developers reason to stagger release of Mac vs PC plug-ins, or worse, pull them altogether (Darktree, Messiah ...)
Cinema has never (since I've been using it anyway) had such a great set of plug-ins available, really useful, well supported stuff - it would risk aggravating developers just to get that extra 20% for a minority within a minority.
Mind you, if I scrape together the wedge for a G5 this year expect me to change my tune!
[one thought: As the G5 Cinebench works, I wonder if it would be possible to release a 'bare bones' G5 renderer, ie a version of NET that uses the optimised G5 renderer but has zero support for non-Maxon plugs - this might be a handy stop-gap and give developers an easier transition until CodeWarrior gets released. This might be nonsense, and unworkable, of course, just thinking out loud, I'll stop now...]
Seeyou - C
Anonymous wrote:
>
> ...As for stuff breaking the plug-ins, I can see that is
> probably the biggest problem, Id expect most of the major
> plug-in developers would upgrade. Small parties like Samir,
> or Paul E, I dont know if they could, perhaps they could
> comment...
>
> But thats the way it always has been in the computer
> industry. There are casualties and complainers, but I
> wouldn't want to be running a 386 because the industry didn't
> force change.
> BTW, I cant afford a G5, updates or plugins I want, but I
> wouldnt want to hold back the people who can
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