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http://www.macnn.com/articles/01/02/12/realbasic.3/

REALbasic 3 adds OS X support, now shipping

updated 08:55 am EST, Mon February 12, 2001

 
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REAL Software is now shipping REALbasic 3, a new version of its popular development application for Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Windows ("without requiring any platform-specific adjustments"). Version 3 brings Mac OS X support, an all-new animation engine, revamped database features, enhancements to the Code editor and debugger, crash recovery, searchable online reference, AppleScriptable compilation process, and "vastly" improved Windows support. The Standard edition sells for $150 while the Pro version carries a $350 price tag.


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    02/12, 09:48am | report spam | Reply | delete

    Re: RealBasic Info

    Gee, it would be nice if they would update their website BEFORE announcing the product. Nothing more enjoyable than looking for information and getting "page not found" messages.

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    macnn

    Actually, it's not the fault of REAL. Instead, it's just another in a long history of crappy links provided by the crack macnn staff.

    Here's the correct link:
    http://www.realbasic.com/realbasic/index.html

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    Re: macnn

    No, it's not MacNN's fault. At this time clicking on any page under the one you provided gives 404 errors. That's all REALsoftware's problem.

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    Oh well!

    Oh well, I'm sure the product is good. Shame about the broken links, though.

    Krishen

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    Re: macnn

    Looks like they fixed the link--if you had clicked the link when I wrote the text above, the link that macnn provided didn't even take a user to a valid start page for REALbasic 3.

    I can be editor for free for macnn, but I certainly can't control what happens when you get to the REAL page.

    And indeed, macnn provides broken links regularly. For what it's worth.

    Nevertheless, the product looks astonishingly great! Can't wait till it arrives....

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    how is this possible?

    How can they provide Mac OS X support when (a) Mac OS X is unfinished -- how do they know it will run properly on Final and (b) CarbonLib is still a moving target. How can they be sure that they'll take full advantage of Carbon in Final Candidate?

    Hypothetically they could release an update, but why release at all when Mac OS X is weeks away?

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    i think 3.1

    will come out around the same time a resolve any last problems. they are a developer so they have been getting more betas than you or I

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    Betas (RE: i think 3.1)

    Actually:
    http://www.realbasic.com/realbasicbeta.html

    is where they post all current alpha and beta versions of 3.0 (and all of 2.0's when in the making).

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    Outrageous Upgrade Price

    I have purchased REALBasic since it was 1.0 -- and always got the Pro version $$$. Now if you want to upgrade, they whack the price down to $250. Not much of a price cut. The 2.0 version was nice but it never did own up to the specs when they sold it. The internal database leaves much to be desired. I haven't played with the 3.0 betas so I can't say the quality has improved. With that high of a upgrade, I might just learn Cocoa...

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    Suckers

    RB has a long history of using wacked alphas and betas to turn profits. I don't recall ever seeing a version of RB that didn't have bugs. And now they're releasing a product for OSX when OSX itself isn't done. The comment above about RB getting more betas than other people isn't true. RB has the same betas and releases that every other premier Apple developer gets, and right now some critical parts of OSX just aren't there.

    It would be nice if the folks at RB would stop using non-working betas to sell their barely working commercial versions, but that's not going to happen. Sites like MacNN will continue to post whatever 3.0.01.9.3.2.a versions RB wants to call 'betas' every time a freakin' comment is changed in the about box. And us users and developers will keep buying it because there's nothing else out there for us to buy. Now they want me to shell out 250 for an upgrade, when the version I'm upgrading from doesn't work right, and I doubt the OSX upgrade will be any different, only that under OSX I won't bring the whole OS down around me when I crash. I'm going to wait and see which other vendors bring their products to OSX. I'm ready to use something else.

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