Hey there Marten! Just want to start off - unbelievably AWESOME website. I can't thank you enough for supporting the System 6 and maintaining that support. Its helped me a lot and many, many others.
I've been doing a bit of System 6 development myself the past few weeks, and I'd like to tell you a bit of what I used! Quite a while ago (5-6 years) I obtained Symantec THINK C 5.0, and outstanding C compiler with loads of goodies. Coming from a student, it was labelled "academic" so that commericial software was not to be produced. Anyway, I have these disks and since Symantec long dropped THINK C, Lightspeed C and C++ I thought I might put them on the internet for others. I will, of course, attempt to contact the company first and hopefully I can send you the images. THINK C works exclusively under System 6 on any 68000 mac and requires a hard disk w/ about 5 megs of space (if I recall that is the min. amount). It needs only 1MB of RAM, or more for debugging. Also it can be used under System 7. Overall, a great, simplistic developing tool. Along with this I have received (after a bit of newsgroup questioning) Macsbug v. 6.2.2 which allows you to do assembly level debugging under a 68000 mac using system 6 (or any other 68k macs for that matter). Its a great help when programming or just looking into other programs (fooling around :) ). Definitely needed for system 6 programming. Super ResEdit is working on my classic which is ResEdit bundled with plenty of bonuses (including a disassembler). Yet another great tool. Finally, to top it off I found a GREAT tutorial on how to program in assembly (machine-code) in the 68k series (68000 and up). It's titled, "Beginner's Mac Assembly". This book allows a novice to learn how to read, and write in machine-level code! Its an application that you open which turns into a book. You can read it on a color mac only I believe (works on my PM 6100). This tutorial is what I used to learn assembly which greatly compliments the Mac 68000 assembly program on the dev. section of your website. Also, THINK C allows you to integrate it into your programs (along with the C code). Well, I think I've gabbed enough. With the possible exception of Symantec's THINK C 5.0, all this software is free. If you'd like to place this on your website, just tell me :) Thanks a lot and keep up the great website! ... James Beaton-Johnson P. S. Oh yeah, if you go to Motorola's site (the designer of the 68000 CPU) they will send you a free assembly programming reference for the 68k series! Useful if you program a lot ;) -- System6 is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> System 6 Heaven <http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html> System6 info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/system6.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/system6%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
