Macpaint and quickdraw source code posted — #2

Post #2 by Bunsen

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Development
Post Date	Tue, 20 Jul 2010 - 15:48
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code-posted.20973/

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Wow. Just ... wow.

This is big news, in two senses: firstly, considering how anal Apple have always been about sourcecode, the fact that they have released anything is great news, and hopefully the start of something.

Second, having access to the original source for Quickdraw surely opens up some interesting possibilities.

QuickDraw is the Macintosh library for creating bit-mapped graphics / It consists of a total of 17,101 lines in 36 files, all written in assembler language for the 68000./

Bill was as concerned with whether human readers would understand the code as he was with what the computer would do with it. / "I'm a firm believer that the best way to prevent bugs is to make it so that you can read through the code and understand exactly what it's doing… "