At 08:15 -0800 2/22/05, Dave Huseby wrote: >What's the easiest way to develop for these old machines?
One can still download Apple's MPW - Macintosh Programmer's Workshop - from the Apple web site. It's a bit hard to find but it can be done. It comes with libraries, linker, compiler, and assembler. MPW is a UNIXy shell that I like but most trained UNIX folks find less than satisfying because it's not a "true" shell. It does have things like make, and C and Pascal tools though. MPW uses a file<->Window equivalence that I like but it's not Linux or OS neXt where two terminal windows are two different processes. In MPW you can redirect output from one window into another! You will need a set of "Inside Macintosh" volumes which are available as PDF now but were once published by Addison Wesley. Find a set of paper ones if you can. About 3 feet of bookshelf required. I used MPW starting with, about, system 4 and it was expensive and only came with Essential Tools and Objects which was a subscription to a periodic release on CD-ROM. There was a lot of sample code available there. There were "integrated" environments from Symantec, Code Warrior, Consulaire and probably others. For simple stuff MPW offers a terminal like window (SIO for simple input/output) which will run getc/putc type C. You might also look at Hypercard, the original, which allows programming that makes it easy to link to CODE modules you can write in C with MPW. You can also link as an "MPW tool" which works like a UNIX executable with command line arguments. As for the 512k and less than 68020 chips Pascal may be best. You needed a Lisa in the early days for that. There is an MPW mailing list which Apple continues to tolerate: List-Subscribe: <http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/mpw-dev>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <-- -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:compact.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
