MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)

Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by duskwuff on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:41PM (#16525629)

I'm still holding out hope that, at some point, Apple will release the source code to one or more versions of Classic Mac OS. The commercial value has got to be minimal -- it's been off the market since ~2002, and it's all for a platform that no longer exists -- and there's some very interesting stuff in there, like the nanokernel and 68k JIT, or Macintalk, or AOCE...

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Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by Digital-Citizen on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:26PM (#16526167)

That software and MacPaint might be more useful to people if it were released as free software: software that respects people's freedom to run, inspect, modify, and share published software even commercially. As it is, there's no language in the license ("This Material is Copyright © 1984 Apple Inc. and is made available only for non-commercial use.") that allows one to do much of anything with MacPaint.

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Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by memsom on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:09AM (#16527759)

There was some shady Classic Mac OS Source floating about on a Hotline server I used to have access to. I looked at it, but I think it was almost totally in 68000 assembler, so it had minimal use/interest to me at the time.

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Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by duskwuff on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @02:38PM (#16531398)

You're probably thinking of the System 7.1 leak. I've seen that -- it's interesting, but woefully incomplete.

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Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by Aloha on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:45AM (#16529494)

AOCE is something that was just 15 years ahead of its time - it also had some minor (correctable) structural flaws - but still, its a very early peer to peer system, that mostly worked.

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Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by coldnose on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:23PM (#16525861)

And don't forget Cyberdog!

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