source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 06:05:12 -0800 Subject: Scala on MacOS From: Steve Curtin >Any plans to port the software to MacOS? > >90% of the MIDI studios in the U.S. are Macintosh based so it would seem to >be more widely applicable if yur program was available on the Mac OS. > >I'm afraid there are no plans to port the software to MacOS. Scala is >written in Ada, which makes the program very easily portable, but sad >enough there is no decent Ada compiler for the Macintosh, at least not >at the moment. So, the more people tell to Apple to fund and support >development of an Ada compiler, like it funded porting of Linux, the >better. There is a possible intermediate solution- certain PowerMacs are "DOS compatible", meaning they have a card with a 486 of unknown speed running in parallel to the PowerPC. You can switch from DOS/Windows mode to Mac mode and back with command-enter, and in fact start a job running under DOS and switch back to the Mac while it's running. My Dad has one of these machines and we managed to get a Windows-based mapping program and the Ensoniq ESP2 assembler working on it just fine. Scala should work too since its I/O is pretty generic. Of course if you don't happen to have a Mac with this option it wouldn't do you any good, but from what I hear it's a not uncommon machine around academic computing centers and studios. Steve Curtin Ensoniq Corp Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:15 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA21325; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:14:07 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:14:07 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu