I don't know if this has any actual significance for anyone wanting to run IMatch on a Mac, but thought it was interesting anyway.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/microsoft-officially-blesses-parallels-as-a-way-to-run-windows-on-m1-m2-macs/
Maybe the tl;dr is the comment at the end of the article:
"But today's announcement is another signal that virtualization and cloud computing are the way forward for people who need to run Windows apps on their Mac; if you're still hoping for an Apple Silicon version of Boot Camp, it's time to start moving on."
Thanks for sharing. Interesting.
Maybe I'm wrong but " The Arm version of Windows running under Parallels has some limitations..."
Will IMatch run on ARM Windows version?
IMatch does not run on ARM. That's a different processor architecture (not Intel/AMD compatible).
I think I've read somewhere that there is an "Intel on ARM" virtualization feature - not sure how fast that would be.
Before Apple switched to their own M1/M2 processors, running Windows software on Macs was easy. Now, not anymore. Another row of bricks for Apple's walled garden.
Quote from: Mario on February 18, 2023, 05:16:14 PMWindows does not run on ARM.
Did you mean to say "IMatch does not run on ARM"? (Yes, from the thread context; I just wanted to check.)
Quote from: medgeek on February 18, 2023, 05:49:35 PMDid you mean to say "IMatch does not run on ARM"? (Yes, from the thread context; I just wanted to check.)
Yep. My bad. Fixed.
Currently Parallels sucks on the M1. I was not able to run a second MacOS-Version under this VM: The Setting was greyed out (So you can not set e.g. the Memory for the VM). I needed this for testing Software on a clean Mac-System, but not possible.
I did not tried the Windows version so far, because the "ARM-Version" is the big limitation. Can you buy something with Windows ARM? I have on idea, but what is usable on this one? I think most of the Windows programms are only compiled for x86, because nobody would care about something which makes you extra work but give you no money.
Windows ARM is quite a 'niche' product at this time.
I have other projects which can be compiled for Intel and ARM and run on Windows/Linux/MacOS.
But these use a different programming language and a different 'framework' than IMatch uses. No way for me to port IMatch to ARM, sorry. This would take a looooong time and cost a TON of money. Which I would never be able to recoup...
When I would write an "IMatch 10.x", I would base it on the IMatch Anywhere architecture (IMWS).
IMWS designed and implemented so that it runs on Windows / Linux / MacOS and the IMatch front-end (what the user works with) running in a browser (or in a browser masked as an "app") - on any platform.