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Welcome to Developer Technical Support!

Apple Computer's Developer Technical Support group is devoted to helping third party commercial developers create great products for Macintosh computers.

Current Offerings:

Starting to program Macintosh computers

When you need to know where to start, this is one engineer's opinion, expressed in a page.

Macintosh Programming Frequently Asked Questions

The Macintosh Programming Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list is written and maintained by Jon Wätte, h+@nada.kth.se, who posts it regularly to comp.sys.mac.programmer.

Tech Notes

Macintosh Technical Notes are errata and addenda to Inside Macintosh. Use these notes as a supplement to Inside Macintosh.

Popular Internet Macintosh source sites

Here is a brief list of popular ftp or www sites which are servers for source to Macintosh programs

Macintosh application frameworks

This is a brief description of many of the popular application frameworks for the Macintosh.

CD-ROM Frequently asked questions

A page describing the various Apple CD-ROM drives, information about third party drivers, etc.

Programming languages

Here is a brief list of popular languages and compilers for programming the Macintosh. It's just my opinions...

Documentation sources

Everyone needs documentation to get started. Here are some suggestions, along with Internet sites where appropriate.

Porting your application to PowerPC

PowerPC. It's fast. It's a great use of RISC technology. Apple sold over ONE MILLION PowerPC machines in ten months. It's your future. For information on how to port your application native, look at this page.

OpenDoc

OpenDoc is a whole new way of building applications. Stop thinking about applications--parts is parts. The idea here is that you essentially write a C++ object that can be embedded inside any document. It is important to note that OpenDoc isn't really a framework in the sense of providing default "do the right thing" methods for parts. Instead it provides the class hierarchy alone. A cross-platform part framework is also under development.

DTS Sample code

DTS Sample code is now available for browsing via the world wide web. You can also download it using ftp from the DTS sample code area on ftp.info.apple.com.

QuickTime development

Kent Sandvik maintains a set of pages devoted to QuickTime programming.

QuickDraw GX programming

Look at Lawrence D'Oliveiro's Introduction to QuickDraw GX Programming page. There is also a QuickDraw GX fan club page as well as Apple's QuickDraw GX home page.

Mac Developer Mailing Lists

Many specialized mailing lists exist for Mac developers. There are mailing lists for Apple Guide, Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest, Mac Scripting, OpenDoc, and QuickTime Developers.

Other Apple sites

Some other Apple sites you might want to wander through include www.apple.com, www.info.apple.com, and www.cambridge.apple.com. There are some Apple ftp sites which contain much software, such as ftp.info.apple.com, mirror.apple.com, ftp.support.apple.com, ftp.cambridge.apple.com, etc.

You can also look at popular archive sites, some of which have web pages. Here are links for web pages to University of Texas microlib-mac, sumex-aim.stanford.edu, and mac.archive.umich.edu

Other places

Some other places you might want to explore are on www.info.apple.com and two web pages with information about Developer Support programs as well as information about Developer University and the courses it offers.

Both Taligent and Kaleida have their own world wide web sites.

The Apple Business Systems group has put up information about Netware for PowerPC.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) archive

Northwestern University has a collection of Macintosh FAQs available on a variety of subjects, including programming, application software, introduction to the Macintosh, etc. Check them out.


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