Been playing around with Think C on my old macs after seeing these videos and it’s great bc fun but I really miss my modern vim. Does anyone know if it’s possible to cross compile or something? (Tried a shared folder with apple share but the resource fork of the source file gets clobbered)
System 6 is older than me so I don’t know all the stuff that people do from back in the day.
Getting Vim to run on a Macintosh Plus with System 6 is actually a project I’m currently working on. The old Mac Vim binary versions 5.7 and 6.2 will only run on System 7 and up, and in my testing require a computer with color capabilities.
Progress is slow. There’s a lot of surface area; Vim’s codebase, the Macintosh toolbox routines, getting the code to build with CodeWarrior in a VM, setting up all the right libraries, and then running/testing it in a different VM.
Current status is that Vim can startup and you can enter text and quasi save it to a file. Movement commands work. But there’s a LOT more to do.
Resources to get started for those who may be curious:
I'm pretty sure vi/m needs a proper terminal, so... actually that might not be surmountable, given that there were probably BBS clients back then. But I suspect it would be easier to write a file system adapter that could let you safely share the files then to try and support a modern program in that kind of resource constrained environment.
System 6 is older than me so I don’t know all the stuff that people do from back in the day.