Hello Michael:

I have been using the no-save trial version on my iMac. The main thing about MoI I like is not so much what it can do, but what it helps to avoid. It seems that we can work with Corel Draw and this software to produce our dials and avoid CAD altogether. That is a relief because I found CAD, especially AutoCAD, tedious, even though I am quite familiar with it.

So, we have decided to purchase MoI, but there is no urgency. As it appears to be fairly soon we will await the rollout of v4, inasmuch I expect it will have a different UI than what I am working with now.

If there will be an email sent out re this launch, then fine. Otherwise I will check your website from time to time.

Thanks

Andrew

(P.S. No pressure!)

Hi Andrew, that's great I am glad that MoI will be useful for you!

It is a big goal for MoI to not lose the simplicity and streamlined-ness of it, the v4 UI is like 99% the same as v3.

Thanks, - Michael

Michael:

Your reply to me on 9 Jan says the following:

"It is a big goal for MoI to not lose the simplicity and streamlined-ness of it, the v4 UI is like 99% the same as v3.

But in an earlier reply on 26 Dec you said that " for v4 the Mac version is significantly different - it's a native compiled Mac app, while v3 and earlier used a porting mechanism called Wineskin."

Perhaps you mean the difference lies in the architecture and not the UI? If the UI is different than the version I am using now on my iMac then I prefer to wait until the launch and leave this current learning curve.
But if the UI is similar to the version I am now using, then fine.

Hope this makes sense!

Thanks

Andrew

I think the UI should not change.

-Yuan

MoI4Beta is superb! IMHO
I'm using the beta nearly exclusively.

- Brian

Hi Andrew, yes it's the internal architecture of the program code that is significantly different for v4 (especially for the Mac version), not the UI. The UI remains almost completely the same as before.

But the native Mac build fixes numerous glitches for the Mac version that were side effects of the "Wineskin" mechanism used for v3. Stuff like Retina displays supported now, you can size windows from any edge instead of only from the corner like OSX 10.6 behavior, Full screen mode is supported, and more.

Also v4 is now a 64-bit program and so can use all system memory instead of having 32-bit limits.

There are also a lot of improvements to basic functions like file loading and display speed.

- Michael

Hi Michael-
Great tip!!!!
Thanks,
Robert