Coding for classic Macs is at the same time a painful and incredibly fascinating experience! But hey at least I used MacsBug for something real for the first time. In 2026!
PowerPlant helps a lot although their Appearance classes are a bit of a mess, very buggy on pre-appearance systems and totally not documented. I’m pushing solving a lot of UI bugs for later.
Still a lot of work to do but I hope it will be useful especially on 68k Macs!
And of course all first party code written by a human.
Miguel Arroz
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2026-08-16 18:53:00 UTC
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