I am an Apple fan with a itch to scratch called Linux. I've tried being without a Mac, and I can't do it, so I'm left with running Mac and Linux on the same machine.
The past year has been a weird and rocky detour in my computing journey. I have been interested in computers since an early age, and at 16 I got my first Windows machine – and then machine after machine from there on, usually low-end ones and other peoples castoffs.
Find games for macOS with Gamepad (any) support like Wrong Floor, Tidetale, Project Kat, Caves of Qud, This is your life now on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace. Sure, the most recent FIFA game is not available on Mac, but if you truly love the beautiful game, Football Manager 2020 can scratch that itch. Verdict: Not Demanding System requirements: A a 64-bit processor, macOS 10.11.6, 1.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 7 GB HD space, Intel GMA X4500, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT or AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon HD.
The turn of the millennium saw me enter the Mac world, and it would be the best 10 years of my life.
Leaving Macs Behind
Call it a blip, call it what you like, but late 2009 saw me leave the Mac world in a venture to try out Linux. I ended up using Windows and Linux on a variety of low-end PCs. I am actually writing this on a ThinkPad 240x– a small 10″ laptop introduced in 2000 – under Linux Mint LXDE while my iBook G3 is repairing disk permissions.
I am glad to say that I returned to the iBook G3.
I severely regret selling my 867 MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 model. It was a little workhorse and ran Leopard very well. However, with my wife firmly attached to the iBook G3, I am awaiting the arrival of a 500 MHz Pismo PowerBook G3 to continue my Mac crusade. I must say that I am very excited. The PowerBook G3 range was one Apple's best and most reliable.
Over the past few months I have written a number of articles from within my Linux detour, and some of they may be a little contradictive of each other. Even though Linux has come a long way in the past few years and is more user-friendly than ever before, it is still a massive learning curve, even for a veteran computer user like myself.
Yes I do love it, because it is a good OS, because of its nerdiness, and because it is one step further from Microsoft, but for a one-time hard-core Mac devotee, it just doesn't have the finesse to pull me away from the Mac platform. (As for Windows, we won't even touch on that. Windows XP might be one of Microsoft's best versions, but at the end of it all, it's still Windows – an archaic OS built on out-of-date technology sitting on a terrible file system wrapped in an ugly GUI.)
Does it matter what OS you use? Yes, despite Firefox and most of the everyday software I use – including Audacity, GIMP, AbiWord, and OpenOffice – being available on all three platforms, it's the general feel of Mac OS X that makes you a Mac user. While Ubuntu is close to Mac in both build and looks, it just isn't Mac. Small annoyances – or just differences – become large ones.
Find the OS that is right for you, and for me OS X is it.
Does it matter what OS you use? Yes, despite Firefox and most of the everyday software I use – including Audacity, GIMP, AbiWord, and OpenOffice – being available on all three platforms, it's the general feel of Mac OS X that makes you a Mac user. While Ubuntu is close to Mac in both build and looks, it just isn't Mac. Small annoyances – or just differences – become large ones.
Find the OS that is right for you, and for me OS X is it.
If you have a PC and don't want to run Windows, Linux is a serious alternative. Ubuntu on a 700 MHz PC swings along very nicely, and with fantastic hardware support, most things work out of the box.
Back to the Mac
For me, the step back to Mac is a sigh of relief. I can sit back in my comfy zone, back with what I know best.
However, the detour has taught me Linux is not to be sniffed at. It is seriously giving both Windows and Mac a run for its money and has become a significant alternative.
Running Linux on PowerPC hardware is not as straightforward as on Intel hardware, nor is it as supported as one would like, but it is available, and as more and more Mac users with G3 and G4 machines get left behind because newer versions of OS X do not support their hardware, PowerPC Linux is becoming a real alternative.
Apple may have left the PowerPC platform behind, but it is wide open for open source developers to pick up and run with it. For me, a dual-boot system with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and version 8 or 9 of Ubuntu or Xubuntu will do nicely on my forthcoming Pismo PowerBook, giving me the best of both worlds.
Don't panic. As one of Apple's dedicated users and a lover of older hardware, I am not about to turn my back on the Mac platform again. I'm not sure why I left initially, but I'm back.
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25 September, 2012
Features
FLAC support
Dedicated Video View - Display video decks alongside the virtual audio decks
Serato Video Delay Compensation
This will allow one to offset the master video feed from the audio when there are sync/latency issues
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Set this option if you don't want to change FX manually. Transitions will change upon every track load. There are three options.
