Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:35 PM, Chris Ryan wrote:

>
> Actually, it's built on the Carbon libraries (there is no such  
> thing as "Apple Pro libraries"--I believe that the "Pro" appearance  
> is just custom graphics, which I can't see that Apple has yet made  
> it available as an option in their developer tools). The Carbon  
> APIs are a subset of the "Classic" Mac OS toolkit and allowed  
> relatively easy porting to Mac OS X.
>

Logic is built using lots and lots of libraries, most of which don't  
have a name (well a filename obviously, but no marketing name) :) ,  
one set of which is Carbon. Nontheless, all Apple Pro applications  
use a set of common libraries (that you might know as "Pro  
Application Support") in order not to reinvent the wheel for each  
application. The looks of Pro Apps are probably the least important  
aspect of these libraries. The whole point of the overhaul in Logic 7  
was to replace Logic-specific Emagic code with generic Apple Pro-app  
code.

>> What's much more likely, is that you can eventually download some
>> hacked illegal version of Intel-OSX that will run on a PC.
>
> Even if this were to happen, I doubt it would work due to driver  
> issues.

That depends on what hardware you use (and how many hackers will  
write appropriate drivers). The Sony PlayStation wasn't supposed to  
run Linux either, but it does. Thanks to some people who have nothing  
better to do than just this sort of thing. :o)

Maurits.

Chris Ryan wrote:

>>> What's much more likely, is that you can eventually download some
>>> hacked illegal version of Intel-OSX that will run on a PC.
>>
>> Even if this were to happen, I doubt it would work due to driver  
>> issues.
>

I wrote:

> That depends on what hardware you use (and how many hackers will  
> write appropriate drivers). The Sony PlayStation wasn't supposed to  
> run Linux either, but it does. Thanks to some people who have  
> nothing better to do than just this sort of thing. :o)

Let me rephrase that.. it's been done already. Intel versions of OSX  
have leaked out before MacIntels came out and there is a Wiki with  
supported PC hardware on the site below. And, as I guessed above,  
people are already working on new drivers.

http://www.osx86project.org/

Maurits.