Archive for the 'Intel Macs' Category
A (you guessed it, untested) .pkg installer of GUIAPPS for Intel Macs is available on the downloads page. Here’s a direct download link for the impatient.
You might notice I’m making Intel versions of a lot of the smaller packages, and ignoring the elephant in the room, STSDAS. PPC Mac users may also be annoyed that I’m putting up newer and Tiger savvy versions and of installers for Intel Macs, when PPC installers are languishing. These are all good points.
I’ll get around to STSDAS and TABLES sometime. Hopefully, no one will run off and start using scisoft any time soon.
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I can’t test this one either, but Intel X11IRAF 1.5DEV is available on the download page It puts everything where the normal x11iraf installer would put things, in /usr/local. You’ll need /usr/local/bin in your PATH to be able to run xgterm, ximtool, and the like.
Anyone who uses it successfully, leave a comment!
Download X11IRAF 1.5DEV for Intel Macs .pkg Installer
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Well, I don’t have an Intel-based Mac but I think I have successfully created a .pkg installer for IRAF 2.13 BETA 2. The install process is the same, create the IRAF User, run the installer, then run the install script … and I just realized I forgot to put the .pkg installer in a folder with a README, but oh well. Someone with an Intel Mac and some bravery, give it a shot. It’s available at the download page.
Update A commenter says it seemed to work! Any other reviews, please post in comments.
Another Update It would appear the name of the .pkg is wrong, it says 2.12 BETA 2 but it’s 2.13, I assure you.
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IDL is now available for download for Intel-based macintoshes. As I’m told, it’s
one installer that will install either Intel or PPC binaries depending on
what system you have. It’s also finally labelled correctly at the ITTVIS
download page web site.
The other “unix tar file” Mac download I guess is not for Intel
systems, and they still haven’t updated their platform FAQ, but oh well.
Anyone with an Intel Mac who is running IDL, if you could give me some
performance comparisons, that’d be sweet.
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IDL 6.3 is out today, but it only runs on PowerPC based Macs. An email to the RSI support
staff however garnered a response. IDL should be availabel for Intel Based
macs in July, possibly as early as late June.
With IRAF running on Intel thanks to the IRAF.net gang, the last piece of the
Intel puzzle for astronomers should soon be in place. I’d be very interested in anyone
with benchmarks of code running on Intel-Based macs once IDL is out in a month or so.
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Check out iraf.net right now for links to binaries of IRAF and some external packages running natively on Intel Macintoshes! If you have a Macbook or intel Mac mini, here’s your chance to test them out and help find any bugs, etc.
FYI, it has been reported that IRAF will run in rosetta fairly painlessly. Can IRAF run in a mixed mode where some external packages are in rosetta and some native? I don’t know, I bet not. Someone wants to buy ME a Mac mini I’ll let you know. 
Update My Universal Binary of the IRAF Button is now available on the IRAF Button page.
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It took a while, but the IRAF Button is now a universal binary. The project goes back to I think the Project Builder days, so I had to replace the main.m code and “upgrade” the target in Xcode, along with some other changes, but now it’s a Universal Binary, will run natively on Intel-based Macs.
Of course, there’s probably no performance difference at all - Applescript based applications can’t possibly benefit much from being native… I bet it would run virtually the same under Rosetta, but still.
What we really need is IRAF running native on Intel, so if you haven’t already make a donation to IRAF.net
Also, since no one as far as I know is running the IRAF button on an Intel Mac, I may wait a bit before uploading this.
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