I am trying to revive an old VDMX setup which we ran on an old Mac Powerbook Laptop with G4 PowerPC processor a few years ago. It was a very unique setup and it would be great to revive it.
I searched everywhere and contacted the support but I could not find a version that runs on that Laptop. According to the version info the last version supporting Mac OS Leopard 10.5 was b0.8.0.6.2… I would be very grateful if anybody had such a version lying around on a backup.
Back then Vidvox also provided an app to convert videos and animations to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec). That codec was extremely fast on PowerPC and it would be wonderful to have a converter, too.
Is that one Universal Binary? Just right click the app and it should say Kind: Application (Universal Binary). Maybe it is worth a try. Thanks anyway ;)
I can’t be the only one keeping older builds. Keeping all projects alive is an issue and the whole idea of conserving digital art is a valid problem. Museums are already strugling on maintaing digital art.
Pretty sure i have both the old converter and a lot of the older betas - used to be a beta tester for Vidvox back in the days, so kept different versions to test up against, and for reviving old projects…
Will have to dig into the hackingtosh in the studio though, and not there so often. Will try to remember to take a peek if its still relevant?
Will probably go there some time next week.
(I myself made some pretty elaborate setups 10-20 years ago , in the later years i sometimes cloned the complete system disk to a backup drive together with all project media etc, to have everything in case the project should bee ressurrected. But only did it for a few projects. Cant imagine how i would make it work ewen with that… but it might be possible… still got modt of the old hardware… )
In our case we used some special AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) video files that were very performant on PowerPC and supported several video streams which was absolutely unique at that time. Unfortunately, that type of AIC codec was only supported on PowerPC. We had some pretty complex VDMX projects with quite a lot of AIC encoded files and little filters (as those consumed too much CPU). I remember that the files were changing depending on the beat and notes of the music creating a special moods for different kinds of music. Anyway. :)
We made some pretty unique visuals many years ago. Would be so great to revive them.
, in the later years i sometimes cloned the complete system disk to a backup drive together with all project media etc, to have everything in case the project should bee ressurrected. But only did it for a few projects. Cant imagine how i would make it work ewen with that… but it might be possible… still got modt of the old hardware… )