2 posts tagged ‘Resource Fork’
Building a Classic Mac OS App in Rust
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Wesley Moore: The first challenge was finding a decent specification for the three versions of MacBinary. I was eventually I was able to dig up the following: MacBinary I MacBinary II MacBinary III I then set about building the parser. I reused the binary parser code from Allsorts since I was already familiar with that […]
Rescuing Files From Classic Mac OS...with Swift
Jordan Rose: The biggest benefits of doing this project in Swift are very similar to what the benefits would have been for using C++, back in the 90s, but with even more safety. Take directory walking. In C, this looks something like the following: FSIterator *iter; OSStatus err = FSOpenIterator(&directory, kFSIterateFlat, &iter); if (err != […]