Hey, is MacOS 8.x required to view the 16-bit graphics that will be used in EV3? If no, what else is required to view them? Can they be viewed with a PPC-equipped computer with System 7.5.5? Thanks.

MiG

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think on this... EV3 is likely at least 1 year from release. At that time (early August 2001), you'll be wondering if you can run it on a six yearr old system. Now Ambrosia is great for older machine support, but you will likely be a lot happier doing one of two things:

1. Upgrade your machine if you can afford it. I mean it. Don't just go buying accelerator cards and what not. Go buy a $500 iMac; if pricing continues to drop as it has been, iMacs will be right around the $500 mark this time next year. $500 is NOT a lot of money.

2. At least find a copy of MacOS 8.6. Really. Drop in some RAM to bring yourself up to at least 92MB and then upgrade to MacOS 8.6 Everything will be happier.

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Originally posted by MiG:
**Hey, is MacOS 8.x required to view the 16-bit graphics that will be used in EV3? If no, what else is required to view them? Can they be viewed with a PPC-equipped computer with System 7.5.5? Thanks.

MiG

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I would recommend going with Mac OS X. It's Unix based, you know.

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Originally posted by Phoenix155:
**I would recommend going with Mac OS X. It's Unix based, you know.
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Uh. You can't run Mac OS X without a G3/G4 processor and be CERTAIN it will work. You can run it on some other Macs, but you are 'not supposed to'.

And it's not 'Unix' based =p

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Mikee's right. Mac OS X is based on NextStep, a technology Apple acquired a few years ago.

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Originally posted by Knucklehead:
**Mikee's right. Mac OS X is based on NextStep, a technology Apple acquired a few years ago.

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MacOS X shares its Mach Kernel and a lot of NeXT-ish features, but Darwin is completely Unix based. There's FreeBSD under that eyecandy UI, boys. Internet Explorer froze on you? Hit the terminal and kill -9 it. Muhahaha

Read this: (url="http://"http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html")http://www.apple.com...osx/inside.html(/url)

I do pray that Apple is going to make sure that everything defaults to off... otherwise we're going to see an explosion of open, exploitable ports when MacOS X actually ships. (Doot de doo... I'm Joe User, and I'll leave my telnet port wide open and not change my root password! I like to run as SuperUser because I'm a 733+ D00D and all 733+ H@X0R$ always login as r00t)

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Originally posted by foo12:
**MacOS X shares its Mach Kernel and a lot of NeXT-ish features, but Darwin is completely Unix based. There's FreeBSD under that eyecandy UI, boys. Internet Explorer froze on you? Hit the terminal and kill -9 it. Muhahaha

Read this: http://www.apple.com...osx/inside.html

I do pray that Apple is going to make sure that everything defaults to off... otherwise we're going to see an explosion of open, exploitable ports when MacOS X actually ships. (Doot de doo... I'm Joe User, and I'll leave my telnet port wide open and not change my root password! I like to run as SuperUser because I'm a 733+ D00D and all 733+ H@X0R$ always login as r00t)
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What's Unix? I have heard of Linux.... but never of 'Unix'.

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