There is also FoxPro 2.6 for the Mac.
- It is a great high-level language, you can do
all kinds of GUI apps, everything short of
action game programming is easy. I guess you could do
an action game (I have a recollection of seeing 1 or
2 in the past), but I wouldn't recommend it. ;)
- It should be fairly inexpensive to purchase.
- It should be easy to find older books on FPM.
- There are many web sites (like www.universalthread.com)
where FPM users can find resources, since Fox is still
used today. And since FPM is cross-platform with FoxPro
2.6 for Windows as well as 2.6 for DOS and 2.6 of Unix,
you can use "their" programming resources or source
code or etc. Find a code snippet, copy-n-past it into the
FPM code editor and you're running.
- If your intention is to do something data-related,
I don't think you can find a better package for the 68k
Mac. And if you've got Office on that Mac, then you can control
Excel or Word from FPM, or vice versa.
Depending on what you want to do, FPM will probably get you there. The Fox
2.6 codebase is so large, you can still find it in many places that you
wouldn't expect. I just saw FPW being used (a new installation) for all of
the (Windows-based) cash registers in a mega-super market. Those machines
could just have easily been SE/30's running the same exact code (there are
some GUI extensions in FPM that FPW doesn't have, but you get the idea).
Oh, and if you want to make something to distribute, the Professional
edition (over the standard one) has the extras to compile your app into a
stand-alone installed executable that will run on any 68k Mac without a need
for FoxPro on their machine.
-----Original Message-----
On 5 Feb 2005, at 20:30, "Dowe G. Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody here know of a good website for learning how to program
> the 68k mac. Especially accessing the gui and os from asm code.
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