Hey all,
Just wondering if anybody knows what type of program development application was around for classic macs back in the day and if such a program exists here at macintosh garden. I've had a quick scan through about a third of the apps then gave up.
I intend to open up a few old programs just to see what makes them tick and mess around with them purely for my own selfish needs. No intention to modify programs and then redistribute them.
I3loodTeeth
I am no developer of mac software but Codewarrior was very popular back when the faithful were pining for the return of Steve Jobs. There is also the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop somewhere on the site, as well Macintosh Common Lisp, Macintosh BASIC, Think C, AppleScript Guides, McAssembly, Turbo Pascal, Think Pascal and probably others too. It's been a while since I've looked.
soudesune,
thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out. I also need a program that can tell me what language applications were created with so I don't have to sift through assembly code.
I3loodTeeth
There are a lot of compilers. Very few (I know of no) decompilers. There are some great disassemblers. MacNosy is the best disassembler I've ever seen on any platform. To look at loaded code on 68k macs, I'd suggest TMON. The only way I know to tell what language a program was written in is to sift through its assembly code. MacNosy can sometimes recognize a compiler by the library routines it uses.
