From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 25, 2007 12:58:47 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Beta version of Astro IIDC 3.02.03 Up


Folks;


It's taken a week of my time (maybe I should send Steve J. the $5,000+

CDN bill for this), but I think I've tracked down and worked around

all of Apple's  bugs in Leopard. They obviously did no Q&A for

PowerPC, Rosetta or Carbon for Leopard.


This is not the final .dmg release version, it's just to make sure

things work on as many Mac x86 systems as possible that I can't afford

to buy or don't have time to test with.


http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroIIDC30203.zip


This fixes the endian issues Apple screwed up in FireWire which

prevented Astro IIDC from accessing the camera and a bunch of other

broken GUI Carbon bugs that wrecked registration module and caused

hangs in a non functioning Apple CFRunloop that ate all mouse clicks 

that Apple introduced in Leopard. We only tested under Leopard 10.5.1,

however 8/16 bit stacking, 16 image processing, camera functionality,

camera settings, preferences, Guiding using KeySpan and GPUSB, are all

working fine now. 


Additionally, I have released the Universal version of our Bayer Codec:


http://www.outcastsoft.com/ASC_Bayer_Installer30000.zip


which means you don't need to rely on Rosetta emulation for playback

on x86 anymore. The Original 2.03 PowerPC codeWarrior version of the

Codec is faster for PowerPC than this release, and that's because

Xcode generates poorly optimized PowerPC code. 


If you have any issues with either release, please notify me

immediately with details at:


support@outcastsoft.com


I'd like to get the final .dmg built release done by then end of next

week, so please file bug reports ASAP.


If it's a crash we need to see the crash log file named "Astro

IIDC.crash.log"


which is created at:


~/Users/YourUserNameHere/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Astro IIDC.crash.log


On a side note for Leopard users. If you let the Apple updater do the

10.5.1 update (which I did do), you may want to download the 110

megabyte 10.5.1 standalone updater and then do the update again. I

found a tonne of problems with disk utilities that could not be

repaired which "went away" after I re-did the update using the stand

alone version for both x86 and PowerPC Macs. I also had stability and

performance issues with 10.5.1 that "disappeared" after the second big

update too. This was on Wiped and re-Installed Macs, so there was no

carryover from 10.4.x which should be the cleanest way to install Leopard.


Performance and stability wise, your better off staying with OSX

10.4.10 than going to Leopard. Perhaps when Apple has hit release

10.5.03 it may be better, but for now it simply isn't up to snuff -

especially for recording video.


Hope That Helps..


Milton Aupperle