MicroView 2.5.0 alpha10 is now available from our website for win32, win64 and OSX platforms.  The Mac version no longer requires X, which is helpful if you run Mountain Lion 10.8.  There's two new plugins to try out, as well as the return of the basic bone analysis app.  Let us know what you think.  See http://www.parallax-innovations.com/microview for all download links to this pre-release version.

MicroView 2.5.0 alpha8 is now available from our website for win64 platforms; additional platforms to follow (once we undo the damage that upgrading to Mountain Lion has caused us on our Mac development machine).  This release has a number of major changes, including the replacement of the Tkinter-based user interface with a newer, more modern wxWidgets interface.  While in the long run this will make plugin development easier, and code management simpler, the porting process is not yet complete - many users will want to stay put with the 2.2 version of MicroView for now.  See http://www.parallax-innovations.com/microview for all download links to this pre-release version.

Over the past few years, the future of MicroView on the Mac platform was a bit grim: the only available binary was 32-bit, PPC-only, and relied on the Carbon compatibility layer. Performance was lacklustre compared to Windows and Linux releases. With the release of OS X Lion, the original distribution of MicroView on Apple hardware reportedly doesn't run at all. Jumping forward to today, however, the story is somewhat different - we've successfully ported the majority of the open-source components of MicroView to a 64-bit Intel Mac platform running OS X Lion 10.7.3. There's plenty more to do to stabilize the platform, but the majority of the technical hurdles have been crossed. See attached: a picture is worth a 1000 words.