From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: April 14, 2008 12:47:59 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Licensing question
Dear Duane;
Your more or less correct. Upgrade the G4 to Version 4 and then buy
the reduced price second copy.
However for the reduced price second copy, it's your choice as to what
type of device to register it for. So you can register it for a
particular Mac or a Camera.
In your case, it would be most flexible if you purchase the second
license for the Camera so you can use it on multiple Macs.
Hope That Helps..
Milton Aupperle
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Duane" <macastronomer@...> wrote:
Thanks Milton. I'm pretty sure I understand, but let me write out my
situation to make
sure...
I have my old G4 Powerbook. I have a Core Duo MacBook Pro. I have a
PowerMac dual
Quad at work.
If I upgrade my ver 3 to ver 4, use the PPC version and continue to
capture on my old mac.
(Capturing has never really been a problem speed wise, so this seems
like a good
observatory computer)
If I get the second reduced price copy licensed to the camera, then
I could use it on the
MacBook pro for processing at home and maybe image with it in the
future, if need be.
Also, just to see how fast it can go, I could process a few videos
on my work computer, as
long as I bring my camera along with. (This computer compresses
video insanely fast—I'm
extremely curious to see how fast it will handle Astro IIDC!)
Thanks again.
Duane
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@> wrote:
Hi Duane;
If your going to obsolete a Mac , then we will allow you to specify
which Mac your upgrading for version 4, especially because Version 4
is a Universal Binary now and most people will want to be running it
on a x86 PowerBook.
And No, you can't do a cross grade to another type of device (i.e.
Camera to Mac or Mac to Camera) when upgrading to a new version of
Astro IIDC. If you want to cross grade, then you can use the reduced
price second copy offering for version 4:
http://www.outcastsoft.com/SecondCopyAstroIIDC4.html
Hope that explains things..
Milton J. Aupperle
PS:
On a side note, I'm going to be releasing Astro IIDC 4.00.03 this
week, which fixes a couple of minor bugs and includes a PowerPC only
version of Astro IIDC that runs on G3 / G4 / G5 Macs and OSX 10.3.x
to 10.5.2. Because it's built with CodeWarrior it's a bit faster on
PowerPC (especially the Altivec code sections) than the XCode
compiled version of the Universal Binary.
On 12-Apr-08, at 11:39 PM, Duane wrote:
If I update to version 4, and wish to buy the second copy for
processing, can I get both
licensed to the camera rather than my old G4 laptop? That system
is
nearly ready for the
recycle bin.
My current ver 3 copy is registered to my old G4 laptop—which was
nice when my Fire-i
died, because it was all ready to go when I got the Imaging source
camera. Hopefully this
camera will last me longer than my most recent MacBook Pro, which
I'm already itching to
upgrade.
Duane