| Re: Windows 10 warning [message #109004 is a reply to message #109003] |
Wed, 25 November 2015 07:04   |
mikeaudet
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Registered: February 2009
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BeOs would have been wonderful! That was a complete tragedy.
But, OSX is nice, too. It's built on parts on FreeBSD. The driver API is different, as is the GUI.
I would love to be able to write a driver that worked on both, but it doesn't work that way.
As for using Wine, I suspect it can work, but VST plugins would probably not work at all or poorly. My feeling is that we'd have a better OS experience, but a diminished PARIS experience.
It's probably better to dual boot.
If we had an affordable MAC option that had PCIe slots and we had the source code to the effects subsystem, it would be the obvious choice to write an OSX driver.
As it is, I'm not sure how many people are willing to buy an expansion chassis and a thunderbolt adapter for that chassis to run PARIS. Plus, re-writing the effects subsystem is a huge job.
There are no perfect options here, unfortunately.
The best possible outcome may come if we all refuse to upgrade to Windows 10, refuse to buy a Windows phone, and refuse to buy a Windows tablet. If everyone does this, we can grind the Windows 10 platform to a halt. The executives that engineered this disaster might get fired. We might be able to have a good relationship with Microsoft again.
Where there is life, there's hope.
All the best,
Mike
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