ppc engine dowload problems

[Bill Vlahos]

David,

Congratulations on switching over to Rev. What does your program do and 
who is the audience?

Are you downloading the Mac modules from a Mac or Windows computer? 
While you can develop applications in Revolution on any platform you 
need a Mac to actually build Mac executables. If you develop on any 
other platform all you need to do to build a Mac executable is to 
download the Revolution environment to a Mac and copy over your .rev 
application and build it. If you are doing your development on the Mac 
then you can build for all of the platforms from it. If your goal is to 
build cross platform apps then the Mac is the universal platform.

The floppy disk is dead. Macs haven't had them for 5 years and a lot of 
PCs are starting to not have them either. In addition, a floppy would 
not be big enough to hold Revolution applications. I would move on to 
CDs or direct downloads from a web page.

Perhaps you could indulge your "hobby" and buy a new Mac which can burn 
CDs. :-) Even a lot of PCs can burn CDs too but you won't be able to 
put a Mac executable on it from a CD.

Bill Vlahos

On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 05:42  AM, Glasgow, David wrote:

> So far, I have sold *4* copies of v1.0, which was written in Visual 
> Basic.  Version 2.0 is RR, and therefore cross platform.   Any Mac 
> sales PPC or 68k are therefore entirely theoretical, and possibly 
> non-existent.  I was just mulling over how to distribute it - whether 
> to continue to use floppies or invest in in a CD burner and stick 
> everything on the same disk.
>
> (4 copies might not sound like much, but for the past 10 years my 
> partner insisted she put up with my software development as a harmless 
> but ultimately pointless hobby.  Ha!  )