Projects

Here are some of my Macintosh projects:

• Trouble in Paradise - A port of GRC’s “TIP: Zip & Jaz Drive and Cartridge Testing System” for 68k and PowerPC Macintosh systems.
• ScreenChooser - A dynamic background changer for vintage Macintoshes.
• Retroweb Vintage Computer Museum - A web-based museum of vintage computers, including the Macintosh.

Resources

Interesting development resources I have found on the web:

• Vintage Macintosh Programming Pages
  • Mac 512k Blog A very comprehensive and well written blog on the the Macintosh 512k, including posts on a variety of information and in-depth articles on assembly language programming.
  • Joshua Stein’s blog, which includes a fantastic series of videos on System 6 software development.
  • MacFlim an amazing video player for classic Macs!
  • Marchintosh, a whole month of Macintosh retrocomputing projects!
• Reference Materials
  • Macintosh Almanac
  • Macintosh Plus Hardware Info
  • Vintage Computing Wiki]
• General Programming Tricks
  • Bit Twiddling Hacks
• Assembly Language Programming
  • Assembly Language Tricks and Traps Information of writing assembly code for the 68000
  • Efficient 68000 Programming
  • Motorola 68030 microprocessor family
  • Dissassembled Mac Plus ROM
  • 68020 Cache Control
  • Retronik 68000 Resources
• Apple Technical Notes Archives_
  • Apple Technical Notes Archive
  • Technical Notes Stack 4.0.5
  • Recommend Developer Publications
  • Selected Topics
    • Cursor Control, Disabling Interrupts, Interrupt Safe Routines, Writing a SCSI Driver, Interrupts in need of (a Good) Time, The Monster Disk Driver Tech Note
• Apple Developer Resources Mirror Tons of resources formerly available via the Apple FTP site
• Mirror of UMICH resources: An archive of many Macintosh things, including development sources
  • web.archive.org
    • For links which are not available, please consider clicking the “Save this url in the Wayback Machine”
  • ftp.icm.edu.pl
  • gopher.floodgap.com
• Develop Magazine: Contents of the Develop magazine
  • vintageapple.org
  • preserve.mactech.com
  • CD-ROM
• Websites with Classic Mac Programs Source Code:
  • ChromiVNC An Open-Transport based VNC server for Macs. Includes source code, illustrating things like patching traps and posting keyboard and mouse events.
  • Thomas Tempelmann’s Macintosh developer site.
  • CDEV Framework for Code Warrior A few CDEV projects with very good documentation
• VNC Programs for Mac
  • ChromiVNC ChromiVNC Wayback Machine 2
• Guided Tour Information
  • [Guided Tour]
• My Own Macintosh Programs (with source code)
  • Trouble in Paradise A Windows port of Steve Gibson’s fantastic tool for checking Iomega Zip and Jaz Cartridges
  • ScreenChooser https://archive.org/details/screen-chooser
• Emulation Websites
  • Retroweb Vintage Computer Museum My own JavaScript museum of vintage computers
  • PCE Emulator A lesser known, but well-written open source Macintosh Plus emulator

  • *Type/Creator Database

  • macobserver.com
  • tcdb.tripod.com
• Miscelaneous Things
  • Dithering: Atkinson Dithering, DitherPunk, ObraDin, Halftone
  • 8088 Domination: Part 1, Part 2

Guided Tour