As a tribute to the recently made public source code version of the original MacPaint i’ll show you how to get this working on Snow Leopard. Firstly download this zip file Drag and drop the 024M.dsk file onto the Mini vMac application file in the folder. Now drag and drop the corresponding files when prompted onto the Mini vMac application window. The installation should finish once it goes through each pacakge. Then select ‘Quit’. Now repeat Step 1 again, by dragging the 024M.dsk file onto the Mini vMac application file in the folder. It should startup the Mac OS 7.0. [...]

I’ve recently upgraded my main Mac for development to Snow Leopard. In doing so, i said i’d upgrade my Xcode also to take advantage of that cool new feature called “Build and Analyze”. After a healthy 2 hour download of Xcode 3.2 I ran with childish excitement to build our latest games and see how they got on. It got past the splash screen, but then it threw a “SIGABRT” error when trying to draw the next scene, which contained strings and some custom font rendering. It turns out that its a known issue with the default C++ compiler in [...]