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Toolbox reference for MacOS 9?

Crutch

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Pretty basic question here but basically all my software dev has been for the Sys 7 era …

What’s the gold standard documentation for the Toolbox as it existed in the MacOS 9 era? New Inside Mac printed volumes date to the early ‘90s, I’m sure newer (for example) File Manager* calls were introduced later. This would also be way later than whenever THINK Reference was last updated. Clearly one could look at the Universal Headers that shipped with later versions of CW or something, but I’m interested in documentation. Is there a toolbox reference on the E.T.O CD-ROMs or something? What does one use for this?

@cheesestraws maybe knows things?

*in fact I am specifically looking for the most up-to-date materials on the File Manager for MacOS 9 — but interested in the more general answer too
 

Phipli

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Pretty basic question here but basically all my software dev has been for the Sys 7 era …

What’s the gold standard documentation for the Toolbox as it existed in the MacOS 9 era? New Inside Mac printed volumes date to the early ‘90s, I’m sure newer (for example) File Manager* calls were introduced later. This would also be way later than whenever THINK Reference was last updated. Clearly one could look at the Universal Headers that shipped with later versions of CW or something, but I’m interested in documentation. Is there a toolbox reference on the E.T.O CD-ROMs or something? What does one use for this?

@cheesestraws maybe knows things?

*in fact I am specifically looking for the most up-to-date materials on the File Manager for MacOS 9 — but interested in the more general answer too
There was a HyperCard version of inside Macintosh wasn't there? Did they keep updating that?
 

Phipli

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1995 is the newest I can see on Mac garden after a quick look, not going to be covering Mac OS 9.
 

Crutch

Well-known member
I love that I just went to that link on my iPad and it tried to play the Mac OS SDK CD like it was audio …

Anyway thanks @David Cook , will check that out. (Not by listening to the binary data though)
 

Phipli

Well-known member
I love that I just went to that link on my iPad and it tried to play the Mac OS SDK CD like it was audio …

Anyway thanks @David Cook , will check that out. (Not by listening to the binary data though)
The smooth tones of Classic Mac OS FM, brought to you from the cool binary towns of Eject or Format?
 
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