No Mids for Mac...lame...

Wrong Developer GG... wrong program... wrong use.

Alternatively, try sending Fleeting Whisperer some money. He's trying to code up a Mac Mids to read off the same database.

Blah blah blah crossgrade. You sound like a broken record. Windows XP -> Windows Vista/Windows 7 is an upgrade.

Then there's Windows ME -> No Computer.

UPGRADE!

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From my standpoint, yes, XP to 7 is a serious upgrade. Vista had issues - some perception, some reality. 7, however, is *very* nice. Even some of the little things I'm finding very useful (hauling windows to the side to have them half-maximize, for instance. And having sidebar-less gadgets - I used Konfab... er, widgets on XP for little things I wanted to glance to know, and use them on 7, too, arranged how I want.) Search from the start menu (a FAST search) is a $deity-send, jump lists aren't used much yet, but I can see potential there... the list keeps going on, all the little things add up.

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Mid's is all-powerful - animated hair should be easily possible with it

I won't go that far (yet).

However, I've migrated myself, forcibly, to Windows 7 and Office 2007 at work to force myself to deal with it. So far, most of the Win7 experience has been remarkably pain-free (after remembering that I need to use "Run as Administrator" to install stuff without hassle). I still haven't touched Office 2007 much.

I even migrated CoH over to the box to test it. My only issue was having to move back to a 4:3 screen as opposed to 16:9.

Even my boss, who stayed on Win98 until 2005 did a Win7 install on her desktop and is mostly happy with it so far (a couple of our programs don't work right, but some of those are EXTREME legacy).

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Everyone knows that "ME" meant "[More-]Money[-for-Microsoft] Edition" :P

I always thought that ME stood for "Major Error"

Huh. I haven't even had to deal with running as admin to install things. *shrug*

Office 2007... yeah, that's got a learning curve with where everything moved on the "ribbon." I've used it on and off for a while and... eh, yeah. It'll probably "feel" better on Win7, though, as you'll see the interface more (Paint and Wordpad, for instance, both use the "ribbon" now, as well.)

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....to a discussion of the Win7 upgrade.

Which I luuurrrveee. Seriously. I haven't had a single blue screen since I installed the RC a few months ago. I've got a dual boot 7/XP because at the beginning I was very cautious of 7 and would boot into XP more often than not. Now the only time I boot into XP is when I need to use photoshop.

They do? Urrgh (although this urrgh could be more to to with my inability to fathom it and to miss the older more normal menu systems). Pretty moot as well since I use OpenOffice, The Gimp and jEdit on every machine regardless of OS.

And on topic, isn't Mac OS Linux / Unix based now and if so could you use something like WINE to handle Mids? I'm guessing the answer is no but I've no idea about Macs so I figured I'd ask.

um... If I recall correctly the main thing about mids not being mac usable is the fact that it's uses Microsoft's .net framework.

But there are WINE implementions of .NET. Linky. I haven't tried them myself though so I've no idea (a) If they work with Mids and (b) If you could get them running on an Apple Mac OS.

It's probably easier to deal with in Paint and Wordpad, since there arent' as many options there. (Oh, and Windows Movie Maker, as well - I think that got chopped down a bit, though. I seem to remember being able to edit along a timeline, and couldn't find that at all. *shrug*)

I tend to grab Openoffice as well (oh, and found a ref to a nice site for the next time I do an install - http://ninite.com - makes a custom installer with, say, Firefox, Thunderbird, Openoffice, bunch of other apps I regularly download. One stop shopping, basically.)

BSD, I believe. Not sure if that makes a huge impact or not.

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People still get them somewhat regularly? I think I saw one in my entire time using XP, which was when a dying hard drive had corrupted my OS.

I had to upgrade to Excel 2007 a while back due to the line limits in Excel 2003. At first the ribbon things really bugged me but now I love it. It takes some getting used to but IMHO it's a huge improvement over the old menus.

OS X is indeed a BSD system - its roots are in NeXSTEP.

As for running WINE, Codeweavers is the main corporate sponsor of that project for the Mac. Their general-purpose CrossOver and gaming-specific CrossOver Games for the Mac are nice all-around implementations for OS X (CrossOver Games used to be the best way to run CoH on MacIntels before Paragon created a Ciderized version).

Virtualization is another option, and I've had reasonably good experiences with VMware Fusion (which just came out with an upgrade I need to get). I'll have to try it out with Mids.

Yes, send me money!
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I still wouldn't be able to make any guarantees of any sort on the release date, but I don't mind money

For anyone wondering about the linked page on Paragonwiki tracking the progress of my cross-platform Mids' project, while the most recent version posted was some time ago, my most recent work was actually yesterday, so it's far from abandoned

The closest we've come to getting Mids' to work on Linux/Mac is with Mono, but apparently there are parts of the codebase which aren't supported by Mono, so even that won't work. Until I finish my cross-platform version of Mids' or someone else does something similar (or Mono adds support for whatever it is that make it not work with Mids'), there's no Mids' on Mac.


PS: I would have responded to this topic sooner, but NCSoft mistakenly banned my master account Sunday afternoon, thinking I had committed payment fraud while buying a Xunali storage pane for Guild Wars, and I just got it unlocked today

Really annoying to be banned for 5 days over $8.11 >.>

Ugghhh thats awful.

Hope it doesnt mess with getting into GR beta for you, assuming ya interested in it.