Books: Inside Macintosh

#1 Thu, 5 Apr 2012 - 05:15 68kMLA

I saw volumes I to VI (Vol. III missing?) of "Inside Macintosh" programming books at auction site for few €'s. Are those any good, i mean, i know some C++ but these are ancient. Anyone has these, possibly worth picking up?

#2 Thu, 5 Apr 2012 - 06:03 68kMLA

Definitely get them if you can. They are a good resource, and are also worth a little bit too.

#3 Thu, 5 Apr 2012 - 07:17 68kMLA

Check them here in PDF

And here is in CD format for Classic Macs

#4 Thu, 5 Apr 2012 - 16:18 68kMLA

Thanks for the links, i was aware of the pdf already and might have the CD as well somewhere. Those books are quite thick, 6 cm. Let's see if nothing else come around i might bid on those.

#5 Thu, 5 Apr 2012 - 18:50 68kMLA

All of the programming examples and Toolbox calls are in Pascal. There is also some coverage of how to access the Toolbox from assembly.

Be aware that the original 3 volumes get quickly out of date when you start programming on anything newer than a 68000 Mac. For example, the only filesystem described is MFS.

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#7 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 - 03:10 68kMLA

How does the Inside Macintosh work? One volume for every chipset? or "set" per model?

It'd be nice to have one that covers the SE/30. How far "up" does the IM volume go to...all the way up to the PPC models pretty much 68K only?

#8 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 - 21:24 68kMLA

68k only.