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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 16 2006 - 02:14:50 CDT

Cristoph and others with new Intel based Macs,
  I've got good news and so-so news. The good news is that I've
got full OpenGL features running on the Intel version of MacOS X,
including OpenGL programmable shading! So, the MacOS X Intel
builds of VMD 1.8.4 I release have great potential for both performance
and features.

The so-so news is that:
  - MacOS X 10.4.x on Intel still has 3-D texturing bugs

  - GLSL running on my Intel iMac test box gets software emulated by the
    ATI x1600 card and current drivers, so it's quite slow currently,
    appears to have a few rendering buglets still.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:10:08PM -0700, Christoph Weber wrote:
> I'll add to John's comments:
> No additional installs are necessary, and VMD works fine for me before
> and after updating the
> firmware and OS on my MacBook Pro.
> VMD should start up OK whether you use the default bash shell or tcsh.
> For the former you
> need to look at .bashrc and .profile instead of .cshrc in John's answer.
> Once you have the kinks worked out you'll find that VMD is (nearly) as
> fast as on a G5 based
> desktop Mac, and John hasn't even started to optimize the Intel Mac
> build yet.
> This is a great little computer and has a bright future.
>
> Good luck,
> Christoph
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