Awesome awesome awesome awesome, love reading about these retro hacking adventures. Huge props to the author!
Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
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Re: Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
#12I love these kind of anachronistic efforts, like the one in the article or the one getting Rust to run on Win98[1] from around the same time. [1]: https://seri.tools/blog/compiling-rust-for-legacy-windows/
Slack on Windows 3.11 https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack
C# on Windows 3.11 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/net-everywhere-apparently-als...
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#13CodeWarrior was such a cool name. I wish Apple kept it over Xcode :)
CodeWarrior wasn't an Apple product; it was a third-party IDE made by a company called Metrowerks.
Re: Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
#14Mac OS 9 was really aging even at that point in time, was crashing all the time from what I heard, and so on, but. It looks amazing.
Monterey wishes it looked half as good as OS 9 looks like
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#15I'm trying to restore mac OS 9.2 on my still working iBook G4. I am ordering old CDs to see if I can restart the system. It has an Mac OS X Tiger installation that is blocking.
Re: Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
#16Mac OS 9 was really aging even at that point in time, was crashing all the time from what I heard, and so on, but. It looks amazing. Monterey wishes it looked half as good as OS 9 looks like
OS9 was very stable, but some apps weren't e.g. photoshop would crash a lot, and as there was no protected memory space for processes every app crash balked the entire system. Happy days.
Re: Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
#17I love these kind of anachronistic efforts, like the one in the article or the one getting Rust to run on Win98[1] from around the same time. [1]: https://seri.tools/blog/compiling-rust-for-legacy-windows/
Slack on Windows 3.11 https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack C# on Windows 3.11 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/net-everywhere-apparently-als...
With Win 3.1, some IRC client and Bitlbee you can chat everywhere :).
Also, a gopher client makes the Win 3.1 desk not-so-obsolete.
Ok, let's back to languages. I think some versions of Lazarus/Free Pascal still target Win 3.11 or Windows 9x at least.
Re: Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
#18Mac OS 9 was really aging even at that point in time, was crashing all the time from what I heard, and so on, but. It looks amazing. Monterey wishes it looked half as good as OS 9 looks like
OS9 was very stable, but some apps weren't e.g. photoshop would crash a lot, and as there was no protected memory space for processes every app crash balked the entire system. Happy days.
OS9 was as stable as W98SE. Not as bad as W98/W95, but still crashy.
Re: Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
#19Mac OS 9 was really aging even at that point in time, was crashing all the time from what I heard, and so on, but. It looks amazing. Monterey wishes it looked half as good as OS 9 looks like
OS9 was very stable, but some apps weren't e.g. photoshop would crash a lot, and as there was no protected memory space for processes every app crash balked the entire system. Happy days.
If an app can crash your system, that means the system is not stable in my books
Re: Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
OS9 was very stable, but some apps weren't e.g. photoshop would crash a lot, and as there was no protected memory space for processes every app crash balked the entire system. Happy days.
If an app can crash your system, that means the system is not stable in my books
Oh it wasn't robust by todays standards (or any standards really), but it would be wrong to infer from that that the quality of OS9 was inferior to OS8, OS7, rotting, etc.