You'll have a very hard time developing on the 512K. Would need to use a very old version of the dev environments and you'd not have the use of a debugger (LightSpeed C 3 and THINK Pascal 2 both need at least System 4.2). The MacPlus will be much better - but I don't know how you got 8mb in there...
(Actually I just checked, and LightSpeed Pascal 1.11 has an integrated debugger and will run on a 512K mac with 64 ROMs.)
I've probably said it before in this thread, and certainly in others, but I'm going to repeat myself. You do not need Inside Macintosh to learn to program a Mac, and indeed it is hard to learn from. You do need it to program a Mac really well, but THINK Reference plus the Mark and Reed books provide an excellent basis for a wide variety of applications.
Ken
As to Inside Macintosh presuming MPW, yes it does. This matters for some things like header file organisation and accessing QuickDraw globals and some methods in the runtime, but it is only a slight nuisance.
(Actually I just checked, and LightSpeed Pascal 1.11 has an integrated debugger and will run on a 512K mac with 64 ROMs.)
I've probably said it before in this thread, and certainly in others, but I'm going to repeat myself. You do not need Inside Macintosh to learn to program a Mac, and indeed it is hard to learn from. You do need it to program a Mac really well, but THINK Reference plus the Mark and Reed books provide an excellent basis for a wide variety of applications.
Ken
As to Inside Macintosh presuming MPW, yes it does. This matters for some things like header file organisation and accessing QuickDraw globals and some methods in the runtime, but it is only a slight nuisance.