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Do you take requests? The emulator SNES9x was compiled for OS 9 and X ages ago, but the last versions used are quite buggy. The game Mario Paint has this issue where the mouse crashes into the middle of the screen, thinking it has hit the edge when it has clearly not. Luckily, the current version of SNES9x has fixed this, however, there is no PPC port. Luck on our side, the source code for the latest version IS available and free to tinker with, but I don't possess the know-how on getting it compiled for PPC, namely for OS 9 (preferably), although some would probably appreciate an OS X release of it as well. Might you or anyone here in the comments be willing to get it up and running? That would be so epic!!!

I don't understand how anyone could have made a fully featured program by themselves for classic Mac OS. Yet I remember a LOT of them at the time. Very impressive

Maxmediapro 2 ,is quite good on windows, been using for years, still going even on windows 11, and it compiles to exe. also Decker looks good if you like the black and white hypercard look.

I bought an ibook G3 snow to be a word processing machine, but I can't even get Microsoft word to work with it. Looks like I'm making one from zero

I hope someone can reply but what might have been the use case for a rsrc file independant of a program or an other file at 21:24?

This is Internet Gold! Thanks for the video! Very useful for people like me who enjoy using classic Mac OS.

You're a wizard! Please keep creating more content 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I’m.a little weirded out as I just came across this video just after waking up (watching some TH-cam before getting up).

This looks easier than Lightspeed C which I was puzzling over back in the day… 😂

I wonder if there's some modern implementation, perhaps with color support.

Could you make a tutorial about how to use the new Appearance Manager controls, especially those new textboxes which you can drag text blocks from and to? I've read those header files for days but still have no idea. Thank you so much.

Useless? This is a goldmine! It saddens me to see the dismal state of software these days. Open source has plunged us into a permanent state of mediocrity.

is processing not some kind of new Hypercard? Loved trying out the tools in Hypercard on my IIci

I learned early Apple GUI development on an Apple IIgs, whose operating system was kind of a slightly evolved version of Mac System ~3. It had a function called TaskMaster() (and TaskMasterDA() for desk accessories) that was more or less what is being described at 1:17:24.

Ah yes, the good old days. Today development is too much tech diarrhea. People need to relearn the value of simplicity. To really learn how to do it get Dave Mark's Macintosh C Programming Primer.

I remember all this... Starting with CW10 Gold. Thanks!

I just started my useless dev journey into Mac OS 9 programming, thank you so much for this!!!

And there was NewtCard, a Hypercard clone for the Apple MessagePad. It was made by NS Basic Corporation in the late 90s. NewtCard created stacks on the Newton device and used a slate pad UI and tools. It was scripted in a Basic clone made by the same company. It wasn't as powerful as HC. But it produced DBs and simple programs.

Wasn't HyperCard run under the 68LC040 emulator on PPC Macs? AFAIK, it was never ported to PPC, and that was one of the reasons it died off as an obsolete authoring platform, and things like Macromedia Director replaced it, especially since Director had the Shockwave plugin for browsers, and they made a more optimized version, Shockwave Flash, aka. just "Flash" later. Apple/Claris could've gone that route as well, and released some HyperCard browser plug-in, but I guess they lacked the foresight to do so.

And MacPaint had Mac Draw in the same file. You could rasterize pixel drawings. God I miss the Apple I used to know. And HyperCard was awesome. Scripts and graphics multimedia, etc. layers, templates, no ppt no complex apps. you know what happened. Tech went to the dark side. Everything is internet sales. All my stupid browsers do the same thing… sell you stuff.

I used hypercard to make hypercard programming tools to suit my own ends. I wonder if I can find it now

Very interesting. I love it. I'd be interested in seeing it in Pascal too. C++ is great, but I feel like Pascal is more retro. :D

Thank you for the video! Have you ever used regex for character analysis? It seems like it would be a bit more efficient rather than a switch statement analyzing specific characters. Regardless, I do appreciate this video very much! It has helped me understand tokenizing a lot more.

I really appreciate your commitment! I reckon you probably weren't interested in 68k assembly, but what drove the decision to use C++? I was under the impression they used Pascal.

We need Hypercard back for VisionOS and AR

Who remembers SuperCard?

I currently work in CodeWarrior on a game that I’ve got the source code from. It’s a big title from the 90s. It’s amazing to see you work in OS9 in the IDE of CodeWarrior. I really think it is an amazing tool without all the fuss and functionality today. It would be amazing to get in touch with you as you can probably be helpful in my project.

I would have loved to have this video 27 years ago. Yet even today I enjoy watching it.

Thanks for intuitive video series.

Hey those are great videos, and maybe you have the knowledge to help me with my issue, After installing Codeworrior 10 Gold, on reboot I get an error message " Sorry, a system error occurred, MetroNub 1.2 illegal instruction" and advises to disable the extension. if I disable the extension the system works, but I cant get the debugger to work. Any idea how to fix the issue?

As a young HyperCard enthusiast, I always wondered how Myst was made. This video series is such a delight. Thanks!

R.I.P. HyperCard

Ja z laborek z hihu. Kocham XML, kocham PG.

Nice _Secret of Monkey Island_ reference. I got to work with HyperCard in High School in '90/'91 instead of taking the usual required computers class (which was all Apple 2 stuff I already knew and could have taught.) I made a little bit of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style thing with HyperCard... it was fun.

God, I miss making crappy little adventure games with Hypercard like I did when I was a kid.

wow!

I like how you mentioned SmallTalk because Hypercard's GUI was like that but more ... fantastic. Sometimes nostr (eg. its protocol of "notes") seems to have the potential for a globally distributed, encrypted, plug and play set of "card" based applications. But Hypercard's scripting was so cool it made you geel like a programmer ... 😍

Just found your channel - Excellent Content! - Would be cool to see how to do Python programming on OS9

Ha! I just setup CW on my PowerBook G3 and build a couple sample apps. I loved CW back in the late 90s up til apple killed it with Xcode and OS X. Such a much more fun development environment back in the pre OS X days. I got an issue with CW9 and the MetroNub extension crashing so brought it up to Pro 6 and all good. Built for 68k PPC and Carbon. Now I’m tempted to hit the storage and grab all my jaz disks full of all my old source code I kept from my jobs back then. Fun stuff!

stop wasting bla bla and work out what you going to say and then just go and say it.. 2 hours..

Hey buddy, how can build bin overlays for PSX and PS2.

I have an old game engine, and one of the files extension is .ppob or ppobj. The developer said that it's an carbon file. I'm a noob into coding, so how can I properly compile it? I have sheepshaver with Mac os 9.

great insights - if anyone of the younger watchers interested, 1979 the work on C++ started, first official version was come to live around 1985 , ISO standardization of the language in 1998, and the features highlighted here took more than another decade...

fwiw I made the source code to my 1996 PenStorm program for classic Mac available. I rebuilt it recently with Metrowerks 8.3 and uploaded it to Macintosh Repository.

Will you be making a video on MacZoop?

After watching this I really appreciate your Appkit for Classic project.

There is a successor of hypercsrd, Livecode

thanks

We should protect this person at all costs! Thank you.

Have an old project that I have to modify. Someone I know used the macclassic toolbox to make a windows program. This allowed old Mac programs to run in windows which was handy until I had to modify it. Now I need to learn how to do it. Thanks for the tutorial for ancient is development. PS my colleague said that the code was created when he was 5 years old!