Porting Mac Applications

February 1997 / Reviews / On TV: The Set-Top Morphing PowerPC / Porting Mac Applications

If you're a Mac programmer with a CD-Recordable (CD-R) device, you can port a Mac application to an @World CD-ROM in about 15 minutes. But you'll probably want to modify it first to use more than the controller's trackball and "mouse" buttons.
An @World CD-ROM carries a version of System 7.5.2. A stripped-down Pippin program replaces Finder, but you can add extensions to the CD-ROM. The system reboots each time you insert a new CD.
You'll also need a license and a dongle. The @World unit authenticates each disk it runs, looking for a digital signature that only the dongle can produce. Bandai is planning to make the licensing costs encouragingl y low.

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Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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