Looking for old dev tools: Desk Accessories

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Frobozz

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I recently found a book called under the apple, which is an early Mac book about all the wonderfulness that can be achieved by using desk accessories. This is pre-switcher/multifinder era. It has a chapter on developer tools, and some of these look like they would be pretty helpful. I can't find anything about them except a few references to them in magazine articles. Nothing on Macintosh repository, info-mac. MacintoshGarden.org hasn't been working for me the last couple weeks (they ok??), so haven't been able to check there.

Anybody have suggestions or even a download link?
- MemScan. looks like a basic ML monitor.
- Explorer, by Jim Goodnow II. Another ML monitor type DA.
- DisAssembler, by Ronald Nicholson, Jr.
- ConCode. Appears to be a 68000 instruction set simulator.
- HeapShow. This looks really interesting. It was commercial unfortunately, and that may mean there are no extant copies.
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adespoton

adespoton

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Wow... that HeapShow brought back vivid memories, complete with smell! I used it back around 1990, and it behaved just like in the documentation -- unfortunately, all I had was a school copy, and that's long-gone today. It was great for being able to visually keep track of memory fragmentation, and I used it to compact the system heap, which sometimes resulted in some instability, especially if it stomped on a range currently in use. But for applications, it did a great job of illustrating what was actually going on in the heap, and helped me quickly find leaks and dereferenced pointers.
 
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