I just realised I made a big mistake.

The start date for this thread was not June but April 2005 which means that our third anniversary has come and gone without the appropriate acknowledgement. So happy anniversary everyone.

We're now into our fourth year of waiting!!

Personally, I'm fine with waiting. I know how software development goes, and they wanna get all the bugs worked out before they release it. For now, I'm fine using synergy with my PC and Mac, it works and that's all I need. As soon as Multi is released for Mac, I'll jump ship. Just realize that it's not as simple as "boom it's done and works on your mac"... they're gonna have to support intel and PPC macs, and most likely they're going to want to support Leopard and Tiger, and programming on mac is a different case than pc. There's a lot of things you should take into consideration before you go off getting all pissy. Look how long Vista was put off for release, granted it wasn't as long, but they had a hell of a lot more devs working for them than Stardock does on Multi.

Vista is an OS not a single function utility!! You must be sleeping with someone at Stardock to believe that crap.

IMO, the devs working on Multi - as you put it - is 0. Stardock just won't admit it! That's why I'm "pissy".

Not much to say... Still waiting.

Bumpage....come on kick their arse Seabass.  Compared to Synergy, any beta from Stardock has to be better than any open source community driven product.  You have to go to 2 or 3 different websites to get the version you need for Synergy to work on Windows and Mac.  Even then, you need more than a passing interest to get it configued to work.  If you have guys have a functional beta, hook us up, even if it's limited to platforms/kernal versions. 

Help us Seabass, you're our only hope  

/em takes off the Princess Leia danish styled earmuffs.

Thank you Jasonhuff. There is new hope on the horizon since I brought this all to question again to the developers.

I won't bring up details but I'm bound to be flamed again for even responding. I am simply posting to make people who ask kindly (and with pop culture referance) that I am not ignoring this thread.

 

Thanks to this thread though I will make one promise in this regard:

I will scream it from the heavens when Multi is Mac ready.

 

/flame off I understand what it's like to work in a development cycle that spins faster than the people implementing it.

Scream it from the heavens?? Given the way it's going, I hope you don't mean as a permanent resident  

 

Thank you for your concern but I do work tech support. For something like that one would also have to get in line.

Well here we are again. Another year nearly gone and still no OS X client for Multiplicity.

If there is anyone out there who is fed up with waiting for the OS X client, it's time to make some noise. I'm in Australia which limits the access I have to the people at Stardock. But if your in the US why don't you start hammering SD with phone calls or faxes. Anything to get the message across or at least get them to admit it's vaporware.

If the Bangkok airport protestors can force a change in government, surely we can get SD to pull their fingers out an come clean.

 

Obviously they have no intention of ever releasing the Mac version, I just don't understand why they don't come out and announce this to get the griping out of the way in one big chunk instead of having it linger for like 4 more years. 

PS.  I predict that the next excuse will be that now they have to build in support for Windows 7 and Snow Leopard.

     

 

 

I think after almost 4 years I'm going to reply to my own post...   lol

I wonder if we can beat Duke Nukem' Forever in the longer development cycle for a program people want. 

Just get Synergy. http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

I have tried that... but it does not work well when your in a Game (WoW) on the PC and go over to the Mac... WoW minimizes on the main system and there is a huge pause when switching machines...   so nothing good for that... if all I did was work with it in windows Synergy would work just fine other than the outdated install method for the Mac.

 

I use to use a program called Kavoom when I jused 2 PC's but now that one is a Mac I can't use that program or Multiplicity...

synergy has an option to not minimize when you movea computer running a fullscreen DX app

pretty funny it's still not here, guess it never will be

Beyond funny.

● OS X client in development.

At some point in time you have to realize that you are not capable of producing this product and be honest with your customers and the public. To continue to still have this development information posted in the product description when you are aware that customers purchase based on this information is dishonest.

This thread was started four years ago. If you need a cross platform compatible application like Multiplicity, look elsewhere.

Happy anniversary everyone!  Last Thursday was the fourth anniversary of the start of this thread.

