Advanced Mac Substitute

38 points by lorddimwit

jjuran

After Bill Atkinson passed away, I made a short demo of MacPaint running in Advanced Mac Substitute:

https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/demo/MacPaint-AMS-demo.mp4

And yes, that's me trying to write in cursive with a mouse. :-)

juliethefoxcoon

I just wanna say: Thanks. I've gotten a lot of good value out of your software as an mac enthusiant and I imagine countless others have too :)
- jjuran
  
  You're welcome, and thanks for the kind words. Are there specific programs you'd like to highlight as having been beneficial?
  - juliethefoxcoon
    
    Being able to play bungie's gnop! was really nice :)
- lorddimwit
  
  It’s been seven years, and there weren’t many comments back then. The world has turned.
- Spots
  
  I've long thought about implementing something like this, but as a "translator" – Toolbox calls should be adaptable to modern Cocoa. Imagine, for example, having the menus on your actual Menu Bar. It's cool to see this idea isn't totally mad after all!
  - jjuran
    
    This could be an approach for writing super-portable Mac applications. My own applications span the range from System 6 and earlier to 32-bit macOS. By implementing enough high-level Carbon functions like CreateNewWindow(), you could go even further.