pd and ppc: the final battle..?

[Karl W. MacMillan]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Mark Danks wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: J.R. Schulz [mailto:prison at niu.edu]
> > Subject: pd and ppc: the final battle..?
> > 
> > 
> <snip>
> >
> > ULTIMATELY what i'd like to do, just because i'm curious is 
> > find out if pd
> > would be portable to os x.
> 
>   The answer is yes.  In fact, Paul Ossenbruggen is working on a Mac port.
> So far, he has pd running with really bad sound (lots of clicks and
> glitches, completely unusable), but the UI and control stream stuff works
> fine.  If it works under OS 8 (or 9, whichever), it will work under X.
> Unfortuantely, Paul doesn't have a lot of time to work on it...

Also, John Carmack (of Doom/Quake fame) has ported XFree86 to MacOS X so
it may be possible to run an almost plain Unix version of PD.  Has anyone
tried PD on FreeBSD.  It shouldn't be that big a deal to get going and
there is now a lot more sound card support - including the trident 4dwave
cards. From there MacOS X should be easy since it is FreeBSD based.

Karl

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