Comments on: MPW for OSX

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:14:23 +0000

I found some time last night to have a play with it. It all seems to be working, however the compiled 68K apps I have don’t seem to want to work on System 7, saying I need a newer version of MacOS. Hoping to have another go tonight and get something running.

Tenox, do you have the existing aclock mac port source?

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:49:17 +0000

In reply to Peter Godwin.

Doh – misinterpreted the purpose. This is for cross-compiling newer code to Mac 68K in OS X. Great idea – and perfect for aclock of course.
In theory, if GrayBox could be compiled for x86 you could get the GUI MPW tools running on Intel OS X…

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:34:03 +0000

I wonder if it might be possible to get GrayBox (https://launchpad.net/graybox/) building under that. It was used to get MacDraw running under OS X without Classic. http://www.dejamac.com/software/macdraw/

It was an interesting project, but tied to PPC Carbon which obviously won’t work anymore thanks to Rosetta no longer being included in OS X.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:25:56 +0000

wow that looks totally useless, and totally awesome at the same time!! although I wonder who’s holding on to so much 68000 based code these days… but it’s still incredibly promising!

By: calvin

calvin — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:26:58 +0000

perhaps this could blossom into something along the lines of a modern Executor