From: "Chris \"Zap\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Development on the 68k Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:36:13 -0500
yes, yet another odd question...
Does anyone on the list happen to dabble in programming for the 68k Macs, or know of a place where I may find some insight or development tools? I have a rather odd project that I may possibly delegate to some of these old machines. I just need to learn more about writing programs for them. I'd rather do it with a Mac than a PC if possible :>)
It depends on what you want to do. There were/are several development tools for 68K Macs. These include Apple's MPW environment. There may still be old versions available or the current version may still include 68K development tools. I've never used MPW, so I don't know. If you ask in one of the comp.sys.mac.programmer.* news groups I'm sure someone will be able to help out.
Think C was a nice C environment for the Mac from (I think) Symantec. I think it was from someone else originally and was sold to Symantec, maybe. Anyway, it got up to version 5 or 6 and fit on four floppies. It was pretty nice in its day.
One of the Learn C books by Dave Marks (IIRC) came with a reduced version fo Think C called Thin C. It fit on one floppy.
Thin C and Think C might be hard to find.
Codewarrior included 68K development in its environment quite late in the product line, and may still. I have Code Warrior Academic Pro 10 and it has 68K support. It also includes a variety of useful books in PDF format. Included were, "Learn C on the Macintosh", "Learn C++ on the Mac", and "Programming Starter Kit" amongst others.
If you want to program devices or create cards, you probably need something like Apple's "Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family" as well as the Devices book from Inside Macintosh. The latter is available on Apple's site as a PDF but I've never found a link chain to it. I only found it through a Google link.
All that said, I don't actually know much about programming on the Mac. I have a number of tools and am ever so slowly educating myself, but I'd be happy to read comments from anyone who can point at faster better stronger ways to learn programming on the Mac.
Jeff Walther
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