Universalis on the Mac

The downloadable Universalis program is now available for the Macintosh.

It requires MacOS Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5) and it’s a Universal binary, which means it’ll work on both PowerPC and Intel PCs.

Thanks to everyone who tested it. Your comments were a great help.

Universalis on the Mac: beta test version

I’ve now nearly finished writing a Mac version of the downloadable Universalis program. If you are a Mac user and want to try it out, please let me know, either by email or as a comment on this blog entry, and I’ll tell you how you can download and install it.

It works beautifully on my iMac running Leopard, but I’d like to know how it works on older versions of Mac OS X: on Tiger, for instance. And if you have a Mac that is PowerPC-based rather than Intel-based, I’d like to see if I can produce a Universal version that works for you.

If you have already bought a registration code then you can use it on the Mac version. If you haven’t, then you don’t need to buy one just yet: if you install the Mac version today then it’ll work as a trial version until the end of April.

LATER: Thank you all for your responses and your comments on the program! The download is now generally available. Click here for the download.

Japanese-language iPaq

A user in Japan reported that random Japanese characters were appearing in the Gospel display when she was using the stand-alone Universalis on her Japanese-language iPaq.

This was because of a difference in the way that Microsoft’s operating system (Windows Mobile 5.0) works on international and Japanese-language palmtops. The stand-alone (downloadable) version of Universalis has been altered to work round this problem, and the version now available for download from the Universalis site will work identically on Windows Mobile computers anywhere in the world.