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The decision was to base them on the CTX apps and not the Carbon ones, which made sense in 2019, but with 9-15 months of delays due to Apple bugs and Cocoa challenges this has made them only a glint in my eye on the project plan. The Windows versions of the apps have been on hold for some time – make sure you are on the newsletter list, see the support page. Of course, right now, resolving the Big Sur AppKit issue for all CTX apps is impacting the MS and Xx development timelines and pushing VQuartz for Metal even further into 2021.

Other revisions to align with Apple’s current state. Port the applications for ARM/Apple Silicon processors 5. Revise them so they work on Big Sur for Intel machines. Ensure they work on Catalina (Cocoa Only, and Mojave (Carbon/Cocoa), and Older MacOS (Carbon/Cocoa old Apple file format). Finishing Xx should happen rapidly after MSCTX1.0 is gold. It’s user interface uses Apple’s AppKit so has the same issue with Big Sur erasing parts of the application interface, so the volunteers are focusing on MacOS 10.10-10.13 and 10.14 and 10.15 for now. MetaSynth+Xx CTX 1.0 is in development and we are starting to test it. Eric has created yet another “work-a-round” to avoid the Apple bugs encountered but this one reduces application performance, so he’d prefer they fix it. We have a case open with Apple and are engaging them to resolve it. Big Sur contains a bug in Apple’s AppKit that runs Cocoa user interfaces. There is a survey up to help us balance the benefit/risks of this moving forward. Eric is balancing that with the fact that so many legacy customers continue to use older MacOS versions. They are backwards compatible to MacOS 10.10 but doing so creates issues between Apple and U&I.

#Artmatic discontinued products free

There have been three upgrades and all of them have been FREE to CTX 1.0 users. If you have moved on to Cocoa watch for new CTX 1.0 products the store on this site as they become available.ĪrtMatic CTX 1.0 (Designer, Voyager, Explorer) have been completed for Catalina and are currently available. They are available at an “end of life” discount.

#Artmatic discontinued products upgrade

If you plan to continue running a Carbon MacOS or have an older machine at hand, the option to upgrade to the final versions is still possible on the Legacy Website -> Store page.

#Artmatic discontinued products download

If you can’t find the right MacOS installers, try the download part of this guys’ tool. I use Apple’s BootCamp, some other folks use third-party tools like Parallels or VMware to run both a Carbon/Cocoa OS like Mojave and CocoaMac+iOS OS like Catalina. To continue running the last upgrades of the discontinued Carbon products ArtMatic Engine: Designer 7.5.3, Voyager 4.5.3, VQuartz 4.5.3 and MetaSynth 6.0.1, and Xx 5.5.2 you’d need to create a dual boot computer with a Carbon MacOS such as 10.14.6.

#Artmatic discontinued products software

It’s similar to changing your OS to Windows – it does not run the software for the other platform. If you have updated an Intel Mac to Catalina or Big Sur you’ve moved on to a Cocoa only world. It does mean that customers no longer have an operating system to run their Carbon applications on after MacOS 10.14.6. Let’s start here, CTX 1.0 products are new Apple apps for their current platform that took years to make and are sold as such. This makes sense for them as a hardware/software integrated company. As a result, current Macs can run iOS apps natively as well. Bottom line, Apple chose to break with the past and align the Mac brand with their iDevice technology both in operating system (Cocoa) and in hardware (ARM/ĪppleSilicon Processors). for a sense of this journey and what CTX 1.0 products are. Eric continues to work daily on his 4-year journey to recreate his discontinued Carbon products for Apple’s Cocoa environment.