Banging on about Mac Classic

[Richmond]

On 11/08/2012 10:01 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:
> Richmond,
>
> I believe 2.6.1 was the last version with mac classic build abilities. in 2.8 it was "build for mac os classic will be available soon" but never came i think. that was the final version for a long time that i had to keep building in when i had to support classic (then move stack to more recent version for osx build.)

As far as I know 3.5 could produce Classic builds. That, however is not 
what I was after;

what I was looking for was a Mac Classic version of RunRev, and, since I 
posted my message,
somebody sent me, off-list, an unlicensed version of 2.6.1, and I had a 
'mad' idea, and jacked up my SCSI
ZIP drive to a SCSI card in a PCI slot in a Linux box I have, and 
retrieved a Classic build of RunRev 2.0.

The main "problem" about transferring HC stuff to RR/LC is the bother of 
having to run 2 machines next door to each other; one
being a PPC Mac running OS 8-9, and the other pretty well anything else 
running a non-Classic version of RR/LC. By using a Classic
version of RR/LC one can get round this problem, and transfer stacks 
fairly directly.

2.0 was a build that allowed unlicensed users to build stacks and 
standalones as long as each object contained no more
than 10 lines of code (I designed a prototype agent-led GUI for software 
development with an unlicensed version:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RRRThesis/files/

as a Master's degree thesis at a University), and as such works 
reasonably well for transferring HC stacks.

To a lesser extent one can do this with Metacard 2.5 which is readily 
available:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/files/

of course the difference between the RunRev UI and the Metacard UI is 
why RR/LC is still alive and kicking, while Metacard
is, now, a UI one can strap onto the RR/LC engine if one likes the 
experience of flying by the seat of one's pants.

>
> i cant find an unlicensed zip of the 2.6.1 unfortunately..
>
> jeff
>
> ps i still fire up my old sinclair z80 once and a while for a giggle. micro tape recorder is not doing so well though and tapes i expect to disintegrate with each load! hard to find any rf display input though anymore--another dodo bird! i lost the manual for the z80 and getting harder and harder to remember how to make it all work!  basis 108 still lurks in the basement but no monitor for it... jr
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2012, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
>> So  . . . being aware that various releases of RunRev 3.5.0 are stlll
>> available for download on RunRev's servers, I wonder
>> if anyone knows if there was a Mac Classic build of RR 3.5 and, if so,
>> the URL to download it?
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