Oh, how I long for the excitement I would feel modifying Renegade boards as a young teenager.
Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
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Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#12There some irony that jcs blog post is making the front page of HN, given that he claims to have been permanently banned from HN (pg says otherwise) and created lobste.rs about 10 years ago as an alternative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452568
what the hell do you have to do to get permanently banned from HN? the person was banned or outbound links to their webserver?
Before dang took over being banned was much more common, and not always for an obvious reason.
Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#13Congratulations on a truly neat project! I'm particularly impressed by the revision control system. Since acquiring a Mac Plus and an SE/30 I've wanted to try a bit of programming, but have not really known where to start. It sure looks like Think C + Amend might be a good place to begin! Edit: have we hugged it to death? I can initiate a connection but never get a login prompt.
Strongly recommend checking out Retro68 and cross compiling from a newer machine: https://github.com/autc04/Retro68
There are some really good Retro68 code examples out there as well. I started compiling a list here, including a couple of my own: https://henlin.net/2021/12/21/Cool-Retro68-projects/
As a few other folks have said, the inside Macintosh books are extremely valuable references for Mac-specific code. I keep pdfs of them open the whole time I’m working on my Macintosh projects.
Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#14Congratulations on a truly neat project! I'm particularly impressed by the revision control system. Since acquiring a Mac Plus and an SE/30 I've wanted to try a bit of programming, but have not really known where to start. It sure looks like Think C + Amend might be a good place to begin! Edit: have we hugged it to death? I can initiate a connection but never get a login prompt.
You'll want inside macintosh 1-5 and a decent starter book. If you want system 7 then you need the newer inside macintosh volumes or volume 6 at least. Think Pascal was the easiest way for me to get started. It fits well on the screen. I use resedit to do resources and then you just link the resedit file in the project preferences. The book Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer is pretty good for learning how to start.…
Do you have any links for these old Mac development resources? Inside Mac? HIG? MPW? MacApp?
Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll want inside macintosh 1-5 and a decent starter book. If you want system 7 then you need the newer inside macintosh volumes or volume 6 at least. Think Pascal was the easiest way for me to get started. It fits well on the screen. I use resedit to do resources and then you just link the resedit file in the project preferences. The book Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer is pretty good for learning how to start.…
Do you have any links for these old Mac development resources? Inside Mac? HIG? MPW? MacApp?
The VintageApple website has tons of pdf scans of old Apple-related books. Check this page out: https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/
Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#16Logging into a BBS as a kid was so cool. It felt illegal to get a phone number, dial it up, poke around, download whatever games they had, sometimes they had MUDs too. Then you'd look for new numbers to other BBSs.
Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#17i miss BBS days--i kinda want to make this happen on a decentralized network (something Ethereum-based)
Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#18i miss BBS days--i kinda want to make this happen on a decentralized network (something Ethereum-based)
i briefly ran a Telnet BBS in high school just so that my friends and i could play Legend of the Red Dragon together
Re: Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll want inside macintosh 1-5 and a decent starter book. If you want system 7 then you need the newer inside macintosh volumes or volume 6 at least. Think Pascal was the easiest way for me to get started. It fits well on the screen. I use resedit to do resources and then you just link the resedit file in the project preferences. The book Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer is pretty good for learning how to start.…
Do you have any links for these old Mac development resources? Inside Mac? HIG? MPW? MacApp?
I have paper copies... I'm that old.
The ETO and CodeWarrior CDs had Inside Macintosh in electronic format.
A lot of stuff is available on the Macintosh Garden.