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  1. ryandesign

    68k Why call FlushEvents between InitFonts and InitWindows?

    Is anyone aware of any Apple documentation that explains the reasoning behind the specific place that they suggested calling FlushEvents during application initialization? The Road Map chapter of Inside Macintosh I suggested the Toolbox be initialized this way: BEGIN {main program} {...
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    68k Archiver/extractor that works on a Macintosh 128K

    What's the best archiver (or at least something that can extract an archive) that works on the Macintosh 128K and ideally with the oldest system versions? Compactor 1.21 (later known as Compact Pro) doesn't work: I made a self-extracting archive on a Macintosh Classic and tried opening it on a...
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    68k Determining amount of installed RAM

    I'm having trouble programmatically determining how much memory is in the computer. For the original Macintosh and later systems not running MultiFinder, the answer seems to be the TopMem() function, which returns the _MemTop global variable. However when running MultiFinder it returns the end...
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