 

For four years, Mutiplicity users have been asking for the promised OS X client - supposedly still in development. For four years Stardock's BS artists have been deliberately misleading its customers with crap like the following:

 

Neil Banfield, June 22, 2005

The OS X version is still in development and should be in the 1.1 release.

 

Brad Wardell, June 29, 2005

Sometime this Summer.  Between the move, vacations, etc. our schedule is a bit in flux.

 

"Frogboy", September 22, 2005

We're beta testing it internally.  If you have ThinkDesk, the beta of it should show up there soon too.

 

Neil Banfield, April 5, 2006

We have now obtained an intel based mac as well for testing and I hope once KeepSafe 1.0 is released we can look at releasing a beta. Unless something happens in the next few days, I expect KS 1.0 to be released in April 2006.

 

Neil, Brad and Frogoy. Your contempt for your own customers is despicable. You are nothing but a bunch of pathetic liars. None of you have the guts to admit the truth and Stardock should be condemned for allowing this charade to go on as long as it has.

 

Happy anniversary everyone!

So, uh... about that OSX client release...

 

/looks around cautiously.

Yeah there isn't one and I'm pretty sure there is no plan to make one.

I have long since uninstalled and stopped using multiplicity completely because I need a solution that I can use from my windows boxes to my macs..

Multiplicity is great for windows to windows but in any other situation you are just hozed.   Use Synergy instead.  Its the only option available.

It was years since I moved from Multiplicity to Synergy and I thought I'd pop into Stardock to see what had become of the OS X client. Sadly, after 4 years of being "in development" it's still nowhere to be seen. Classic vaporware.

 

I've been a Stardock customer since the OS/2 days and have never known Stardock to behave in this manner with any other product. Luckily, since i've moved to an all-Mac environment I wont have to use Stardocks products anymore (in fact I can't even if I wanted to).

 

Stardock needs to realize that this has alienated not just the new customers being suckered into buying Multiplicity by the "Client in development"-bullet but also longtime customers who have had to watch Stardock as a company over-promising and under-delivering on this product - again and again.

 

You've lost all credibility at this point and will not be getting any more of my business. Now that that's out of the way, maybe you should give the Stardock programmer (I assume at this glacial pace there is only one) some time off. If he's alone working on all those products, no wonder the OS X stuff gets pushed to the bottom at every possible turn, he must be overworked and need some time off.

synergyplus is a fork of synergy and they've come out with an update recently. you can find it on google code and it's worth looking into. it shouldn't take 4 years to release this software for mac os from beta stage.

I too have finally given up on OS X version of Multipicity. It's too bad, I really like Multiplicity Pro and have been using since its release, but, one of my primary notebooks is a Macbook Pro now. I am always using at least 3 computers, here at home and at my work. Having keyboard/mouse sharing like Multiplicity is MUST for me, but, sadly, no OS X and I am sure there never will be an OS X version of Multiplicity. It's a shame.

You know, I don't understand why Stardock doesn't just contract out the developent and get it done. This isn't a difficult application to develop. Where I work, when we begin to slip into vaporware with a project, we contract it out and get're done!

Oh, and I was able to get SynergyPlus up and running just fine. I was a little confused about the configuration, but otherwise it seems to work really well. I may donate some of my time to improving that project and greatly enhance the configuration process. The core application seems to work just fine, now putting a good front-end on it like Multiplicity would polish it off. Could be a good "free" alternative to Multiplicity.

Wow. It's 2010.   .   So I am pleased to announce MULTIPLICITY ALPHA FOR THE MAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

And then the dream was over. So I guess we can declare this one officially dead? 

 

BTW folk, you guys have heard of Synergy KM right? It's a Synergy GUI build specifically for the Mac.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm/ I am using that and synergy-plus 1.4 and it works like Magic.

 

Hey, maybe with luck, stardock will charge us $43.99 to pre-order and be in the Multiplicity Alpha test like they did with object dock. HA! HA! HA! Stardock, you guys are truly my heroes!

 

eagerly awaiting more empty promises!  You productivity MONSTERS!