Biblioteka książek o programowaniu na Macintosh – podróż do lat 80!

Z okazji 40-lecia Macintosha udostępniono w sieci wyjątkową kolekcję ponad 150 książek o programowaniu na komputery Macintosh. Za darmo.

Zbiory obejmują publikacje od 1983 roku, m.in. Inside Macintosh X Ref, How to Write Macintosh Software czy Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines z 1992 roku.

Wśród perełek znajduje się także Artificial Intelligence Programming on the Macintosh z 1986 roku. To skarbnica wiedzy dla fanów retro, programistów oraz pasjonatów historii Apple i komputerów osobistych.

Kolekcję można przeglądać online na VintageApple.org, a każdy egzemplarz został zeskanowany i udostępniony społeczności.

#40LecieMacintosha #Apple #bibliotekaMacintosh #historiaKomputerów #InsideMacintosh #książkiOProgramowaniu #Macintosh #programowanieMac #programowanieSztucznejInteligencji #retroApple #vintageComputing

Reactions from the assistance during Bill Atkinson's presentation of MacPaint are a strong reminder of the technical prowesses he did in his code to sublimate the hardware capabilities available at the time.

https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared
#RIP #Apple #BillAtkinson #QuickDraw #InsideMacintosh

Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

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Anyone want some old Insider Macintosh books? Probably moving soon and don’t really want to hold onto these. SF Bay Area preferred.

#InsideMacintosh #MacProgramming #SanJose #ProgrammingBooks

It is interesting that the (classic) Macintosh Memory Manager, while a compacting heap, will not move relocatable blocks past non-relocatable blacks, except under certain special circumstances.

I'm curious why this is. There's a lot of detail in Inside Macintosh about trying to avoid fragmentation, but not much (at least that I've found so far) on the decisions behind these implementation details.

#RetroComputing #Mac68K #InsideMacintosh

The original Inside Macintosh books are really nice technical references for the 68K Mac Toolbox, etc. Luckily there are scanned versions available online, but sadly these lack tables of contents which makes them rough to navigate.

The pdfoutline tool can combine a PDF with a TOC to produce a new PDF, so I'm working my way through writing one up so I can have more convenient versions of these to flip through.

#RetroComputing #Mac68K #InsideMacintosh #PDF

Yesterday I learned that Inside Macintosh's sample code has a bug: It uses the passed-in dirty rect when drawing list items, when it should be using the full cell rect and clip to the rect the LDEF is given. #macOS #insideMacintosh #retroProgramming #listManager #classic #LDEF