Since there has been little technical documentation released recently (besides the Rhapsody/OpenStep documentation on last month's disc), and lots of worldwide system software needing to get out, we decided this month to replace the regularly-scheduled June Reference Library Edition of the Developer CD Series with a System Software Edition, featuring worldwide versions of Mac OS 7.6, the 7.6.1 Update, Open Transport 1.1.2, QuickDraw 3D 1.5 & 1.5.1, QuickDraw GX 1.1.5, and QuickTime 2.5. Other new and revised packages are listed below.
Disk Copy 6.1.2: Disk Copy 6.1.2 is a utility application that will mount disk images on your desktop, make exact copies of floppy disks from a disk image, convert disk images from one format to another, and create a disk image from a mounted volume or individual folder. Using DiskScripts and AppleScript, it can be used to automate software installations and disk image manipulation.
Drive Utilities: This package contains Disk First Aid v7.2.2, a disk repair utility, and a new version of Drive Setup v1.2.3, a program that lets you partition, initialize, and update fixed and removable disks.
Gestalt Selectors List 3.7: This document lists all selectors known to the creator of the Gestalt Selectors List for use with the Gestalt Manager. These can include selector codes installed by Apple system software or by your software. The information in this list is useful for programmers who use the Gestalt Manager with their software (even using externals, as with HyperCard, 4th Dimension, and so on). Note: This is NOT AN APPLE PRODUCT. It is provided on an AS-IS basis. Apple is not responsible for any problems you may encounter in its use.
Macintosh CD-ROM Setup 5.3.2: This folder contains the net-install for Apple's CD-ROM driver.
Sample Code Update
ARPSample1.0b1: The OT ARP module provides an ARP service that is used by the OT TCP/IP stack. This sample demonstrates how you can get direct access to the ARP module to, amongst other things, add and remove ARP cache entries.
FinderDragPro: FinderDragPro demonstrates how to use the Drag Manager's flavorTypeHFS and flavorTypePromiseHFS flavors and, to a lesser extent, how to interact with Finder via AppleEvents. This sample serves as an illustration for Technote 1085, but you may find it useful regardless.
Moofwars 1.01: MoofWars is a DrawSprocket games sample that shows a few techniques for fast drawing of sprites as well as a scrolling, tiled background. With about 1400 sprites on the screen, this code can achieve 15 frames per second on a 7100/66 and 30+ frames on an 8500/120. Thanks to DrawSprocket, it takes full advantage of page flipping -- with less sprites on the screen, an 8500 with full video RAM can achieve 66 frames per second with full screen 640x480 animation.
NeoTextBox97: A replacement for the toolbox call TETextBox, with some added features, like returning the bottom edge of the text as drawn. Additionally described in develop issue 9.
TPIFile1.0b1: TPIFile is a sample TPI module that lets you open a "TPIFile" endpoint, connect that endpoint to a Mac OS file using an FSSpec, and then read that file using standard Open Transport API calls (eg OTRcv). Requires Open Transport 1.1.1 or later.
