MacOS PPC S5R2 App 4.34 available for Beta Test

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27 Jul 2007 15:17:54 UTC
Topic 13575
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    A new MacOS PPC App is available from our Beta Test page.

    This App is part of a new generation of Apps that follow our attempts to track down and fix the remaining problems of the new software we're using since S5R2. It has the same codebase as the 4.33 Windows App, thus basically the same features.

    For the "SIN/COS LUT" it uses a variant using floor(), which should be the fastest on PowerPC CPUs. This App should be significantly faster that the previous Beta, and might even be faster than the current official one.

    Plese test and report.

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    Bernd Machenschalk
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    MacOS PPC S5R2 App 4.34 available for Beta Test

    29 Jul 2007 20:55:16 UTC
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      It would be particularly nice if someone could test this on a G3. We're getting some "Illegal Instruction" errors from the current official App on G3.

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      RE: Since you asked, I've

      30 Jul 2007 20:48:46 UTC
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        Since you asked, I've just installed this on my little G3-based iMac. It's only a 400-Megahertz job, so just don't expect any quick results. ;)


        Than you! If there really is an instruction in the code that is illegal on the G3 it should show up rather soon.

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        By the way, there's a slight error with the instructions on the beta page. Owner and group should be set to "boinc_master" and "boinc_project", respectively.


        Thanks. I updated the instructions.

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        WARNING: Probably switching

        20 Aug 2007 7:37:45 UTC
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          WARNING: Probably switching back to the official App by simply removing the app_info.xml doesn't work anymore since we enabled verify_files_on_app_start. Sorry, we didn't think about this side effect for Beta tests. I'll see if there's any non-destructive way of switching back to the official App path from the Beta.

          For now I recommend to NOT remove the app_info.xml while you have tasks in progress with more than, say, 5% done.

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