Hello,
As I said in older questions, we(I and my friend) are trying to develop in a Macintosh IIci(System 7.5.5 68k processor), but we don't know where to start, then I'm asking here for some resources to develop on it. Thanks.
+4
A:
Buy yourselves a copy of Inside Macintosh (PDF), the official developer documentation for Mac OS (classic). Back issues of MacTech magazine are a good high-level place to start. In the day, MacTech was the journal for mac developers.
It's been a lot of years, but the prominent application frameworks in classic Mac OS were Metrowerks' PowerPlant, Symantec's Think Class Library. If you have a Metrowerks compiler, stick with PowerPlant, which has been open-sourced.
Barry Wark
2009-10-28 23:36:04
Any version of PowerPlant that's likely to be circulating around out there will probably not build under 7.5.
Azeem.Butt
2009-10-29 00:02:08
@NSD True, but viewing the source may be informative.
Barry Wark
2009-10-29 00:16:15
+5
A:
The Macintosh Programmer's Workshop might be a good place to start.
Carl Norum
2009-10-28 23:40:32
+2
A:
If you're going to develop for older versions of MacOS like System 7.x then you may want to use Pascal. Here are possible books and tools to look at:
Books
- Inside Macintosh: Toolbox Essentials
- Inside Macintosh: Imaging with Quickdraw
Tools
- Metrowerks CodeWarrior 8 (or 10): PPC & 68K, Pascal, C, C++
- Think Pascal/Think C: 68K only, Pascal or C
- MacsBug
Michael Shopsin
2010-06-21 13:22:38