Hi folks,
If it was developed on the Lisa, would they have used
LisaPascal? There's a
Lisa emulator out there -- I might play with it this weekend and see if it
works.
www.folklore.org has lots of juicy stories about early Mac development.
In 1981 they were using Lisas for development (obviously).
MacPaint development details:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacPaint_E…
The following article explains that "Macintosh development in the early
days (circa 1983-1985) was done using the Apple Lisa computer and its Lisa
Workshop development environment."
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=3rd_Party_…
I remember using (the interpreted) MacPascal in 1986. There weren't any
Mac-hosted Pascal compiler environments that could fit into <=512Kb
(128K Macs could support 256KBit DRAMs).
I'm really wondering how easy it would be to convert MacPaint so that it
can be compiled in, say, MPW Pascal / 68K.
-cheers from julz @p