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Interestingly found that postscript generation was very slow using laserwriter 7 driver but super fast with laserwriter 8 driver

Yeah it does - see example below when I printed to postcript file from macwrite %%Trailer cd end %%Pages: 1 0 %%EOF

I’ll see if postscript has an EOF marker and if not will have to fall back on watching for file size to quit changing

Ok, I have an idea for an easier way to print from minivmac. Using some python code to monitor a folder inside the minivmac image for postscript files and when it detects one it prints it using your host computer and then deletes it This idea came to me all based on the excellent machfs module...

Ok checked in some python scripts at https://github.com/lawson89/classic_disk_utils Used them to sync up my C code from minivmac and everything seems to be formatted nicely https://github.com/lawson89/mac_c_primer Suggestions and merge requests welcome!

I wish someone would come across this many new in box classic macs! https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts

Ok yeah I found this which should allow me to script up what I need to do https://github.com/elliotnunn/machfs I'll post it here when done In my case I'll have a config file that takes mappings from src folder on the minivmac volume and destination folder on my workstation and will export...

Has anyone found a reasonable way to extract their C source code from minivmac so that it's easy to push to github with normal line endings? I found this project (which is Java) https://www.catacombae.org/hfsexplorer/ that allows me to explore and extract files from a mini vmac dsk image I was...

Ok so enjoying the thinkc study group but something occurred to me. The widgets for dialogs is a very paltry set and then you just have to draw everything and respond to low level events on your main window. Naturally I sez to myself, where are the pre-built widgets that you can drop into a...

Also I relearned this the hard way :) Yes, you can assign one instance of a struct to another using a simple assignment statement. In the case of non-pointer or non pointer containing struct members, assignment means copy.

Ok finished up the samples. That was a hoot. Onto the next chapter!

Really enjoyed your blog!

Great explanation - thanks!

Question - so I've done a couple examples - draw HelloWorld and Mondrian. One thing I noticed is there are no imports. Does ThinkC automatically add mac imports for you? I was expecting stuff like import "quickdraw.h" at the top of the samples?

Ok gotcha - I see the other chapter threads - missed that at first. Got minivmac going with thinkc installed and hello world running. Miss syntax colorizing so I need to go install that popfunc add on. I used to do C in vi on an HPUX via VT220 terminal but now I am spoiled :)

Thanks!

Hi are folks still working on this thread? I am getting my dev env setup but wasn't sure if this was where to post when I start coding?