Lightwave 64 for Mac Leopard

[Rollie Hudson]

Does anyone know of Newtek's plans to take advantage of the 64-bit operating system features that will be available in Mac OSX 10.5 / Leopard? The new OS upgrade is due out next week and I'm running a G5 Quad (2.5 GHz) with 16 Gigs of RAM. I'm looking forward to the power a full 64 bit version of Lightwave will bring on the Mac. Rumors or news anyone?

[Kuzey]

You won't get Chilton to talk until the day of the release.


Kuzey

[Rollie Hudson]

Is Chilton an internal developer on the Lightwave team at Newtek? I'm not looking for any specific info. I only want to know if Newtek is working on a 64 bit version of LW for the Mac - including the G5s. I would think that they are... Hopefully, anyway.

[Steamthrower]

Yes, Chilton is the top Mac dog at Newtek...I guess.

He might reply with an oddly irrelevent YouTube link if you pester him too much ;)

[Chuck]

Chilton is on NewTek's LightWave development team, and the developers are not NewTek's means for making official communications to users and the public. That would be the marketing and management staff, and when there is official news they will convey it. Marketing and Management have mentioned in previous communications that NewTek does plan to provide a Mac 64-bit version sometime after the Mac OS supports fully 64-bit applications. They have provided no additional information to date.

[Mr Maze]

I was just over at the Apple site drooling on the massive amount of new features in Leopard...

[Rollie Hudson]

Thanks Chuck, it's good to hear that Newtek is working on a 64 bit version of Lightwave for the Mac! I'll wait for marketing to make that announcement.

[3dworks]

some kind of official statement with a time line about a 64 bit support under OSX leopard would be very appreciated.

it's important for us working with LW to know if we can see a long term strategy in LW's OSX development or not. other companies are less reluctant to do so. honestly, to see how slow (after an initial beta period of very intense developments!) the current UB version evolves in terms of operating speed (speaking of GUI, loading scenes, objects management in scene editor...) and functionality (still no sasquatch lite...) is not giving me too much confidence in the LW mac future.

markus

[cresshead]

well you have to understand that apple dropped one of the 2 routes to port applications to the mac at the begining of the year which left only one harder route to port a app...many companies were left hi n dry with the other version half way thru porting...so they had to start again in the only way left to them...

so have moan at apple for some apps taking much longer to bring over to osx64bit.

[avkills]

I was just over at the Apple site drooling on the massive amount of new features in Leopard...


Wait until some more point upgrades come out. Leopard is not ready for a production environment. When I get home and I am going to be tempted to downgrade as it is making my life harder at home on my G5 for production stuff, everything else is better though.

-mark