denodster Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 (edited) Hey everyone, I've been on a search for a few days now for a particular developer tool that was once available for download from ftp.apple.com It's called ToolFrontEnd, It was a plugin that allowed developers to run MPW commands from codewarrior as part of their automated build scripts. Why do I need it? I'm trying to build the first release of Mozilla when it was first made open source in 1998. I've found an archive of the website for ToolFrontEnd on archive.org here: http://web.archive.org/web/19990909113056/http://developer.apple.com:80/dev/techsupport/develop/issue25/mpw.html And heres the dead link for where it was on the apple ftp server: ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Periodicals/develop/develop25/develop_Issue_25_code/ToolFrontEnd.sit.hqx Apple used to publish a quarterly periodical called 'Develop', Each issue came with a cd called the bookmark CD, which as I understand it contained all of the information from every previous issue's cd (cause 650mb was an impossibly large amount of space in 1996) Does anyone have any issues of Develop lying around? I'm looking for a file called ToolFrontEnd that would have been on issue 25 and possibly newer issue's bookmark cds. I found the cd for issue 27 on ebay, and that might be my best bet, but I thought I would try here first to see if any of you all could save me the trouble. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Develop-Bookmark-CD-Issue-27-September-1996-by-Apple-Computer-/222064026135?hash=item33b40c2217:g:LDUAAOSwAuNW5gdZ Edited July 12, 2017 by denodster Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mrpippy Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 MacTech still has the develop archives online, unfortunately their FTP site (which they link to for the source code) is down: http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/index.html I have images of a bunch of Developer CDs, I can take a look around that time period and see if any of them have it on there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
68kMLA Supporter Scott Squires Posted July 12, 2017 68kMLA Supporter Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 I have the source archive from MacTech, but it's only the source code. Perhaps you can figure out how to compile it. https://www.hobbesnet.org/tmp/develop_25.sit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denodster Posted July 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2017 dude thanks, thats exactly what I needed (believe it or not the built version was there too) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
68kMLA Supporter Scott Squires Posted July 13, 2017 68kMLA Supporter Report Share Posted July 13, 2017 Oh, excellent! I didn't notice an executable when I looked. Glad to help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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