[Coco] DriveWire on a iMac

[Bill]

Well, I just answered my own question. My iMac Grape (G3) is loaded with OS X 10.2.5 and Java 1.4, so DriveWire is totally out of the question. So much for that.

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From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:40 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire on a iMac

Yeah, Mac is a special case because Apple wrote and/or provided their own Java 6 for a while, and then they stopped doing that.  Then the official Oracle JRE starting supporting OSX but only version 10.7.3 and above.

https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_mac.xml#otherjava

I am guessing 32 bit macs cannot use OSX 10.7.3+ ?  If that is the case, you're stuck with Apple's own version of Java 1.6 and that is so old and crusty all bets are off :(

You may be able to use the OpenJDK version of Java on your Mac.  People report good success using it on PowerPC Macs:
http://javaevangelist.blogspot.com/2012/02/openjdk-7-on-apple-g5-powerpc-on-mac-os.html

If OpenJDK is available for your machine, that should be a fine way to run Drivewire (or any other Java applications I'd think).  The OpenJDK project is now the "official" Java, supported by Oracle etc.

Or maybe Boisy will release his Mac DriveWire project and make this a non issue (assuming *that* runs on 32 bit intel macs :)

-Aaron


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Barry Nelson < barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:

> Regarding your comments below, the platform is Mac intel 32 bit, and 
> as for updating to a newer version of java, no newer version is 
> available for a 32 bit intel Mac. A 64 bit Mac does have newer java 
> versions available, but not 32 bit.
>
> Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
> Wed Jun 24 08:36:14 EDT 2015
> What platform(s) and JRE does this happen on?  I use 1.6 from Sun on 
> an old Linux box fairly often without issue, but that's the only 
> combination of
> 1.6 I have around here.
>
>
>  If you can upgrade to a more current JRE, I'd recommend it 
> (regardless of
> Drivewire)  There are a lot of bugs and security things fixed since 
> the days of 1.6
>
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