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Intel Mac
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15 Jun 2006 |
Just placed order on new shiny Intel Mac and they told me it will arrive on tuesday to local Apple shop. After that I’ll focus more on Mac OS X version because it’s currently a little bit behind, but still it is a very important platform beside Windows and Linux. Pixel for Intel Macs will be more stable and faster as x86 is already more mature. Current one for PowerPC is quite buggy compared to x86 versions, but that’s because I’m running Mac OS X in emulator only on Pegasos G4 computer. Stay tuned and prepare for new Pixel running on Intel Macs.
Update: First screenshot of Pixel running on Intel Mac is available here. From first benchmarks it is up to 10x faster than PowerPC version (compared to G4 1Ghz or Rosetta).
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65 Responses to Intel Mac
Epeli
June 11th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Hope you don’t leave Linux versions behind now
Administrator
June 11th, 2006 at 10:00 am
No worries, Linux is and will be my main development platform. Pixel will always get strong support for mainstream platforms including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Others are considered experimental.
Donald
June 13th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Greate news, Pavel !
I can’t wait to see 
Nuno
June 14th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Any idea when Pixel will be available for Intel Mac’s ? And will it be Beta 7 ?
Chris
June 15th, 2006 at 3:34 am
This is awesome news, Pavel. Thank you for taking the time to work on this awesome package.
Johan Nilsson
June 16th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Nice When could we expect to try the new beta witn intel support for macosx ?
Krs
June 16th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
When it will be available for osx 86?
Administrator
June 16th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Next release (Beta 7) will include version for Intel MacOSX as well. This should be available shortly.
Aymeric
June 17th, 2006 at 9:33 am
I hope that the eComStation version, on which the whole OS/2 community has placed hope, will continue to see further development. Windows users do have commercial alternatives, eCS users do not…
Johan Nilsson
June 20th, 2006 at 5:28 am
No beta 7 with intel support yet for macos x.
Administrator
June 20th, 2006 at 8:55 am
First preview of Beta 7 for Intel Macs is already in Downloads section. Official release will follow shortly beside all other operating systems.
Chris
June 20th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Thank you, Pavel!!! Will give it a go.
Krs
June 24th, 2006 at 1:54 am
Great, the osx-intel preview run fast on my macbook. But crash quickly too…
Administrator
June 24th, 2006 at 8:52 am
Yes, it may crash, it was ported to Intel Mac few days ago. Please wait for official Beta 7 releases.
Johan Nilsson
June 26th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Hi
Just bought pixel.
Cant w8 for the beta 7 for MacIntel and hope that it doesnt crash like the one that is there now, by the way there isnt any download for macintel version for the one that bought pixel.
Johan Nilsson
June 29th, 2006 at 6:46 am
How far away is the Beta 7 ? for macos x intel?
Administrator
June 29th, 2006 at 9:59 am
Few hours, please wait
Johan Nilsson
June 29th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Hehe =) .. i have waited a few hours now =) .. just kidding
take your time!
Zager
June 29th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Thank you for the Mac OS X testing! I have PowerPC Mac mini, and hope it will work too
Johan Nilsson
June 29th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
It has to be close now….
Administrator
June 29th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Please be patient, still few things to finish and still few bugs to catch
Johan Nilsson
June 29th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Hehe, i will be awake ALLL night to wait for the release.
=)
Keep up the good work!
Johan Nilsson
July 1st, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Hope im not stressing you.
I have made my first things with pixel, its simple image editing and it works great as long as you dont touch the text tool on the mac.
I just wonder if its any rect. tool with rounded corners? i tried to do a rect. with rounded corners but i couldnt find such a tool.
Administrator
July 1st, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Texttool should be better on MacOSX, it had some problems in past but that was in time I was using MacOSX in emulator only.
There’s no rectangle with rounded corners, there’s only rectangle selection with rounded corners, after selecting you can fill it with any color. Have a look at top toolbar for roundness or feather.
