Where to find Inside Macintosh and Tech Notes

[redrouteone]

I used to have the URL for where Apple keeps the PDFs of Inside macintosh and the tech notes. I can't find my bookmark and my google-fu is failing me. Anyone have it handy?

 

[porter]

Try http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/navigation/index.html

 

[Dog Cow]

I'm going to be putting some old Mac tech notes which had been posted in comp.binaries.mac on my site later this month, but there's probably all of them on Apple's site already. The c.b.m ones are in HQX, IIRC.

 

[Bunsen]

While we're on the subject:

I've got the opportunity to pick up the paper edition of Inside Mac vol. VI - the huge one.

Is it worth it, compared to a PDF? Yes, I do prefer to read actual books.

Does it compile all the previous editions, with corrections, or does it merely contain corrections to the previous editions?

 

[Gorgonops]

Just as a whiney aside, I'd love to find PDFs of "Inside Macintosh" volumes IV and V, IV particularly. My Google-Fu has failed me miserably on those... no, wait, I'd never just Google up a PDF, those volumes are copywrited material and I'd be a bad person if I just read an unauthorized copy of them found on the Internet, etc, etc, etc...

I really hate what Apple's done with the "Legacy" documentation on their site, lumping it all into that "Legacy Mac OS X Reference Library" page with a terrible search engine. Until about a year ago they still had sensible, organized index pages for this material, and links to things like sample code actually worked. Eh. I guess it's all been consigned to the dustbin of history anyway. All it means, I guess, is if you want anything you'd better get it now before it's all completely buried by the Ministry of Truth.

 

[porter]

I've got the opportunity to pick up the paper edition of Inside Mac vol. VI - the huge one.

It contains all the System 7 introductions, eg process Manager, AppleEvents, Publish and Subscribe etc. Networking additions,eg ADSP.

Does it compile all the previous editions, with corrections, or does it merely contain corrections to the previous editions?

No and no, it additional, it's all the new stuff for System 7.

After Vol VI, they then rewrote the whole lot by topic, those were made available both as PDF and HTML. What was then lost was how to write code for pre-system 7 systems.

 

[Bunsen]

Ah.... so it's actually the paper copies before (and including?) Vol VI that are worth picking up, assuming you want to do any development for System 6 or lower? The hardware info is the same in the PDFs?