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realimbored668; I'd highly recommend you try WINE first, because you don't have to pay any money or bother trying to crack it (unline VMware Fusion & Parallels, which I think may also require a Windows installation disk, but I could be wrong on that last bit).
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I have a Mac and I use Famitracker on Wine via Wineskin.
[url=http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php]http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php
It works well overall, but be wary of the handful of annoying bugs that get in the way (something you're bound to expect in Wine-based applications):
-You can only input "6" or "8" values with a numeric keypad (if you only have a Mac laptop or a wireless keyboard, then tough luck)
-Dragging takes forever
-Most of the time the cut/copy function won't work
-The buffer length must be set above ~120 ms as more processing power is used
-You cannot go back and forth between two effects as they are both selected
-You cannot import PCM samples into DPCM
[quote=TechEmporium]There's also a qt port of FamiTracker, if all else fails & you can't stand the bugs from Wineskin.[/quote]
Yes, there is. Still a WIP, though. I've made good progress lately regarding making the MFC HLE as unobtrusive as possible. The MFC FT code is damn near unadulterated, even down to MFC message maps and MFC command routing. I need some help on Mac though since I [still] don't have a Mac to test it on.
This sounds like a lot of work just to use famitracker on a mac. Do any of you think jsr (or whatever his/her name is, the administrator) will consider a mac version (natively)?
JSR hasn't because it's already painful enough to just choose a single platform to work with.
cpow's the only one who actually managed to get a Mac port of FamiTracker working. The other option is to use a virtual machine program like VMware Fusion or Parallels, like I said earlier. It's up to you.
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[quote=realimbored668]This sounds like a lot of work just to use famitracker on a mac. Do any of you think jsr (or whatever his/her name is, the administrator) will consider a mac version (natively)?[/quote]
The goal of [url=https://github.com/christopherpow/nesicide]my project is that it won't be necessary for jsr or anyone else to "consider a Mac version (natively)". The goal is that the MFC FT source be air-dropped on top of a Qt/MFC high-level emulation layer. So...jsr can continue on in his MFC world, and I can take his MFC source and build a Qt [Mac/Linux/... native] version directly from it. That GitHub link is to my main project, NESICIDE - the FamiTracker projects are under apps/ and libs/.
I have been working on it for just over a year, on and off. I plan to finish it before I die.
Well cpow, you thoroughly confused me with all the MFC/high-level emulation layer/Qt/GitHub/air-dropped things. I think using a Windows emulator would be simpler
Haha that was directed at your "consider a mac version (natively)" comment. Users of my Qt port of FT would of course just run the program...natively. But...whatever.
If nothing else works, you could run it in a VirtualBox session, granted you have a powerful enough system or dedicate enough resources (the compsci lab macintosh computers at my uni run windows quite nicely through VirtualBox).
I run Famitracker through Wine (#! Waldorf) since it works well *enough*.
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Well cpow, you thoroughly confused me with all the MFC/high-level emulation layer/Qt/GitHub/air-dropped things. I think using a Windows emulator would be simpler