Bol Processor 2.9.8 (Mac version) had been around for eight years and required very few bug fixes. However, it had to be completely rebuilt to work with MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) and future versions. The highest system version supporting BP 2.9.8 was MacOS 10.14 (Mojave).
The graphical interface was completely redesigned for this purpose. We decided to develop a console server application, which receives instructions via command lines. The console successfully compiled on many systems including MacOS, Linux and Windows with 64-bit Intel processors.
This new application (BP3) is linked to a graphical user interface programmed in PHP. This requires a web server on which to run on (MAMP or XAMPP) but allows anyone with a web browser to try out BP3 without installing anything (follow this link).
We recently created a standalone version of BP3 running in MacOS, Windows and Linux environments. The MacOS version is ready, but there are still a few issues that need to be resolved to reach the state of a distribution of the Windows version.
➡ We invite software designers to join the team and contribute to the development of the core application and its client applications. Please join the BP open discussion forum and/or the BP developers list to stay in touch with the progress of the work and to discuss related musical or theoretical/technical issues.