68k Soft Dorothy Software — Early Shareware Projects

[eric]

This looks like a great resource for how some old games were developed!

My desire was to recover the sources to my old Soft Dorothy Software games as well as the old build environment (THINK C, THINK Pascal, ResEdit) and create disk images suitable for the current early Macintosh emulators. With all the pieces in one place, I was hoping to be able to re-compile the Macintosh games (perhaps even fix old bugs?) just as I would have originally done in the late 1980's, early 1990's.

GitHub - EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-SharewareProjects: Disk images (intended for emulators) containing code and tools for building Soft Dorothy Software games. Primarily vintage Pascal and C calling the vintage Macintosh Toolbox.

Disk images (intended for emulators) containing code and tools for building Soft Dorothy Software games. Primarily vintage Pascal and C calling the vintage Macintosh Toolbox. - EngineersNeedArt/Sof...

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[eric]

Oh there's a blog post to go with it - and oh! he uses BlueSCSI! https://engineersneedart.com/blog/shareware/shareware.html

 

[JDW]

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, @eric !

I especially loved the part he wrote at the end...

Some of which he talks about here...

GitHub - EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTales-Vol1: First part of a collection of Soft Dorothy Software scraps and game experiments from the late 80's and early 90's.

First part of a collection of Soft Dorothy Software scraps and game experiments from the late 80's and early 90's. - EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTales-Vol1

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and here...

GitHub - EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTales-Vol2: The second part of a collection of Soft Dorothy Software scraps and game experiments from the early 90's.

The second part of a collection of Soft Dorothy Software scraps and game experiments from the early 90's. - EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTales-Vol2

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[sam256]

This is very cool. You may know this already, but if you are looking for examples of source code of 1 bit games for the mac, John Calhoun (who wrote Glider) released basically all of the code for his original shareware games on Github here (look at both the Cassady and Greene and the Soft Dorthy projects)

EngineersNeedArt - Overview

After a 30-year hiatus, back to writing shareware, ha ha. - EngineersNeedArt

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Also the source code for the 1 bit game Continuum (in C with a lot of assembly for the drawing) has also been released here:

Macintosh Game Continuum 1.04 Download Page