Simple Porting
Volume Number: 10
Issue Number: 5
Column Tag: PowerPC Series
Related Info: Quickdraw
Simple Porting to The Power Mac 
Runtime considerations and things you really want to know
By Chris Forden, Cupertino, California
Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM orsource code disks.
About the author
Chris Forden is a Cupertino-based consultant who tested Power Mac system and
application software for Apple prior to the Power Macintosh release. He is the
principal author of Real Answer™, a shareware calculator and equation solver. He
helped found ARSoftware and collaborates with them to advance ARC++, a superset of
C++. Recently he has worked to connect Silicon Valley K-12 schools with engineers,
scientists, and other community resources.
You can reach him at cforden@netcom.com or by phone at 408-255-4874, or
301-434-0949.
When Apple released the Power Macintoshes, it broke existing cost/performance
barriers in desktop computer hardware. Simultaneously, Apple premiered many new,
key software technologies that facilitate advanced and high performance applications.
The high performance of the underlying PowerPC hardware will attract many users to
the platform before most developers have learned to exploit the new software
capabilities, or even do simple ports of their existing applications.
Despite wavering reviews in the Mac press about the relative performance of
emulation mode on the Power Mac, few buyers will be disappointed in its speed, and
knowledgeable critics will be impressed with its fidelity in imitating the behavior of
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