Can you smell it too?

Hmmm... *sniff sniff*... checking...

Yup, it's still there!

My guess: Vlad is busy designing the new Filter Library system...

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Zephos wrote: now I get the injoke on the other post about it

You can get historic here.

Hmmm....seems pretty quiet in the "recent" uloaded filter section...so is something afoot again?

no, i think i 'smell' something coming too. it's been pretty quiet on the developer front here in the forums... too quiet. something is up.

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Kraellin wrote: no, i think i 'smell' something coming too.

I don't think there will be any big releases anytime soon. Our main focus now is the Mac version, but it will take months (hopefully not years) to see the first results.

Yeah, I think that a Mac version will significantly increase the amount of users here.....given that Mac still has a strong hold on the graphics market....

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jffe wrote: I had a Mac once, I dunno how McD's stays in businesss serving that crap. There should be an FF ported for use on those Iputers though, you know, those over-priced no right-clicking ones. Big grin

Well McDs now has the Ifoam...

hehe

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jffe wrote: There should be an FF ported for use on those Iputers though

Not sure about that. Personally, a version 2.0 for PC seems so much more desireable to me than a 1.009 for OSX...

"Damn you, stupid Mac version!"

*angrily shakes fist while donning flame-retard suit*

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Crapadilla wrote: "Damn you, stupid Mac version!"

This would make an excellent header for a diggbait

Speaking seriously, here's the latest NPD data on Apple's recent share in notebooks and desktops:
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/05/13/n...rketshare/

Ok, I'm gonna make a terribly PC-biased post...

Doesn't the PC version already successfully run on OSX via Parallels, or something? And doesn't the new OSX natively support windows applications? I'm kind of blissfully unencumbered when it comes to Macs, so pardon my ignorance on the matter. I had work on Macs in the distant past, but I'll admit I never got 'it'. They just kept crashing on me...

To me, the development of the native OSX version kind of takes the wind out of Filter Forge's sparkling sails quite drastically, since version 2.0 could be such a gem with all the features that are planned. Now we'll have to wait at least a year or longer for the 2.0 beta.

Bummer!

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Crapadilla wrote: Now we'll have to wait at least a year or longer for the 2.0 beta

I guess that's the biggest fear for us "can't-wait-for-more-PC-goodies" enthusiasts

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Bob Cringely

Who's "Bob Cringely"??? LMAO.....

Ah, I thought Vlad was calling Dilla "Bob Cringely" because he was "cringing" at the thought of waiting for PC enhancements

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Kraellin wrote: [...] particularly in light of the fact that mac has always done sight and sound better than a pc.

"Madame, this dish is magnificent. I bet your pans and pots are of the finest quality."

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StevieJ wrote: Ah, I thought Vlad was calling Dilla "Bob Cringely" because he was "cringing" at the thought of waiting for PC enhancements Big grin

See! There you have it!

No Mac version needed!

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These days, this is pure hype.

well, not ever having owned a mac, i cant really argue this. but i do know that when i go into one of the local computer stores and do side by side comparisons, the macs just look sweeter. but, that's hardly a definitive statement of 'sight and sound is better on a mac'. having been around back in the 8 bit days, when apple, commmodore and ibm ruled the computer universe, the motorola chip and architecture (apple and commodore) was far superior than intel's, at least in sight and sound. and when the move went to 16 bit computers, macs, amigas and pcs, again, apple and commodore were so far ahead as to be laughable, at least in the sight and sound arenas. i recall seeing the pc ads in the late 80's and early 90's about 'multi-media' and 'multi-tasking' and i just had to hold my guts from splitting while laughing. we'd had these things for years already and here was little old pc finally acknowledging that these things even existed. lol.

the whole thing with the motorola architecture was that the cpu was more of a traffic manager than a number cruncher. it simply handed off tasks to the other processors, a sight processor and a sound processor and some others. it didnt try to do it all itself. pc's were more about making the cpu the one and only and making it faster and faster so that it could handle all the tasks.

now, as things evolved, the pc finally started to have to hand some of this stuff off. so, you got sound cards and video cards and the two machines evolved a bit closer together. then directx came in on the pc and we got rid of all the idiot dos fiddling that had to be done when you ran a high graphic/sound package. all the 'high mem' stuff dropped into the background and you no longer had to fiddle so much with your boot files to get a game or other application to work right. but, mac was still ahead at this point and still the superior machine as far as ease of use and multi-media, multi-tasking.

but, now mac has gone intel and the pc has cleaned up a lot of stuff and fixed a number of old 8088 leftovers, so, like i said to start with, i cant really verify that a mac is superior these days on sight and sound and maybe i am just 'buying the hype'. but, given the history and given 'the hype' (god, i love the apple commercials where 'mac' is talking to 'pc'! ), if i were truly going to go with the more creative company, i'd go mac, hands down every time.

rofl. yup, that's a great one! "Allow "

Yeah, and Steve Jobs will anounce FF's Mac version for iPhone at Macworld on Tuesday morning

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The ZZ wrote: Yeah, and Steve Jobs will anounce FF's Mac version for iPhone at Macworld on Tuesday morning

And I thought Vlad would announce Filter Forge II: Air at that time, but he doesn't seem to be around currently...

Ugh. It smells like "No new filters today"!

I am sad as well. I actually have 2 filters pending (that's like a 100% increase over my normal output) and am quite excited.

Wow, this sounds like a big update!

Ahhhhhh, I feel "complete" this morning..... LOL....

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Crapadilla wrote: Something is cooking again... I can smell it! Most of the FF officials haven't logged in for a few days, Vladimir hasn't logged in for a week... Must be something big!

----Company bbq.

jffe