Re: Developing Apple Lisa Office System applications?

I think it would be a lot of fun just writing a simple 'hello world' type of program and running it on lisa.
It would interesting to see the differences in today's programming vs. Lisa in 1982. Yes, I am geek :-)

-Chandra

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:48 AM, <lincoln.roop_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> David,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to write such an informative response and point
> me to these resources. If I am able to produce something, I will
> definitely make a post about it here. I'm glad that the documentation and
> disk images still exist, tracking down resources for older platforms can be
> quite challenging.
>
> On Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:01:10 PM UTC-4, DAVID T CRAIG wrote:
>>
>> Hello Lincoln,
>>
>> Developing Apple Lisa desktop tools requires the APPLE LISA TOOLKIT.
>> Documentation and disk images for this may be found at:
>>
>> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/apple/lisa/toolkit_3.0/
>>
>> The Lisa Workshop development environment is needed for Toolkit
>> development. The toolkit is based on an extended version of the Pascal
>> language called Clascal which added object-oriented programming to the
>> Apple Lisa Pascal language. Clascal is documented in the above
>> Bitsavers.org web site. I used the Toolkit long ago and found it very
>> powerful, but you have to read a lot to understand what you need to know
>> given the object libraries are rather extensive. Apple provides a very good
>> introduction to Clascal.
>>
>> I have attached 2 articles about the Toolkit and Clascal which may be
>> useful. Some other Lisa stuff is also provided that may interest you too.
>>
>> Apple also provided what was called QUICK PORT that allowed you to create
>> programs for the Office System Desktop environment, but Quick Port was not
>> as versatile as the Toolkit. But Quick Port was easier to use if your
>> program's desktop requirements were not extensive. I also believe Quick
>> Port did not provide access to the Toolkit libraries. I recall Quick Port
>> was documented in the Lisa Operating System reference manual set (3
>> volumes).
>>
>> I've also BCCed one of the Lisa Toolkit's authors in case he has anything
>> to add or correct any mistakes here.
>>
>> Hope this helps. If you actually produce a Lisa Toolkit tool please let
>> me and this LisaList know.
>>
>> Regards,
>> David Craig
>>
>> ===
>>
>> On October 23, 2014, at 12:08 PM, lincol..._at_email.domain.hidden wrote:
>>
>> > I'm interested in learning about what it would take to write a Lisa
>> application that would actually be recognized by and run inside the Office
>> System instead of the Programmer's Workshop. I've read some documentation,
>> and see in an old notice to potential third-party developers, Apple
>> mentioned the future existence of an "Application Developer's Toolkit" that
>> would allow this, due to be available in late 1983. Did this product ever
>> actually get released?
>>
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