What happens Gideros is installed and used on Snow Leopard in 32-bit mode?

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• gorkem Maintainer

  December 2011

  We do not support 32 bit Mac. You may try, but I doubt it will work.

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• TokyoDan Member

  December 2011

  I'm running Gideros Studio on my iMac in 32-bit mode and it's working with no proble,.

  Dan Huffman, Creator of The Octagon Theory
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• MikeHart Guru

  December 2011

  Dan, how old is your IMac? Mine is from 2009 and is running in 64bit by default.

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• atilim Maintainer

  December 2011

  @TokyoDan maybe your iMac can run both 32-bit and 64-bit apps?
  

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• gorkem Maintainer

  December 2011

  @tokyodan did you find time to check this? I'd be willing to learn

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• TokyoDan Member

  December 2011

  Sorry I didn't reply earlier. This is the 1st I've been back since my original post. I came back after seeing a tweet this morning about the extensions functionality being announced here today.
  
  Anyway. My iMac is running in 32-bit mode (as you can see in the sys info below) and Gideros ran perfectly. Or at least I think it did. How far would I get before running in 32-bit mode would present problems.
  
  Strange huh.
  
  My iMac 27" is now exactly 2 years old and here's the system info.
  
  Under About This Mac -> More Info -> Software it shows:
  
  System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
  Kernel Version: Darwin 10.8.0
  Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
  Boot Mode: Normal
  Computer Name: iMac27
  User Name: Caster (Caster)
  Secure Virtual Memory: Not Enabled
  64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
  Time since boot: 10:54
  
  But I found this on Google. It says 64-bit apps can run even when booted into the 32-bit kernel:
  
  "By default, your Snow Leopard system (except for Xserves) boots into a 32-bit kernel, even on the latest Macs. That doesn't keep you from running 64-bit applications and addressing more than 2 GB of RAM."
  
  http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/checking_32_or_64-bit_kernel_boot_mode_in_snow_leopard/
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Dan Huffman, Creator of The Octagon Theory
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• TokyoDan Member

  December 2011

  I also ran this command in a terminal to check if my Mac can support 64-bit:
  
  ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
  
  It gave me:
  
  | | "firmware-abi" = <"EFI64">
  
  which shows that my iMac is 64-bit capable. (but not booted into the 64-bit kernel right now.)
  
  
  

  Dan Huffman, Creator of The Octagon Theory
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