22 Jul
2010
22 Jul
'10
6:44 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I did see something at the top of Paintasm.a that
I'm hoping comes
with the right development environment:
.INCLUDE MAC:GRAFTYPES.TEXT
.INCLUDE MAC:SYSEQU.TEXT
.INCLUDE MAC:SYSMACS.TEXT
.INCLUDE MAC:TOOLEQU.TEXT
.INCLUDE MAC:GRAFEQU.TEXT
.INCLUDE MAC:TOOLMACS.TEXT
Are there any old-time Mac developers on the list who might remember
what tools/files are needed to turn this code back into a working
binary?
I would guess, given the dates on the files (1983) that they did the
work on a Lisa. Even in
1984 I had to use a Lisa to build code. I can't remember what tools
were used, but
there was an editor, an assembler and a resource compiler which put it
all together. We
did a lot of "sneaker net" with floppies. And we learned to swear at
the 5mb profile disk
drives.
I've never used Think Pascal, but I did use Think C (LightSpeed C) a
lot. I wonder if you could port it
to Think Pascal... I would think you could. Or maybe it would "just
build" using MPW. I doubt it,
however. MPW and the Lisa didn't share much as I recall.
-brad