[aprssig] MacAPRS 3.7.7 Carbon_Release on Core Duo

[Dennis Hudson]

Being lucky to have one of the new Intel based Core Duo MacBookPro  
laptops I can happily report that MacAPRS 3.7.7 Carbon_Release works  
in Rosetta (PowerPC code translation). The preference file gets  
corrupted the first time you run it, but it appears to accept the old  
information when re-entered into the Stations Settings window.

It loafs along at 6-10% CPU usage and is at 100mb of real memory and  
500mb virtual memory connected to the full APRS-IS feed for about 2  
hours with about 12K stations. Windows open and close quickly,  
station list sorts are snappy.

This leads to the only bad side of this report. If you upgrade to the  
new processor Macs you can no longer use Classic(OS 9) programs so  
we're stuck with a 1.5 year old product. The enhancements and  
upgrades to MacAPRS 3.8.2 (Classic) are not available anymore.

http://www.n2lbt.com/MacAPRS_no_more.png

I'm sure asking for a universal binary is out of the question, but a  
current release for MacAPRS in the Carbon framework would be great.


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Dennis Hudson, N2LBT
Sysop APRSALY
http://neaprs.no-ip.org:14501
http://www.neaprs.org
Albany, NY