RVrvnx·Apr 11, 2026
Still wondering why the main character looks like Sammy from Scooby Doo
and yes:
https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/commit/30cb0e260d5ff478...
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metamage_1
Metamage open source, general repository, iteration 1
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6 sourcesThere's System 7 for Unix 'natively', with either Executor (there's a fork under Github) or some other project: https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/
https://github.com/autc04/executor
https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/
In Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)If you're okay with a System 6 appearance, I've already made one <https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/tree/master/68k/modules...>, for Advanced Mac Substitute <https://www.v68k.org/ams/>.
I do appreciate Alan Kay's thinking, in particular his talk "Normal Considered Harmful" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc>
My own high-level language, Varyx, has somewhat LISPy internals and is very dynamic — for example, you can annotate a variable with a type that's determined only at run time — and has an eval() that insulates the caller from the payload and vice versa. You can sequester mutable state within a closure, which can't be cracked open. Using an experimental Varyx build with some bindings for Apple's Core Graphics API, I wrote a script that rendered an arrow cursor (which I donated to the ravynOS project).
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lk. :-)
I hate to disappoint you, but the canonical way to clear a 68K address register is `SUBA.L An,An`. My asm-coded replacement for the Metrowerks code resource runtime uses it:
<https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/blob/master/mac/toolcha...>
In An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to bootPoking through it - it looks like it might include Perl, but no idea about what level of Perl-Unix-ism it might support. But I didn’t enjoy rereading ye old Perl implementation with Tolkien references [1] to give a feel for what the source file is about.
[1] https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/blob/4d1a24875036fee128...
In MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OSLooks like work on this began at the latest in 2014, with regular work up to the present. I'm not sure how it fits in with the author's other projects but it seems like there's a lot of integration.
https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/commits/master/v68k
In Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS