I second the RAM upgrade.
I used and loved CodeWarrior back when I did Mac OS (Toolbox/Carbon) development, but it's also long been discontinued. I heard good things about THINK C as well. If you can get your hands on either of those, you'll be happier than using MPW. But, hey, MPW is free and readily available.
Do you have a second, more powerful Mac you could install your dev tools on? I'd highly suggest it to (1) help get around the memory limits and (2) so you can fix bugs while your target/test machine (the Classic II) reboots after a crash. I don't remember the options for remote debuggers under Mac OS 7-9 anymore, but if you really get into a tough bug you can obviously still step through the code with a debugger on your dev machine.
I used and loved CodeWarrior back when I did Mac OS (Toolbox/Carbon) development, but it's also long been discontinued. I heard good things about THINK C as well. If you can get your hands on either of those, you'll be happier than using MPW. But, hey, MPW is free and readily available.
Do you have a second, more powerful Mac you could install your dev tools on? I'd highly suggest it to (1) help get around the memory limits and (2) so you can fix bugs while your target/test machine (the Classic II) reboots after a crash. I don't remember the options for remote debuggers under Mac OS 7-9 anymore, but if you really get into a tough bug you can obviously still step through the code with a debugger on your dev machine.