Re: Jaguar: Sweet16 or Bernie

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> Jim O'Reilly wrote:
> > The latest release of Sweet16 requires Mac OSX 10.3.9.  Bernie ][ the
> > Rescue is no longer supported and not recommended for serious use.  If
> > one has Jaguar (Mac OSX 10.2.8) is there an earlier version of Sweet16
> > or some other Apple II emulator one can run?  Does Bernie run on Jaguar?
> 
> It sounds like it's getting all too easy to write programs for the Mac
> that are OS-version-dependent.  Unless the "latest, greatest" do-dads
> are really necessary for a program, that's a Bad Thing.

It is a side effect of Apple's developer tools (Xcode). Apple makes it
easy to write an application that will work on 10.3.9 or later. They do
still support creating applications for 10.2.8 (or earlier versions of
10.3), as long as the developer installs an extra SDK, jumps through
some more hoops and avoids certain OS features (may require creating a
different executable for earlier Mac OS versions). I haven't had a close
enough look to be certain of the details.

Third-party tools such as CodeWarrior (or old versions of Xcode) can be
used to create applications for older versions of Mac OS X. The big
catch is Intel processor support (universal binary) - it can only be
done on recent versions of Xcode, which ties in the 10.3.9 minimum
without extra work.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz