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bluedino 76 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft”

I tried a little bit 20+ years ago. Bought a 'road Apple' Performa for $50, download Pangea's game programming book, can't remember if I used MPW or CodeWarrior...

It wasn't anywhere near as simple as DOS game programming was so I think I just installed YellowDog and used that Mac as a webserver.

https://www.pangeasoft.net/book/buy.html

Edit: I just opened that PDF and I think that's a newer version or I remembered the book wrong.

wsc981 76 days ago [–]

Perhaps the book was "The Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming" [0]? That was a fun book I got myself.

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[0]: https://archive.org/details/blackartofmacint00ties

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