Re: How can I get the source code?
Re: How can I get the source code?
- Subject: Re: How can I get the source code?
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:37:02 -0700
On Jul 14, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Lilian Meijer wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is a question for this list but I don't know
where else to ask.
I'm a starting developer with still a lot to learn. Because everybody
advises you to try examples to increase your skill and understanding,
I would like to port or rewrite one of my favorite Mac OS 9 games to
Mac OS X.
At the Mac Developers University they provided an application to see
if your application is portable (called Carbon Dater), but I don't
have the source code for the game. All I have is the installed game on
9.2.2 and the installer which is created with Stuffit SEA version 4.5.
The game is shareware and therefor I wrote to the developers for the
course code but I got my email back with the message it couldn't be
delivered and the website doesn't function anymore, so I think the
company doesn't exist anymore.
Is there someone who has an idea how I can open the application so
that I can reach the source code?
Any suggestion would be very much appreciated.
The application only contains the compiled form of the original source
code so you cannot get at the original source code used to make the
application.
I don't believe Carbon Dater requires access to the source code (it has
been a while however since I last used it). I believe it only needs to
scan the executable itself to give you a report on what OS calls you
are using and which could be problematic for Carbonization.
Anyway without the source code you will have a hard time porting the
application fully to the Carbon APIs. You could try decompiler tools to
generate source code out of the binary but the source that would be
generate would need a LOT of work to get it in to a human usable /
maintainable form (also depending on the license attached to the game
reverse compiling the code could be illegal).
-Shawn
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