weeguy Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Opera 8.50 has been released and it's completely free now. http://www.opera.com/free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Thanks for the info. By saying no univ. bin. Do you mean it doesn't work with osx86? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted September 20, 2005 Author Share Posted September 20, 2005 It works well with Rosetta. Just that the latest version is not ported over as a universal binary yet. But it has been mentioned that future versions of Opera are shifting over to Cocoa code base so hopefully we can see better integration with Mac OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 How were you able to choose to run with Rosetta? I have no such option in Opera properties, so I guess I'm running Opera native? It has always ran propper on my install. Ever since since they were giving away free serials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted September 20, 2005 Author Share Posted September 20, 2005 As in, Opera for Mac has always been compiled as a PowerPC binary. And all PPC-compiled apps (such as MS Office and iTunes) are being emulated by Rosetta during runtime on our OSX86 systems So if you're running Opera on your OSX86, it has to be running with Rosetta emulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Thank you for the explanation. I was under the impression that it was different, but I understand now. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Thank you for the explanation. I was under the impression that it was different, but I understand now. Cheers! For those new to Mac OSX on x86, you can almost always determine if a program is running with Rosetta (and therefore Intel and/or PPC binary) by right click on almost any icon and choose Open in Finder. You then right click on the program icon under Finder and choose Get Info. A left pane window willl pop up and you will have a choice of Open using Rosetta if it is a Universal Binary. You will also get the last opened date and Architecture: Intel, PowerPC and other info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Mike Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 can't wait for a x86 version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 For those new to Mac OSX on x86, you can almost always determine if a program is running with Rosetta (and therefore Intel and/or PPC binary) by right click on almost any icon and choose Open in Finder. You then right click on the program icon under Finder and choose Get Info. A left pane window willl pop up and you will have a choice of Open using Rosetta if it is a Universal Binary. You will also get the last opened date and Architecture: Intel, PowerPC and other info. Not true. As I have stated above, there is no such option on the current release of Opera. Therefore, as I understand it, every app running on the current osx86 run on Rosetta. So you are actually emulating Rosetta in an emulated environment. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philter Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 You're wrong, lots of apps are x86 and do not run under Rosetta, in fact most that come with OSX are x86. Plus, he said if it's a universal (both ppc and x86 in one) binary it will have that option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i1sam Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 i just installed this version 8.5 for osx in my osx86 and it runs flawlessly under p4 3.0 ht sse3, intel 865perl mobo 1gig ddr400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kettobase Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 You guys can stop arguing about it, the quickest and easiest way to figure out how the program is running is your dock. If you have a solid black arrow under the app it's running x86 binary, if it's a gray arrow, it's running PPC (Rosetta) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts