Developing my MacRefLib project on my LC 575?

[LC_575]

And here it is, attached.

MacRefLib 0.9 Classic

REQUIRES A MACINTOSH WITH 640x480x8 DISPLAY OR BETTER

There are two downloads: The Application download and the PICT files download. I kept them separate so I may update them separately, however you need BOTH files extracted into the same folder for MacRefLib to function correctly. Note: The IIsi, IIcx, and IIci don't have PICT files yet (coming soon).

Each download is a self-extracting .sea archive.

If, for the future, a different file format would be more preferable (disk image, for example), then please tell me here.

PS: MacRefLib (256) is the 256 Color version; likewise MacRefLib (Thousands) is the Thousands of Colors version. Both versions are Fat binaries that will run on 68k or Power Macintoshes.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32151493/MacRefLib.sea

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32151493/MacRefLib%20PICTS.sea

 

[Cory5412]

codenames.... yay.

This is a really good idea though. (I really owuldn't consider adding content to be worthy of version numbers though.)

Anyway, if you want it to work well on hardware as old as, say, the original Mac II, I'd consider backing the authoring down to a monochrome stack and possibly using HyperCard 2.0 through 2.3. The color bits in HyperCard 2.4.1 were never particularly high-performance even on some of the highest end machines, and I suspect part of why Apple never bothered to update it is that by the time it needed an update, Mac OS X was available, and more content authors were using web technologies to do it.

Another product you may look at if you're into the stack metaphor but want something that integrates color a lot better is SuperCard. There are probably demos and binaries available, but SuperCard starts with color support from the beginning, instead of adding it as an XCMD, like HyperCard does. This means that anybody to whom you distribute the stack and player will be able to see it. I don't know how well SuperCard works on the oldest of machines however.

 

[LC_575]

I considered SuperCard, but there are some things (such as shared fields) that were simply not ported over, which then may break functionality.

As for performance, my Mac LC 575 seems to go along satisfactorily, and it's only an 68LC040. I have not had a chance to test it on my IIsi, simply because I can't get video out of it (btw, can anyone help me with that? I know it's a working computer - I just can't get any monitors to sync to it.)

 

[Byrd]

IIsi stock video will only work on sync-on-green fixed frequency monitors (67Hz), so finding a display that does this/both things is trying. The original Apple 13 or 14" Trinitron worked well on these.

Hypercard was always pretty slow on anything, this is the price you pay for having a nice easy-to-use app that does a lot.

JB

 

[wgoodf]

good effort! :-*

 

[LC_575]

I spent the last few days painting porches, cleaning, and taking a break from MacRefLib. Development will resume in a day or two. Bring on the PowerBooks!

 

[MidnightCommando]

Well LC575, this is amazing.

You're making me look bad with how fast you're porting data over!

I am working on a similar project but in book form, perhaps with some editorialising - my own personal cut-off is the introduction of the New World ROM (so, about 1998).

Don't you love that now Intel Macs are all the rage, the myriad PPC configurations are no longer a moving target? }