{"id":85965,"date":"2025-04-10T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=fe6ae3c2762bdaf4b919bbb59754061f"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:53:14","slug":"sdl2-ported-to-mac-os-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=85965","title":{"rendered":"SDL2 ported to Mac OS 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/142087\/sdl2-ported-to-mac-os-9\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: The \"porting modern stuff to classic MacOS\" game is fun.  It's a shame no one is really managing with a browser anymore. \nI recently bought and mostly fixed up a Pismo powerbook with the OS9Lives 9.2.2 universal installer; I need to get around to writing that up.  It really was a lovely (if technically brittle) environment with a bunch of fun software.<\/div><p>Well, this you certainly don&rsquo;t see every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a &ldquo;rough draft&rdquo; of SDL2 for MacOS 9, using CodeWarrior Pro 6 and 7. Enough was done to get it building in CW, and the start of a &ldquo;macosclassic&rdquo; video driver was created. It DOES seem to basically work, but much still needs to be done. Event handling is just enough to handling Command-Q, there is no audio, etc etc etc.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/macintoshgarden.org\/apps\/sdl2-macos-9-rough-draft\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8619; A cast of thousands<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The hardest part was a video driver for the classic Mac OS, which had to be created mostly from scratch using the QNX driver as a &ldquo;skeleton&rdquo; because it happened to be the smallest one. It works on both m68k and PowerPC as well as on SheepShaver and Basilisk II, and there&rsquo;s already a few screenshots of it up and running at the link, too. Amazing work, and it opens the door for a whole bunch of especially games to be made available on classic Mac OS.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this you certainly don\u2019t see every day.<\/p>\n<p>This is a \u201crough draft\u201d of SDL2&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=85965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}