====== MacSloMo ======

===== Download =====

  * Last Version, Macintosh Classic PPC: {{:projects:macslomoppc.hqx|MacSloMo, PPC version}}
  * Last Version, Macintosh Classic 68K: {{:projects:macslomo68k.hqx|MacSloMo, 68K version}}
  * Source for version .671, in [[http://stazsoftware.com/futurebasic|FutureBASIC II]] format: {{:projects:macslomo-v671s.zip}}

===== About =====

My first real big project was an [[wp>emulator]] for the [[wp>Apple Macintosh]] written in [[wp>BASIC_programming_language|Basic]]. (Actually, [[http://stazsoftware.com/futurebasic|FutureBASIC]].) It ran the arcade versions of Centipede, Millipede, Warlords, and some other game I can't remember at the moment. At the time this was released, this was pretty heavy stuff.

I let [[:links|Warman]] take over the role of improvements, to which he added [[wp>PowerPC]] [[wp>assembly language]] to it. (Yeah, [[wp>BASIC_programming_language|Basic]] and [[wp>assembly language]], what were we thinking?) As the story goes, we lost track of the version numbering at .68 or .69. Eventually it would break, lock, and crash our Macs, and we eventually gave up on it. Then somehow he lost his password to his college hosted website, so it stays stuck forever in time thre. Oh well, we had fun with it.

//Note: Some might ask why we didn't do this in C or C++. Well, as it happens, C/C++ compilers back in 1997 weren't free nor readily accessible to anyone (especially on the Macintosh platform.) However, FutureBASIC was affordable and the best tool we had at our disposal at the time.//