Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]try www.freegeek.org or heck I have perhaps 30 older Mac NBs if someone really wants to run OZ 7.x stuff would be happy to trade for good scotch local to you red wine or whatever > The main problem with smaller utilities and applications on the mac is that > the developers > take shortcuts with the programming process. As I understand it, Mac apps are > supposed to > make > calls to the OS toolbox only, not directly to the hardware. However, this > complicates the > programming process, and since most of the DAs, INITs and cDevs are > free/shareware, > skipping these > steps save a lot of time and headaches. But they also become much more > constrained as > which level of Mac/OS they will work on. > > That being said, I think there will be a limit to backwards compatibility, > even for the > mac's more "closed loop" environment. But on of my favorite mac apps is > MacDraw II. It has > very nifty CAD > features that make designing carpentry projects a snap. I wish I had a > similar app for my > PC (being OS bilingual and all). > >>> My Macs will even run programs developed for the 68000 chip. My >>> most used statistics program is Statview 512, dating back to1986. My >>> favorite >>> word processing program is WriteNow, optimized for Macs when they still >>> looked like beige 9" TV sets. >> --------------------- >> Then how comes it that my Mac G3 Blue running System 9.0 won't have anything >> to do with my favorite System 7.0 application: MultiClip? MultiClip was a >> great expansion of the Clipboard. The outfit that created it seemed to have >> disappeared and not produced upgrades for System 9 or X. >> >> br >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html