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Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (mpw) compatibility layer
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On the way to a simulator? Will MPW run UI based apps eventually? #27

Open MatthiasWM opened 9 years ago

MatthiasWM commented 9 years ago

mpw run so very well by now. Could it also run regular Macintosh 68k apps?

Is that something you would be interested in?

It is my understanding that the binary formats are the same, including the rsrc for format. Certainly the UI elements and drawing commands are missing, but I imagine that those could be mapped to Qt or another GUI library.

What else would need to be implemented?

ksherlock commented 9 years ago

That's an interesting idea and it would fun challenge. You would need Windows, Menus, Controls, Events and Quickdraw just for a simple Hello World GUI app.

It might be easier to use executor as a starting point.

pgodwin commented 9 years ago

Graybox is similar: https://launchpad.net/graybox/ and http://www.dejamac.com/software/macdraw/

nrezmerski commented 10 months ago

That's an interesting idea and it would fun challenge. You would need Windows, Menus, Controls, Events and Quickdraw just for a simple Hello World GUI app.

It might be easier to use executor as a starting point.

Also https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/