[Ham-Mac] Re: WinWarbler Update

[Chris Smolinski]

>RealBasic does OSX, Classic, and Windows. It has an
>importer that will "translate" Visual Basic code.
>
>One possible fly in any conversion to any Mac OS is whether
>or not the author used Windows "dlls". This is code, often
>written in C, that is all precompiled and ready to go. Such
>modules can rarely be translated from one os to another; it
>is necessary to go back to the original code and recompile
>it. Since code for these kinds of applications (sound-card
>based, etc) are very specific for the platform, it becomes
>a non-trivial task. Then, again, there might be a pleasant
>surprise!

Have you considered how you will handle sound input, and continuous 
sound output, with RealBasic? You will be in for a surprise, and it 
will not be pleasant! ;-)

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com