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Spirit. The Lisa was a MUCH more powerful computer than the first Mac - which is why you needed a Lisa in the first place. The Mac wasn't able to run much of an

Spirit. The Lisa was a MUCH more powerful computer than the first Mac - which is why you needed a Lisa in the first place. The Mac wasn't able to run much of anything developed for the Lisa. Mac software was written in machine language, as I recall the Lisa made more use of higher level languages, so even the tool chain would be problematic. Check folklore.org for more stories of that time.

Crinus 7y ago
Specifically, Apple Pascal: http://pascal-central.com/images/pascalposter.jpg http://pascal-central.com/images/pascalposter.jpg (i want to recreate this in SVG and print a real poster out of it at some point). Although AFAIK the original Mac was also programmable with Pascal (in folklore it mentions that the calculator, etc were initially written in Pascal as examples for the API).
- Shivetya 7y ago
  the reason I went into Pascal was when I was younger I found out my favorite Apple II game; Wizardry; had been written in it. I think they used USCD Pascal. awhile back I was able to find recreated source of the game [1] ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/rpg/wizardry/wizardry_I/ Spreadsheet of game maps, etc. [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mo1EoWXSnR5gNn5kAt9ftGV4DlVpK8gr_QOx0kKzeV4/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mo1EoWXSnR5gNn5kAt9f... Wizardry III re engineered [3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.sys.apple2/wizardry/comp.sys.apple2/2oDJTbQaJWU/Vge7HkIcYYwJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.sys.apple2/w...