[HN Gopher] Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
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       Writing and running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2022-07-15 14:54 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | tiffanyh wrote:
       | There some irony that jcs blog post is making the front page of
       | HN, given that he claims to have been permanently banned from HN
       | (pg says otherwise) and created lobste.rs about 10 years ago as
       | an alternative.
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452568
        
         | walrus01 wrote:
         | what the hell do you have to do to get permanently banned from
         | HN?
         | 
         | the person was banned or outbound links to their webserver?
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | So cool.
       | 
       | I recapped my original Mac Plus but the floppy drive is toast. I
       | picked up a BlueSCSI kit that I have yet to assemble -- it ought
       | to allow me to boot from a "hard drive" (SD card on the BlueSCSI,
       | I think) and so bypass the floppy drive entirely.
       | 
       | I think I would like to get a THINK C up and running again and
       | write a game using the old Mac Toolbox.
       | 
       | I built a decent Mac look-alike (under emulation, Raspberry Pi +
       | miniVmac) that might actually make for a better environment.
        
       | Agamus wrote:
       | This made my day, and thank you for documenting everything so
       | well.
       | 
       | The visible latency brings back warm, early childhood memories.
        
       | floren wrote:
       | Congratulations on a truly neat project! I'm particularly
       | impressed by the revision control system. Since acquiring a Mac
       | Plus and an SE/30 I've wanted to try a bit of programming, but
       | have not really known where to start. It sure looks like Think C
       | + Amend might be a good place to begin!
       | 
       | Edit: have we hugged it to death? I can initiate a connection but
       | never get a login prompt.
        
         | projektfu wrote:
         | You'll want inside macintosh 1-5 and a decent starter book. If
         | you want system 7 then you need the newer inside macintosh
         | volumes or volume 6 at least.
         | 
         | Think Pascal was the easiest way for me to get started. It fits
         | well on the screen. I use resedit to do resources and then you
         | just link the resedit file in the project preferences. The book
         | Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer is pretty good for learning
         | how to start.
         | 
         | Think Reference is useful too, or ObiWan for an online
         | reference.
         | 
         | If you prefer C, it's a little idiosyncratic on the Mac. Code
         | warrior, older versions, will run, and so will Think C. There
         | was also Symantec C++ for the Mac that I never tried.
         | 
         | If you want the apple tools, they were released on CDs called
         | ETO in the latter years. MPW is ... well it gives you a shell
         | but it's got a learning curve.
         | 
         | You can also cross compile to the Mac with Free Pascal. There's
         | also a Modula-2 system called MacMETH. Microsoft had a version
         | of Visual C++ that had a Mac compiler too. Sometimes the
         | easiest thing is to set up an appletalk share and do your
         | coding on a familiar machine with a large monitor.
        
       | open4glabs wrote:
       | Very cool! I miss bbs days!
        
       | icedchai wrote:
       | Neat. I miss the BBS days. I wrote a BBS for the Amiga, back when
       | I was in high school.
        
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