Odds and Ends: One developer's experience with the Intel transition; Knowledge Base Updates

One developer's experience with the Intel transition TLA Systems, the developer of DragThing, is finding the transition to Intel-based Macs to be a smooth and relatively quick process.

In a note sent to MacFixIt, the company says:

"We are also happy to report that DragThing is running natively on the prototype Intel Mac hardware. It took less than two days of work to take the existing code and modify it to support the new architecture. In addition, the existing PowerPC version of 5.6.1 works perfectly under the Rosetta environment.

"TLA Systems intends to support both PowerPC and Intel versions of our software for the long term, and will not charge existing registered users of DragThing 5 an additional fee to obtain a native Intel version.

"Indeed, we expect to offer a universal binary of DragThing 5.6.x next month as a public beta for other developers and users who have access to Intel Macs today."

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