Programming 68k code in Tiger???

[GondolinOnMyMind]

All,

I got in my hands something I've for long needed - A genuine Macintosh programming book. This is Macintosh Programming Primer from 1989. So, I thought I would setup an environment in the Powerbook G4 I have. This would be convenient as I can then carry it around. I got the Classic environment installed in Tiger, but Think C gives me trouble. I have tried versions 3 and 5 and while they load the environment, and I can even create a project in V3 (but nothing at V5), the application is somewhat dead. None of the menus work at all. No response what so ever. I need top kill the Classic to stop the programs. Version 6 behaves a bit differently. The installer program fires up, says it needs to close all other programs and does so, creates a couple of directories but that's about it. Also a file "Compressed essential Dev. Set 1" is copied onto that directory, but it is not extracted, and after a while the installer just dies and Classic gives a dialog saying error in Finder. There is no visible dialogs at all.
I thought I could just decompress the Essentials file, but none of my programs (stuffit, unarchiver) recognise it.

Why Think C and not something different? I like to read a proper book while doing this sort of thing and this book is written around Think C.

Any advice or pointer into right direction is appreciated.

 

[adespoton]

If you really want to use Think C, I'd recommend booting directly into Mac OS 9 instead of using Classic; under Classic, you'll have debugger issues, sample build scripts might not work, and anything with timing issues will have problems. You'll want to ensure you're using Think C 5 or 6; 6 will work better on Classic.

 

[GondolinOnMyMind]

If you really want to use Think C, I'd recommend booting directly into Mac OS 9 instead of using Classic; under Classic, you'll have debugger issues, sample build scripts might not work, and anything with timing issues will have problems. You'll want to ensure you're using Think C 5 or 6; 6 will work better on Classic.

I was afraid of something like that. The issue with this powerbook is that to my knowledge this powerbook doesn't support booting to System 9 or older, just OS X.

 

[Phipli]

I was afraid of something like that. The issue with this powerbook is that to my knowledge this powerbook doesn't support booting to System 9 or older, just OS X.

There are special versions of OS9 for pretty much all G4s, I can't remember if they solved the issues on FW800 machines, but if your PowerBook doesn't have FW800, it can absolutely boot OS9.