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- In article <3d8eli$b2o@beta.inc.net>, syndesis@beta.inc.net (John Foust) writes...
- >In article <joyces-2012941539110001@joyces.acm.org>, joyces@acm.org (Shawn Joyce) says:
- >>It seems to me that it should be EXTREMELY simple to port lightwave to the
- >>mac. Microsoft, in their infinite mercy, has deigned to port their
- >>windows api to the mac in the form of 680x0 and (soon if not already) PPC
- >>code libraries. For a mere $2000 your major corporation can buy a copy
- >>and have your windows program ported to the entire mac platform in two
- >>weeks. Selling lightwave at $900 a copy they could make back the time and
- >
- >The Mac back-end of the VC 2.0 compiler has its limits; there are
- >many Win32 functions that are not implemented. For example, no DLLs.
- >Great swaths of functions are not implemented. If you own VC 2.0,
- >check the online docs, there's a function-by-function explanation of
- >which are working and which aren't.
- >
- >If you don't know what's needed to move LightWave's code to another
- >platform, why are you confident it would be "extremely simple"?
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- >From what I hear, the Mac's a real pain to program anyway... :)
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