Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: POSER 5 for the MAC!!!

hauksdottir opened this issue on Jan 10, 2003 ยท 24 posts


Quoll posted Sat, 11 January 2003 at 3:01 AM

I'm trying to be positive here, but this just sounds like spin and fluff to me. >Curious Labs currently has a Mac OSX version of Poser 5 up >and running. To fully support the entirely new engineering >standards from Apple, and to ensure the stability of the >Mac OSX version, Curious Labs has decided to extend the >time spent on development and quality assurance. Details on >availability will follow. TRANSLATION: "We have an early alpha version of a port from buggy and incomplete windows code running on OSX, but it is unstable and slow and incomplete, and we dont have any experience with OSX so we still have a lot ot work on and we have no idea when we can get this thing to work." Really, there is nothing new in this announcement. >In addition, Curious Labs is currently developing a new >process and partnership to allow better delivery of >Macintosh products in the future. TRANSLATION: "Even if we did have a Mac version finished we dont have a distribution deal to get it to you." Personally, I will believe it when I see it ship, and even then I'm still not enticed by the new features, and I would be REALLY skeptical that the program would run well at all. I mean really, we know what the windows version looked like...they have no experience with OSX and are admitting it themselves. Do you think the Mac product is going to be stable and fast? You be the judge?