Codewarrior Pro 5 questions...

[cb88]

So I was able to get an ISO of codewarrior onto my PB190... and as soon as I mounted the disk with the Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Utility I get a popup saying that it doesn't run on 68k...

Now it appears that the bundled MPW works fine... however the the Codewarrior IDE 4.0 itself does not?

Any comments on that? Everything I have read online says that it runs on 68k.... if that is not the case I may just grab 4.0. Or perhaps it would be possible to use the older IDE version with the newer tools?

Also I have switched my PB190 over to an 8Gb CF card internally.... all one partition which works nicely on MacOS 8.0

 

[techknight]

that version of codewarrior might be a bit too new. 

 

[cb88]

Apparently after some googling around... I found that people acutally reccomended Codewarrior Pro 4 as the last version... beats me what whoever wrote up that list that indicates CW Pro 5 as the last version... its more like it installs and can probably build code but as a whole it doesn't work as an IDE. Apparently IDE 3.3 was the last version to support 68k which is what is in CW Pro 4.

Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to get CW 4 found a copy floating around on the internet but I have no idea if it is complete (it is 200+ Mb though)... I found a copy of CW Pro 5 that I am pretty sure is complete around 1Gb+ for that. I've been watching Ebay as well... I guess its a good thing I tried out CW 5 before I bought it just to find it was the wrong version!

 

[trag]

Anyone know the taxonomy of the Codewarrior version numbers?

I know there were at least two sequences, because I have an academic copy of CW 10 Gold or some such, which predates the CW Pro versions, I think. I'm not sure if there was another sequence in between, or subsequently, or both.

 

[cb88]

Supposedly this is the list of versions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/macos9/-hOUjohAkis

I know some of the guys around here are using CW Pro 1 for compatiblity with each other... not sure why they chose that version over CW Pro 4 perhaps its less of a resource hog dunno?

 

[Emehr]

I had started a Numbers spreadsheet of all of the versions of CodeWarrior using the Jonathan Hoyle info (in the link above) as a starting point. Then I went through the old metrowerks.com site snapshots at Internet Archive to try and nail down some missing release dates and extra info for each version, such as minimum host-OS version. I've even been trying to grab images of the box designs and datasheets for each version. Right now I'm focusing more on the later Pro versions since my target is PPC. The list is far from complete. It's a long process and I might never finish it, but it helps in my own searches.

Not sure if this helps but here's what I have for minimum host-OS version requirements:

Pro 5 requires v7.6.1

Pro 6 requires v8.6/v10 DP4 (last version to compile for 68K)

Pro 7 requires v8.6/v10.1

Pro 8 requires v9.2.2/10.1.3

Pro 9 only runs on OS X (v10.2)

One thing is for certain, copies of CodeWarrior, either disks or images, are amazingly elusive.

 

[cb88]

Don't forget... Pro 5 doesn't really run on 68k as the IDE doesn't support 68k at that point though the compiler does.

There are a couple copies of CW Pro 5 on ebay... and CW Pro 7 I saw come up recently quite expensive though.

 

[LOOM]

I've tried CW Pro 4 and it works on 68k

 

[olePigeon]

I may have a bunch of programming software for 68k Mac.  It came with my LC.  But I don't have any of the books, so I don't know how useful the programs will be.  I'll have to go through the floppies.