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- From: sethi@pokey.cis.udel.edu (Adarshpal S Sethi)
- Subject: Re: Developing programs for low-end Macs
- In-Reply-To: <de19-171192063756@mac19-pg2.umd.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.205133.19618@udel.edu>
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- Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:51:33 GMT
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- In article <de19-171192063756@mac19-pg2.umd.edu> de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.181736.25732@udel.edu>, sethi@pokey.cis.udel.edu
- >(Adarshpal S Sethi) wrote:
- >>
- >> I am developing a program using Think C that is
- >> required to run under both System 6 and System 7
- >> as well as on low-end Macs including the 128K and
- >> 512K Macs. The only machines available to me are
- >> the Mac SE and the MAC II. My question is: What
- >> care/precautions should I take during the development
- >> to ensure that the program will meet these
- >> requirements? Thanks in advance for all responses,
- >
- >Those are mighty stringent requirements, especially for someone who lacks
- >an historically complete view of Macintosh documentation.
- >
- ...stufff deleted...
- >
- >It might help us to know just why this is a requirement?
- >--
- >
- >Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu>
-
- Many thanks to all who replied to my message both in the
- newsgroup and by personal email. I got many references to
- the Inside Mac books (which I'll go look up as soon as possible)
- but not much else. There were some doubts expressed on whether
- Think C 5.0 or later could at all produce programs that would
- run on the lower-end Macs.
-
- Many people expressed sentiments similar to the above asking to
- know just why this is a requirement. Well, I agreed to develop
- a simple game for our local school. This school has only
- Mac SE's but they would wish to exchange games with other schools
- or even to give it away to other schools, and I was told that
- some of these other schools probably have older Macs, which is
- why the requirement. (I was told that many people like you
- and me donate old equipment to schools, and that's how they
- end up with obsolete stuff that nevertheless gets used; that's
- reality!)
-
- Well, I initially didn't think this was a big deal, given that
- the game is a rather simple one. It has some graphics, and will
- use the Mac-style windows, menus, etc. (but it only needs
- one window) and will probably read
- a few data files, but that's it. I thought I could probably
- be frugal with the use of some features that would allow me
- to have a program that would run on all machines. I am still
- not certain that this is correct. Anyone know for sure? Should
- I give up completely on this, or is there any reasonable way
- I can do it? Note that I do not have access to any such low-end
- machines.
-
- Adarsh
- sethi@udel.edu
-
-