4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
4:08 p.m.
At 12:36 PM 3/4/2005, Steve Jones wrote:
But I imagine anybody who ever looked at developing
software for
the Mac very quickly discovered this when they learned that - uhm,
was it ADPA? The earlyish development environment for the Mac -
included a shell, and you could see the filesystem more directly.
The APDA CDs did have a shell like that, I once used it to port
my 3D conversion software. I had to find a way to make 'makefiles'
that would compile the code on several platforms: Amiga, 32-bit DOS,
Windows, SGI and Linux. And I did. It was also tricky to write
a filepath parser that could handle paths of any type and be able
to re-write them with the destination path's type, on a platform
that used neither type. So my software could read an SGI model
on an Amiga and write out PC-style filename paths, for example.
But I think I first saw the colon separators in Mac Pascal code for
DECnet. I once helped port Thursby's TSSnet from Mac to Amiga.
- John