Haha thank you. I thought it might be a bit too specific to ask here, but I couldn't find anywhere that might be better. That page you linked looks like it subscribes you to the dev mailing list, is there somewhere to contact them there?If you don't get an answer here, I would suggest asking this on the developer mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrocket/lists/openrocket-devel.
Great avatar BTW.
Yeah just send an email to the list after you sign up.
Ah, gotcha. I sent them an email, and if we figure out how to change it I'll post an update.
If it's not really well-matched to the topic of the thread (and in this case I think it is not) then best to just post a new thread with a suitably descriptive title. I don't know if what you're asking is of particularly wide interest, but it's much less likely to be found buried in this thread.
That's what I was thinking, seems obscure enough that it would only be found with its own thread. Thanks for all the help!
Speaking of the new release, when might this happen? and it would be nice for us Windows users that if a complete .msi installer. GitHub confuses me greatly.
I believe the installer is 32bit. I ran the installer and let it sit at the "Ready to Install" window, then launched Process Explorer from SysInternals and did some digging. Under the "Strings" tab, one of the printable strings reads as "This program must be run under Win32". So, if I am right, it saying it is a 32bit executable.
Well, at least according to this website, Win10 doesn't like old versions of JDK. And something loosely similar here (3rd to last post on page) .
As part of the packaged installer, Windows shouldn't care. But that second page suggests that the problem is Windows Firewall or Antivirus something or other, which is very plausible.
I’ll have my wife who is a lot smarter than me in computers do that disabling and then try to reinstall on the PC. In the mean time she installed it on a laptop running windows 10 64 bit. She tells me it worked. I haven’t checked it out yet.
Check your PMs.
In my experience the native M1 version runs about the same as the x86 version in Rosetta 2. At least, I couldn't notice any obvious difference, although I didn't do any really detailed performance comparisons. Just going by feel.
As Neil says, the x86 version works fine for me. My Linux workstation is an 8-core, 16-thread monster, and - as with most other workloads - the M1 is subjectively at least as fast in running OpenRocket. For anything not insanely multithreaded or requiring 3d graphics, the M1 with Rosetta is as fast or faster than any other machine I've used. It's really pretty amazing, and it's why I put up with it despite all of the MacOS quirks.
The issue I see with that though is that Apple is not likely to keep Rosetta 2 around forever and if they do remove it in a future update that will leave a growing number of Mac users stuck without a way forward. I agree though that the current x86 version runs very well with Rosetta.
This is a legitimate question but it seems that Rosetta 2 must still have several years of life in it (they're still selling Intel Macs, and are likely to be doing so for at least another year, unless they pull some big surprised). So this is an issue that we can probably defer for a while.