HDRPixel
July 3rd, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Is beta7 for windows coming also?
Looking forward to it!
Administrator
July 3rd, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Yes Beta 7 will come for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, others will follow later.
Johan Nilsson
July 3rd, 2006 at 7:31 pm
So you meen that Beta 7 is commin today ? You said so in the forum ?
Administrator
July 3rd, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Yes Mac Intel version will appear today in members area as it is still missing.
Rui Campos
July 3rd, 2006 at 10:41 pm
You could also put at least a new Linux release on the members area too, since it is your main platform it should be the easier to build, no ?
Johan Nilsson
July 4th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Have you put the mac intel version there yet? .. i cant see it
Johan Nilsson
July 6th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Anything new?
Nuno
July 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
When will a stable Beta7 be available for Intel Mac’s ?
Johan Nilsson
July 8th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Is it good weather were you are to ? =) admin
flowrobot
July 8th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
any news on beta 7? it was only a week away, then a few days, then a few hours … it seems to be getting exponentially closer, lol. i really wants PNG support
Administrator
July 9th, 2006 at 12:10 am
I’m sorry I have been busy with Pixel and being offline most of the time. I will do my best to release it tommorrow. PNG support is now really better, it supports even 16-bit PNGs, embedded color profiles etc.
Johan Nilsson
July 9th, 2006 at 8:47 am
GREAT!!!
Johan Nilsson
July 9th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
So we may see a beta 7 today ? =)
Administrator
July 9th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Yes I’ll release it anyway today even if it’s not fully finished. I think I will now release more often so people can see progress and report bugs. That should speed up development.
Johan Nilsson
July 9th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Well thats nice, but maybe you should have a “stable” release also ?
I must say that what you have done here is a REALY good app, and you made something that Adobe never will do real crossplatform ( okey they have apps for mac and windows).
When Pixel32 goes 1.0 Final you will be rich =) Great job
flowrobot
July 9th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
“I’m sorry I have been busy with Pixel and being offline most of the time. I will do my best to release it tommorrow.”
thanx!
Administrator
July 9th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
Guys you must have been watching this page 24 hours a day!?
flowrobot
July 10th, 2006 at 12:35 am
pretty much
Administrator
July 10th, 2006 at 12:47 am
Preview of Intel Mac version with proper PNG support is now available for those impatient in members area. Please still give some time for official release and remaining bug fixes.
Johan Nilsson
July 10th, 2006 at 7:07 am
It still crashes when closing and i cant register it
DoNaLd
July 11th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
I’ve to issue with registering. It still crashes.
Administrator
July 11th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Yes there were 2 other issues with Intel Mac version, now they’re resolved, update will be available tommorrow.
HDRPixel
July 13th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Is beta7 for windows going to be available soon in the downloads page?
Administrator
July 14th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Yes of course Windows version will be available too. To shorten delay between releases I decided to update Beta 6 builds in members area with all bug fixes made till now. You can check bug tracker what’s fixed.
Rui Campos
July 14th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
All I can say is that it is taking too long for you to release a new version. Pixel 1.0 Final should be out by now. Eck even 1.1 should be out by now.
Please update the members area with recent builds of the major systems such as Windows, Linux and Mac. And let people check what has been done in such a long period of time.
Also, I truly hope that the new build comes with proper HDR and proper EXR file support, else I will be insane. I’m waiting for it for some months now and nothing is out. I bought Pixel because it would feature this and work in Linux natively, if I can’t have this there is no point on using Pixel.
Hope you get this weekend to work on this and realase the so much delayed builds.
Administrator
July 14th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
There’s not only HDR and EXR, you should checkout Bug Tracker to see what bugs and how many of them are fixed and closed in this release.
Slapo
July 14th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Now only to know when we can expect those builds to be online
Repeat after me:
“I’ll always put an estimation of how long it is until the builds are available to avoid silly requests of it.”
