retrospectMike

Hadnt heard of AmendHub. Will check it out

Interesting to read about the issue. This is my first time posting source code on git written on a vintage machine. Honestly the source code tracking, the way Ive done it, is not very useful. I dont blame git and I can’t say there aren’t ways to configure it to be more useful.

Classic Macintosh also used “data forks” and “resource forks” as part of all files. I know Windows strips the resource fork part (by accident as it has no awareness of it) — so any Macintosh file that uses its resource fork will be broken. This includes the THINKC project file and the .rsrc file in the repo! Tldr - anyone interested in using the source code should just grab the .sit file and bring it to their emulator/or vintage machine and unstuff it there to preserve resource forks. But anyone in the vintage mac space knows all this by now :). Sharing it as fyi here! So proud to see my little app make HN!!!!

I love the old Macintosh stuff. I never owned a compact mac but when I got one recently and decided to try programming I wanted to do it the way they did it back then using the hardware and whatever ran well on my SE/30 (which at first was System 6 but the textbook that the study group on TinkerDifferent was using was written for 7 so i switched!). No internet needed (and I’m not (un?)lucky enough to own any networking hw for it. Just transfered the files out using floppies or my SCSI to SD device)

Hello! MacDock creator here. As another person posted below you can see some of the development details on the two tinkerDifferent threads (one was the study group one and then after I felt my posts were too much of the convo I made a new thread). Anyway i did it mostly on my physical SE (upgraded with an SE/30 motherboard before I started programming and I will say compiling is much faster on that). I admit I did some of it in an emulator but I was interested in giving my machine and awesome M0116 keyboard some real use. Its been awesome fun!

! MacDock creator here.

I didn’t know this! I’ll read up on that as the name is familiar but I have never used it!