Anyone have a Codewarrior 8.3 for Mac for sale? Otherwise ..

Hi there,

I have come into possession of some software that was built on
Codewarrior 8.3 and rather than port it to something else, I'd rather
just find a Codewarrior 8.3 license and get that and build it that
way. So if anyone wants to part with their 8.3 for Mac, let me know.
Maybe I'd consider a newer version as well (9 or 10?) but I'd be
interested in this case in people's experiences in taking 8.3 apps to
9 or 10. Anyone care to pipe up on that? And if you have a 9 or 10
you'd like to part with as well? Thanks in advance.

Chris

On Sep 10, 1:15 am, cmarkle <cmar....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have come into possession of some software that was built on
> Codewarrior 8.3 and rather than port it to something else, I'd rather
> just find a Codewarrior 8.3 license and get that and build it that
> way. So if anyone wants to part with their 8.3 for Mac, let me know.
> Maybe I'd consider a newer version as well (9 or 10?) but I'd be
> interested in this case in people's experiences in taking 8.3 apps to
> 9 or 10. Anyone care to pipe up on that? And if you have a 9 or 10
> you'd like to part with as well? Thanks in advance.
>
> Chris

It appears to be available at diskovery.com:

http://www.diskovery.com/codewarrior.html

Remember that if you purchase the 8.0 package, you will still need to
download the 8.x updaters found at:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=012726006178821402

As for experiences, a couple of things to remember:

1. Metrowerks (now Freescale) discontinued CodeWarrior with version 10
in the spring of 2006, so you will not likely get help from them.
Version 8.x itself was discontinued by 2004, so OS update and hardware
compatibility is not guaranteed after that time.

2. CodeWarrior 8.3 is expected to run on Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar or Mac
OS 9.x Classic. Debugging a Classic app requires you to launch CW in
Classic.

3. Although CW 8.3 was not officially supported on Mac OS X 10.3
Panther or later, there are some steps you can do to get it to run and
debug properly on that environment. Do a search in this newsgroup as
MWRon (the CodeWarrior moderator at the time) described the steps in
detail.

4. Version 8.3 was the final version to support being hosted on
Classic.

5. If you decide to upgrade, version 9.4 was the last to support
Windows cross-compilation.

6. If you are running on an Intel-based Macintosh, CodeWarrior 10 will
compile and run in Rosetta, but I do not know how well previous
versions ran. Also, no version of CW allows debugging on Intel.

If you have any more questions, let me know.

Regards,

Jonathan Hoyle
http://www.jonhoyle.com