- On/Off - Loading an audio or video track to the virtual decks will trigger a new transition to be selected
- Random - When on, a transition from the transitions list will be randomly selected, otherwise the transitions will be selected sequentially from the list of transitions
- Next - Forces a new transition to be used. If Random is selected, the transition will be randomly selected
Media Crate
Any video content stored in the 'Media..' crate will automatically load to Serato Video when you load audio tracks with no associated video track. This crate is created automatically when Serato Video is started or if the user manually creates a crate called 'Media..'. It is positioned below the 'All Video..' smart crate.
Options for controlling the media crate behavior are located in the Serato Video widget panel (you will need to expand the fader options (the 'F' button)). There are 3 different options.
- On/Off - Loading an audio track (with no associated video) will trigger a new video track load
- Random - Any video load from the 'Media..' crate will be randomly selected
- Next - Forces a new video load from the 'Media..' crate. If Random is selected, the loaded video will be randomly selected
- New Numark NS6, NS7 and V7 Mac drivers for Mountain Lion
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GUI fixes
- Fixed bug where a large grey box outline would be visible when doing a drag and drop. This only affected certain OSX versions such as 10.6.7 32 bit
- Fixed bug where the 'add cue point' buttons in the offline player weren't showing as enabled upon track load
- Fixed bug where the 'view' button would incorrectly cycle through an easter egg view
- Fixed bug where pressing enter on a bpm edit box field (library), when the value is unchanged, would not close the edit box
Library and Metadata fixes
Improved iTunes XML importing
This is to address the issue where iTunes library importing would fail when the library contained non utf-8 encoded strings. These formatting errors are an issue with iTunes, but this fix will now handle these string encoding errors and allow the entire library to be imported successfully.
- ID3 scanning by dragging a crate to the button now works
- Fixed bug where ITCH could create a _ScratchLIVE_ folder on external drives
- Fixed a crash when using Live Playlists
- Track data that has non ascii characters such as ñ and ó will now be searchable using n and o respectively
- Fixed a bug where .wav file tags couldn't be read or written to properly because of non-wide aligned chunks
- Fixed the library keyboard scrolling issue causeed when the bpm is being edited and the user presses ctrl+up/down in order to scroll up/down the library
- Fixed bug where tracks were being labelled as iTunes library tracks even if iTunes importing was disabled. As a result, they couldn't be deleted from the library
- Fixed bug where beatgrid info wasn't being read or written to/from .xml metadata files
- Fixed a bug where unicode characters couldn't be read from the composer tag of an mpeg4 file
Controller fixes
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- Fixed the feedback loop bug with the Allen & Heath Xone DX
- Fixed a Denon HC5000 bug where going Shift+Relay would not make the HC5000's display change, thus preventing the user from being able to see the time setting being adjusted. Note that pushing just the Relay button would show the display change
- Fixed the Novation Twitch touch strip bug where the beat grid sometimes couldn't be adjusted when the 'adjust' button is pressed
- Fixed bug where scrolling through the Novation Twitch master fx time values for the delay and echo effect would not do so incrementally
- Fixed Swipe Mode + Play button bug with the Novation Twitch
- Fixed a Novation Twitch bug whereby the 'Drop' button didn't turn off after needle-drop
- Changed Slicer and Saved Loop lighting on the Novation Twitch
- Fixed a linked V7 bug where using the right V7's velocity slider and cues may make the left V7's playhead jump to the beginning of the track
Playback fixes
- Fixed bug where auto loops couldn't be saved in offline player
- The number of cue points that can be scrolled through in the SP6 is now 8
- Fixed Alt + Clicking Sample Slot bug so that it now stops the sample playing
- Fixed Headroom issue
- Fixed 'Braker' defaulting to 12 o'clock after install
- Fixed bug where auto gain was not being applied
- Fixed bug where the SP6-Trigger mode could be on, despite the SP6 plugin being off, creating a situation where the option couldn't be turned off, thus preventing the user from being able to use standard hardware cue point controls
- Fixed bug so that the autogain on/off state is now saved/loaded to/from preferences
Serato Video related bug fixes
- Added the missing False Color effect to the automatically generated effects_list.xml
- The Serato Video Image effect 'size' param is now saved and loaded to and from xml
- Adjusted the auto cross fade speed so that the low-mid-high speeds are 10 secs-4.4 secs-super fast. Note: The middle position is a little faster than VSL 1.2
- Fixed bug where auto cross fading from left to right would get stuck at the far left position (only when the autofader speed is set to slow)
- Updated the Serato Video effect slot ON/OFF buttons to have just 'ON' but with different colours to represent state
- The Serato Video upfaders now default to full and the cross fader to half way when using a sound card with no faders
- Fixed the 'smudge' effect occurring on the Serato Video preview deck
- Fixed an issue with the Serato Video cross fader not being able to go hard left or hard right
