On a whim, I pulled out my first Mac (SE/30) – which, after a few restarts, amazingly booted up – to discover the first program I’d ever created: a gaming app, written in 1993 using HyperTalk in conjunction with the CompileIt! app.
It actually ran again nicely on the SE/30, and if I could recreate it in LiveCode it would be a great gift to share with my remaining family (for whom the dice game that it emulates is still their favorite).
Of course, I’d need to find a floppy disk onto which I can copy the original existing supporting files, and an old USB disk reader to do the transfer. I have no recollection as to what the code might look like, but I probably do still have the original CompileIt! manual somewhere.
Has anyone had any experience trying to port such an ancient project? I could start from scratch in LC, but back in 1973 I probably was a lot more clever in inventing the algorithms needed to make it work.
Thanks.
jeff k
It actually ran again nicely on the SE/30, and if I could recreate it in LiveCode it would be a great gift to share with my remaining family (for whom the dice game that it emulates is still their favorite).
Of course, I’d need to find a floppy disk onto which I can copy the original existing supporting files, and an old USB disk reader to do the transfer. I have no recollection as to what the code might look like, but I probably do still have the original CompileIt! manual somewhere.
Has anyone had any experience trying to port such an ancient project? I could start from scratch in LC, but back in 1973 I probably was a lot more clever in inventing the algorithms needed to make it work.
Thanks.
jeff k
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