I need some assistance from the community.

[dmac1267]

I have a personal project I am working on involving translating a program from Basic to Pascal. I have the Lisa Emulator up and running and I have the modern IDE to do the bulk of the coding in Pascal.

Where things are going sideways is that I am having trouble finding a image of the Lisa Workshop. All the ones I have been able to find appear in a format not compatible, either they say .dc42 yet the Lisa Emulator can't read it or there is no indicator of what format the files are in.

So I figured the best way is to turn to others who are smarter than me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ried]

Which version of the Workshop are you looking for? Workshop 1.0 doesn't create LOS applications, at least easily, as far as I know. Workshop 2.0 might, and Workshop 3.0 provides the most complete toolset to create real LOS applications.

If you need to download a ready-made Workshop 3.0 disk image or set of installation disks, we can certainly help in both cases. The latter is available here:
https://www.bitsavers.org/bits/Apple/Lisa/workshop_3.0/

[jamesdenton]

I have a personal project I am working on involving translating a program from Basic to Pascal. I have the Lisa Emulator up and running and I have the modern IDE to do the bulk of the coding in Pascal.

Where things are going sideways is that I am having trouble finding a image of the Lisa Workshop. All the ones I have been able to find appear in a format not compatible, either they say .dc42 yet the Lisa Emulator can't read it or there is no indicator of what format the files are in.

So I figured the best way is to turn to others who are smarter than me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi - which version of LisaEm are you using? If it's not something built from master or released in, say, the last 12-18 months, there's a good chance you're hitting some bugs that have already been fixed.

[dmac1267]

I am using LisaEm 1.2.7. I also realized where the problem was. It was with me.   I re-read the instructions and  I found out I need to treat it like I did with LOS. Insert the disk and boot from the floppy. I was also able to update to Lisa Workshop 3.9. Amazing what you can do when you READ and FOLLOW direction. 

[stepleton]

A question for the general audience: is Workshop 3.9 desirable? I remember that the floating point libraries introduce breaking changes for some code that compiled with WS 3.0 (hence this warning), and I worried that there may be other differences too.

I developed a hunch that the 3.9 update may have mainly been intended to support improved Macintosh application development, but I don't have any evidence for it.