MacBook Pro’s are becomming affordable for around 300 dollars CDN you can get a 2014 15 inch retena with geforce 750
applications worth mention for intel
- QBoss – application for firing employees fairly.
- mreminder – medication reminder app
- qtodo – todo reminder app
- qdiary – diary note taking app
- MacText – text editor
- Audacity
- Blender
- unity
- eduke32
- rtcw
- quake3 – compiles
- openjo – jedi outkast
- crrcsim
- qt – install the 5.12 version dmg should come with its own qtcreator you’ll need also remember to use macdeployqt
- revolt
- lmms
- qsynth
- db browser for sqlite
- geany
- clavitura
- gnaural – java version runs after installing brew and java
- uhttpd –
- thunderbird – musthave app for filtering all your emails and keeping them stored over the years.
- tuxguitar – is java but has it all contained in its own app.
- gimp
- libreoffice
- virtualbox
- vlc
- steam
- vice – readytorun commodore 64
- openemu
- ardour
- supertuxkart
- transmission
- mixxx
- handbrake
- crossftp
- wonderiso – bootable usb
- brew
- starcraft 2
- starcraft
- isentury – camera motion detection security system – i used a logitech c270 camera and it was plug and play with big sur.
- living earth – very awesome seeing earth on the desktop with realtime weather
said to be the rolls royce of computers, OSX very capable operating system that has the perks of linux with added security and support.
the app store is full of apps that do not run on older IOS 9.3 devices, it would have been easy for them to seperate the two hopefully that happens soon so ipad 2 users arnt wasting their time.
there are alot of missing apps that compile easy for OSX that work great on linux. i’ll post some app repo’s soon.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7862999 VNC stuff
http://nicolasgallagher.com/mac-osx-bootable-backup-drive-with-rsync/
Development on OSX seems pretty straight forward sofar.
qtCreator is fairly large but has all the deployment stuff you need for newer ipads. ios 9.3 support is a bit tricky you have to add it in 10.1 xcode first its an extra 1.5 gb download click the properties -> components -> simulators and download 9.3 .
Brew : command line app for getting dev packages compiled everything runs natively without xserver or xquartz running.
android studio
MacPorts : can be installed without giving root aswell easily uses /opt/ folder it creates. maybe a guide soon. there are a few things to do to get the file manager and shell to look proper from factory install, some of them settings to be put in from the shell.
CodeBlocks 17 – package comming soon. fixed header compile order issue in sqvm.c file then it compiled great.
https://netpipe.ca/aha/CodeBlocks.app.zip i could not get this working on big sur so i had to download someone elses from here
Irrlicht – compile library with XCode then CodeBlocks is able to compile libirrlicht.a into projects. -framework’s are needed in the linker options.
VNC server with MacOSX screen sharing is a tad slow, so im trying to figure out a way to setup x11vnc to do this or some other way.
https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
- iGlance is really handy for system monitoring
OpenGL is said to be being depreciated in new OSX versions in favor of Metal/Vulcan. i do think that opengl support will remain around though for compatability reasons and older software support.
Resetting Ipad and Iphone passwords
Great for getting good deals on ebay, be sure to keep the seller information maybe even printit out when buying items like that.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204306
was pretty easy hold power button and home button untill the ipad reboots, keep holding it until you see a usb cable ontop of an apple device. at that point you connect to itunes and do a restore, it will update and wipe the ipad.
Installing OSX in VirtualBox
This worked for me after purchasing snow leopard for 30 dollars from apple store.
https://blog.katharsys.com/?p=6168
https://github.com/notpeter/apple-installer-checksums/blob/master/readme.md upgrading snow leopard has been a chore sofar , you have to fully update the system after that itunes would not open and el capitan wont or install possibly from only having one cpu for virtualbox(only way snowleopard would boot) so i have to try yosemite next then lion if needed.
run these replace osx with your vm name
VBoxManage modifyvm osx --cpus 1
VBoxManage modifyvm osx --vram 128
VBoxManage setextradata osx VBoxInternal2/EfiGopMode 5
one line for these
VBoxManage setextradata osx "VBoxInternal2/SmcDeviceKey" "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc"
QT Creator
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=52412&p=304439#p304439 topic i started on compiling for osx
NTFS support
would not recommend using NTFS support with OSX (high sierra). i had one drive go corrupt when reading it on Linux after using it on OSX
CD/DVD Authoring
There are stock tools for DVD authoring included with OSX. There is also an application called Burn from brew that works great for burning images
Coding
i like to git clone the repo to desktop and have my brew folder there.
cmake . -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/Users/mac5/Qt/5.12.12/5.12.12/clang_64/lib/cmake
it helps cmake find qt path
Game Engine
