Cage opened this issue on Dec 06, 2010 ยท 71 posts
kawecki posted Mon, 06 December 2010 at 11:35 PM
An example on how things are being done. Since many years ago any new CPU is 64 bits but most people used it with 32 Windows and of course with 32 bit applications. Today more and more people are using 64 bit Windows and the number of 64 bit applications is increasing. From a software point of view, if you have the code is very easy to convert a 32 bit application into a 64 bit, just compile it with the 64 bit switch and all is done. The same program compiled as 64 bit will work the same as the 32 bit version. You can optimize the 64 bit version using some features that exist only in 64 bit mode of the CPU, in this case the 64 bits version will be faster than the 32 bit version. In either case you can release 32 and 64 bit versions at the same time and it was been done by many apps since many years. Now back to Poser, what did some genius of Poser? The genius decided to make a part of Poser using Flash in times when 64 bit CPU and Windows already existed. What happened, until today 64 bit Flash did not exist, Abobe did not make 64 bit version yet, probably because they inherited a crap done by Macromedia based on the Microsoft AcitiveX crap that was removed from 64 bits Windows (Windows 3.1 or DOS doesn't work in 64 bit mode CPU) Which was the result? Poser64 is a patch of 32 and 64 bit glued software and will continue to be until Adobe releases a 64 bit version of Flash or Poser get rid of Flash and do the respective part in a conventional way and of course in 64 bits.
Stupidity also evolves!