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I really wish I'd had this tool six months ago when I was designing a GUI program for macOS 9. I wanted to import pictures from my modern laptop to a PowerBook Duo and vice versa. Converting all the assets was a pain, and I think this tool would've been incredibly convenient, even just for previewing the images.

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The program existed six months ago. That said, currently it only allows to render old QuickDraw pictures on a modern Mac OS X. A tool going the other direction would be simple for bitmaps (just use PNG) or very complicated for vector data.

One thing I'm thinking about making a tool that uses old codecs to make compact images for 68K machines. Basically, use today's CPU power to make efficient road-pizza images.

Offtopic but which tools and resources would you recommend to get started with MacOS 9 GUI development?

I’ve experience with WinAPI/MFC but the classic Macintosh API is quite different and I’d often run into hangs when trying to run simple hello world-ish C++ programs compiled with CodeWarrior.

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