CatDV 9.x on a Mac G5 computer?

[Matthew Stamos]

What OS?

[Jason Levy]

Thanks for asking. Out of the office until Wednesday. Will check when I get back. Just got off the phone with someone from Squarebox. It’s supposed to work.. but doesn’t.

[Bryson Jones]

It’s a change to Apple’s code for PPC machines.

I got the fix from Rolf and it worked.

“right click on the application and show contents, then copy the Contents/Resources/Java/libXXXX.jnilib files from b8 to b9”

I used the jnilib from a copy of 9.0b8 and dropped it into b9 (when I saw the PPC thing break) and it worked. I’m not sure if the beta is posted but if you wanna try that, email me and I’ll hit you back with the file and we’ll see if that gets you rolling as a hack.

Love the old stuff myself but there comes a time when a new mini looks pretty good. 😉

bryson

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[Jason Levy]

Thanks for that Bryson,

We’ll give it a try. It seems to happen on certain G5’s and not others.

jason

[Rolf Howarth]

That trick should no longer be necessary. Early versions of 9.0 didn’t support PowerPC processors but I thought we fixed it so the current version should work. We don’t test it against ppc though, which is why there may be residual problems and the requirements say Intel processor is needed.

[Jason Levy]

We have a number of old G5s (who doesn’t?) I find that some of them work and some don’t. I have not been able to determine what the difference is.