Nov 21, 2015
Quantum Fog Legacy History
This GitHub project is intended to be loosely based on a Mac application called Quantum Fog (referred to as QFogL henceforth. L for legacy).
QFogL was written by R.R.Tucci. Tucci received very valuable assistance from uber programmer David Phillip Oster, who ported QFogL from Classic to Mach-O.
QFogL is written in C++.
QFogL depends on a C++ class library called PowerPlant that implemented beautifully and effortlessly the Mac GUI of those times. PowerPlant can be found at SourceForge (http://open-powerplant.sourceforge.net/), but, alas, it has not been updated to run on the current Macs.
QFogL vers.2.0 (last legacy version) was compiled on Sept. 11, 2006, with CodeWarrior Vers.10.0, the last version of a compiler/IDE made by Metrowerks Inc., a company that no longer exists.
QFogL vers. 2.0 has been tested on an eMac with PowerPC chip (G4-1.25GHz) running MacOS 10.4.11.
QFogL vers.1.6 was the last version compiled for the Classic Mac OS. QFogL vers 2.0 can run under Mac OS X for PowerPC chips, as it is a Mach-O application, but it cannot run on Intel chips (unless you use some kind of PowerPC emulator on an Intel Mac).
The source code for QFogL vers.2.0 is included in the Legacy folder of this GitHub quantum-fog repository. Additional information and downloadable files related to QFogL can be found at www.ar-tiste.com/qfog.html