Apple Developer CD Codenames (1999)(mackido.com) |
Apple Developer CD Codenames (1999)(mackido.com) |
I've been digging through these old CDs to find the necessary magical incantations for writing an Ethernet driver for the SE/30 10/100Mbit Ethernet card I'm developing.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi [1] http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2006/04/colour_me_picked
The entire 15-20 pages or so was entirely devoted to joke articles and parodies. I need to find that again and scan it.
I also have an SE/30, luckily I was able to find an Ethernet card for a reasonable price.
It is hardware oriented, but explains how declaration ROMs work. The 3rd edition knows about the SE/30.
I've got some MPW scripts for building the declaration ROM. I'm working on the actual Ethernet driver part just now, and hopefully I'll be able to embed that in the declaration ROM too.
The great thing about classic macOS is that you can talk to hardware from userspace by just reading & writing the appropriate addresses in memory.
Of course, this is also a terrible thing :-)
I distinctly remember browsing through an incredible multimedia CD that came packaged with one of the first consumer CDROM drives that Apple put out. In addition to some cheesy video presentations this CD had a bunch of Bloom County comics and some games to boot. I wish I could find my old copy but I think it's been lost to time at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d38FTdo6_eE
Brilliant!
Article covering the snafu in detail: https://www.engadget.com/2014/02/26/when-carl-sagan-sued-app...