At 10:57 +1000 on 16/07/01, louisa sher wrote:
>i'd like to know how i can set up my mac SE to do some similar programming
Hmmm...
>i'd assume it already has a language it prefers, applesoft or some such.
Well, not in the same way the Apple II has, that's for sure.
You basically have three or four choices:
Learn/play with C or some variant thereof.
Same as above but Pascal instead of C.
Same as above but 68000 assembler instead of C.
Find a BASIC compiler that will run on an SE.
#1-3 are not nearly as easy as I might make them sound, particularly #3.
None of those three languages are easy to learn and all three are rather
complex once you try to do real-world stuff.
#4 is probably the best idea but the hardest to do because finding a BASIC
compiler for the SE is, well, difficult. I know of one, maybe two, old
ones - TrueBASIC is the only one that comes to mind right away - and
they're difficult to find at best. TrueBASIC was also commercial, so
finding a legit copy is going to be even harder.
Try a Google search for TrueBASIC and you might find something.
>is there a manunal out there for this kind of thing?
Google is probably your best bet at this point, although half.com has
occasional stock of old Mac programming books that could be useful.
p
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