When will this project be getting MacOS Apple Silicon ARM support, instead of only Intel and PowerPC like now?

Probably the underlying project Distributed.net needs to support Apple Silicon first

Sjmielh

Thanks for the reply, I'll contact them or their forum instead :)

Update:

Just tried this project anyway on my M4 Mac mini, and I immediately got 10 CPU task, 1 for each one of 10 CPU cores.

These were running under Rosetta 2 though, so not native, but still, it works, which means you can add MacOS ARM to the Applications page :)

These were running under Rosetta 2 though, so not native, but still, it works, which means you can add MacOS ARM to the Applications page :)

Better not, now you can run it as alternative platform when it is indeed available and when it is not available, nothing happens. If you add the current application as ARM, it will crush all tasks in case Rosetta isn't available, for example if Apple decides that their users don't need it anymore.

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But then you adapt to that new reality if/when it happens, right now there is a massive unused potential, cause Apple Silicon doesn't show up on the applications page, which means nobidy will with those devices will run the project. Most people won't care or even know that the project is using Rosetta 2, they just wanna run project that works, just like with gaming on Mac, a game that works is good enough.

But then you adapt to that new reality if/when it happens, right now there is a massive unused potential, cause Apple Silicon doesn't show up on the applications page

Better change the description of the current application or add a copy of it with a different name, whichever is easier to do. But definitely not create something, that needs to be permanently watched as it will break one day.

Most people won't care or even know that the project is using Rosetta 2, they just wanna run project that works

But they do know, that they can run programs written/compiled for Intel Macs? So why schould this not work? And if they don't know that, than that's another good reason not to release an application for them, which will stop working one day.

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