I didn’t even use the “screamer” fork, just current qemu master branch, and things just worked the first time. So I did a quick Google search, and was surprised to discover that qemu (which is presently one of my primary lines of work) is capable of running some variants of MacOS Classic. Which brought me to the first part of this journey. Support for Classic MacOS binaries was dropped in macOS (née MacOS X) eons ago. I was willing to share that old stuff, but I thought that it was polite to test what I was sharing. I’m that old? Also interesting because back then, I was already using the Alsys Ada commenting style even for… documentation!
#Mac os 9.2.2 emulator software#
If you are curious, you can download the binaries or read the “documentation” in French or in English, which is mostly interesting to me because it asserts that this software was released on February 22, 1993. Well, I also had a copy under CVS (enough said, again) on a web site that disappeared since then… I still have the binaries and source code for the games I produced with it, though, but they were built for Classic MacOS.
I had a backup on a Jaz drive, enough said. The problem is that this is one of the cases where I lost the source code. This apparently rekindled some interest in these old HP calculators, and someone asked him about HPDS (HP Development System), an assembler for the HP-48 that I had written way back then. The 1990s are calling, they want their development tools back The books are about the HP Saturn-based calculators, like the HP-48. A friend of mine, Paul Courbis, has recently re-published old books of his on Amazon.