How to develop for Mac OS 9

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How to develop for Mac OS 9

Hi all,
I'm looking for some kind of develop tools in Mac OS 9 like XCode in Mac OS X.
Can anybody introduce me some tools like that? I've googled but get nothing.
Well, actually, I'm not really going to write some programs for OS 9, I'm just a little bit curious.
So if anyone know some, please tell me and it will be great if there is some manuals too.
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Thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6), 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 2.5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Oct 21, 2009 12:04 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 21, 2009 7:04 AM in response to Simple Xu

Here are some buzzwords that you can google:
MPW
Think C
Metrowerks Codewarrior
Resorcerer
ResEdit
AppMaker

All of these products have been discontinued but you may find them as used items.

Writing Mac applications is FAR from easy. I worked for almost 2 years reading, studying and experimenting before I wrote what I consider my first viable commercial-grade application. The Mac (particularly pre-X) is completely unforgiving. Your code has to be 100% perfect or you will quickly garner a "you build junk" reputation - because your application will routinely crash the computer.

Gary

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Simple Xu Author

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Oct 22, 2009 12:05 AM in response to Gary - former developer

Thank you Gary!
I'll try those. I've written some tiny applications in OS X using XCode and Interface Builder and they work well, I hope I'm still lucky in OS 9. Thanks again!

Simple

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Answer 3

Oct 29, 2009 3:56 AM in response to Simple Xu

I would also suggest FutureBASIC for OS 9.
It's free, simple and there's even a Mac OS X PowerPC version, if you decide to make you application usable with Mac OS X.

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