“I’ll always put an estimation of how long it is until the builds are available to avoid silly requests of it.”
…
Administrator
July 14th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
It was estimated to be available few days ago already, but I still had feeling to fix few other bugs… well, as much as possible
Releasing is not easy as well, now when I’ll patch everything with all fixes I have to actually test it on more computers and then package and upload to server.
Johan Nilsson
July 15th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Keep up the good work i love your app!
Josh
July 16th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Keep plugging along, Pavel. You are only one man (with some help from others). Keep fixing and we’ll keep testing!
Rui Campos
July 17th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
I’m sure you fixed alot of things, but so much delay lets everyone impacient.
I also build some applications, like Blender and so forth and I build for AMD, Intel, with and without SSE and so forth in just the time it takes gcc to compile them. Then packs it into deb files and reloads my Ubuntu repository. It is just a question of loosing one full day to build decent building scripts, its is quite easy and you save alot of time, meaning you can release new packages in no time.
I’m sure the installer can be somewhat problematic, but since it is also your own creation you could also adjust it to build and package in no time.
This way everyone would be happy, you that don’t have to waist big time to make new packages and us that would have more regular packages.
Johan
July 18th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Yea some kind building script that automatically made debs would be wonderful.
Administrator
July 18th, 2006 at 10:15 am
I have build scripts that make it easier, but it needs a lot of testing after building, since Pixel is mostly developed on Gentoo and then built on few other platforms (untested while developing). I can’t make .deb packages as I’m not using Debian/Ubuntu, those packages are made by 3rd party.
Frank
July 18th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Hi Pavel,
there is no magic in building packets for Debian (.deb). I’m running Archlinux (.tar.gz) and go the opposite way in installing bibblepro, which is as .deb file available and ist installed by a shell script into my Archlinux system.
There is a short howto available for building .deb files (http://www.planet-interkom.de/frank.ickstadt/rdesktop/rdesktop.html). If you don’t have a debian system, it’s no problem, too. The .deb files are just compressed with ar.
Johan Nilsson
July 18th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
WOW you got a new build app and it doesnt crash on exit !!! Great work!
Administrator
July 18th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Ok, I’ll have a look at .deb files but I will always need extra time for that, which I can use for bugfixing. It’s better for me if somebody with Debian system can package Pixel and even test if it works correctly.
And regarding Intel Mac, yes that annoying bug was fixed
Rui Campos
July 19th, 2006 at 9:47 am
New build, but still nothing changed in both HDR and EXR formats, still fails. Guess I’ll have to wait 3 more months to check if this is working by then.
Meanwhile here you have a link to a nice EXR file for testing:
http://www.mpii.mpg.de/resources/hdr/calibration/sample.exr
And a nice HDR too:
http://www.debevec.org/Probes/rnl_probe.hdr
None of the EXR files I tried to use on it load. HDR files do load, but its all garbage, nothing more, nothing that even resembles the image.
Have fun.
Rui Campos
July 19th, 2006 at 9:49 am
New build, but still nothing changed in both HDR and EXR formats, still fails. Guess I’ll have to wait 3 more months to check if this is working by then.
Meanwhile here you have a link to a nice EXR file for testing:
h**p://www.mpii.mpg.de/resources/hdr/calibration/sample.exr
And a nice HDR too:
h**p://debevec.org/Probes/rnl_probe.hdr
Eck, none of the EXR files I tried to use on it load. HDR files do load, but its all garbage, nothing more, nothing that even resembles the image. I think you didn’t test this.
Have fun.
PS: Previous submit failed, due to links
Administrator
July 19th, 2006 at 11:25 am
New builds are just updated and fixed builds for Beta 6, new release (Beta 7) is still in progress.
Rui Campos
July 19th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Oki doki.
Ryan
September 30th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
The only way I could get this is if it could open and save to PSD.
Is this / will this be possible with pixel?
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