LC-apps for HC
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Nov 30 17:37:44 EST 2018
Ingar Roggen wrote:
> But before that I would like to know if MacPaint works in LC.
> Anybody know that?
I doubt it. IIRC the format was directly dependent on QuickDraw - from
Wikipedia:
Applications using QuickDraw will still run under OS X 10.8
through macOS 10.12; however, the current versions of Xcode
and the macOS SDK do not contain the header files to compile
such programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickDraw
This is one of the benefits I've come to appreciate with open source:
data longevity. When formats and the code needed to operate on them are
free and open, data can never die.
Proprietary formats only live as long as the vendor chooses to support them.
I have a hard drive in my archives filled with data dependent on
software that no longer runs on any modern OS.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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