Wed, 04 Jul 2007
A few notes about my programming and testing setup.
Most of the code so far has been written on my iMac (Rev. A) running Mac OS 9. I wrote a little bit on my Power Mac G5. Since I can't yet transfer files onto my Plus to test with, I've been testing in Mini vMac. This is great, because through the magic of disk images, I can test with different OSen on the Plus. This is also a boon for the compile/crash/debug cycle -- vMac reboots a lot faster than a physical machine.
I'm primarily testing with System 4.2 (with and without MultiFinder 1.0),
System 6.0.8 (with and without MultiFinder), and System 7.1. I occasionally
boot 7.5 on the vMac Plus, but 7.5 is such a CPU hog, the analog clock just
barely keeps up! (I'm CopyBits-ing the whole screen once a second, and
that takes some time. I'm going to work on optimizing that.)
I very much want the program to be compatible across as wide a range of Macs as possible. My release goal is for it to run unmodified on my Plus running System 4.2, and on my G5 tower running 9.2.2 in Classic mode.
Personally, I'm going to boot it on my 1 MB Plus (running either 4.2 or 6.0.8, doesn't much matter) and let it go. Man, I can see it already. :)
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