As a new Mac user (Powerbook G4, OS X 10.2.6), I've only just now
discovered the wonderful Graphing Calculator (GC) in OS X. Alas, it only
runs in Classic mode. I quickly sought out the product's home website, in
order to plunk down my money for an OS X version.
Upon going to the website (http://www.pacifict.com),
I have discovered
that the author of this wonderful software has no plans for an OS X ****t,
due to the fact that the classic version depends on an older, non-OS X
graphics technology called RAVE (apparently a form of 3D Quickdraw), which
Apple does not sup****t directly in the OS X environment. He states that,
due to the product's dependence on RAVE, it would be too expensive to ****t
to Cocoa.
(see http://www.pacifict.com/MacOSX.html
for this info.)
Using VersionTracker.com, I've found an alpha version of a Cocoa app
called CurvusProX, which is somewhat like GC, but it is slower and far
from as fully featured as the chargeable version of GC (version 3.2).
I have two questions for the old Mac programming experts out there:
1) Is there another product like GC that is either Carbonized or written
for Cocoa that is more mature than CurvusProX? I'm not talking about
something like Mathematica or Maple (too expensive and not as easy or
functional for my interests as GC), but something very much like GC.
2) If GC's author's reason for not ****ting to OS X is, as he stated, that
the product's dependence on RAVE makes ****ting too expensive and complex,
then how is he ****pping a perfectly usable, virtually identical product
for the Win32 platform?
From my testing with his free Graphing Calculator Viewer for Win32 (simply
an input-and-save-disabled version of the full GC), it is
indistinguishable in appearance and functionality from the Mac product.
Is there a version or ****t of RAVE for Win32 or something? I don't
understand how GC can be so ****table from Classic Mac to Win32 if it's so
difficult to ****t to OS X...
PLM
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