OpenEuphoria

RE: non-x86 development

• Posted by sephiroth _ <euman2376 at yahoo.com> Jul 24, 2001
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martin.stachon at worldonline.cz wrote:
> It is a long a time since I have been 'hacking' programs with ResEdit, 
> but
> under Mac there is no code in data fork. Most programs have data fork 
> empty.
> (The resource fork is a great thing. All program data is contained in
> program, sorted by type, and easy editable)
> I suppose there is small 68k code which decides if run 68k or PPC 
> version
> CODE.

i've tested this myself. i built a program with no 68k code and it had 
no code resource. all PPC code is stored in the data fork. 68k Mac OSes 
just ignore the data fork when loading a program. that's why you get 
error -92(resource not found) when running a PowerPC-only binary on an 
older Mac OS

> It s possible to upgrade some 68k machines to PPC.

i'd get one of those fancy upgrade cards, but they're so damned 
expensive($249)!