Compiling a Mac OS 8 application on macOS Sierra

In 1999, armed with a brand new copy of Metrowerks Codewarrior and a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.5.1, I wrote a basic implementation of Minesweeper to test out the Powerplant application development environment. It’s the oldest project of mine that I’ve kept, so I wanted to see if I could get it running again for the first time in 17 years.

There’s no Swift or Objective-C code in this article but there are disk-eating koalas, deliberately misspelled cities, Zernike polynomials, Cocoa software (but not the Cocoa you’re thinking of), resource forks, master pointer blocks and in the end, I finally earn the admiration of my family.

Great, entertaining story, you learn something, and it mentions BeOS. I can’t think of anything that would make this story even more likely to get posted on OSNews.

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