I'm uploading two archives. Both are full commercial versions with no
need for a serial code.
Prograph Classic 2.6.1.sit \- this is the archive I recommend. I took
the folder from a Pictorius PDN CD (distribution CD for Prograph CPX),
added IAC Goodies, and added the Common Ground MiniViewer which is
required for some of the documentation. This archive contains far more
sample code and documentation. I believe it may represent the last
commercial incarnation of Prograph Classic.
Prograph Classic 2.6 dc42.sit \- this is a Disk Copy 4.2 archive of
the three v2.6 commercial floppy disks plus the IAC Goodies disk. (IAC
Goodies came from an earlier release, but I haven't located those
disks yet and may not have them.) The problem with this archive is
that they squeezed out numerous samples and docs in order to fit the
distribution on three disks. I'm uploading this for historical
purposes, but you're better off with the 2.6.1 archive if you actually
want to play with Prograph Classic.
Overview
Prograph was a visual, object orientated, dataflow driven programming
language available on Mac OS in the 1980's and 1990's. You can read
more about it on Wikipedia: <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph>
Prograph was not a text language labeled "visual" just because it had
a GUI IDE. It was an iconic dataflow language. You would literally
draw your code. Unlike other flowchart developer tools of the time it
was a real, expressive language. You could open any computer science
book and implement the algorithms in Prograph.
The original version was superseded by Prograph CPX. At that time the
original version was renamed Prograph Classic and was eventually
released in two versions: freeware and commercial. Both of these
archives are commercial versions of Prograph Classic but do not
require a serial codes to work.
Prograph Classic could only compile 68K apps.
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
* Mac Plus (128K ROM) or higher.
* System 6.0.7 or higher.
* Minimum of 1.8 MB of free RAM for Prograph.
* 2.6.1.sit archive expands to 54 MB on hard disk.
* 2.6 dc42.sit archive expands to a folder containing 4 disk images at
5.3 MB total.
* Does NOT run on Power Macs unless you can turn off the Modern Memory
Manager. It will launch but will shortly crash hard requiring a
restart. I do not recall which version of Mac OS eliminated this
option, but I know that Mac OS 9.x does not have it.
* I believe this will run in SheepShaver if you can turn off Modern
Memory Manager.
* Do not use the included MMInit extension unless you have a Mac IIfx,
IIci, IIsi, or LC running System 6. All it does is patch an issue
involving those machines which otherwise leads to slower performance.
System 7 fixes the issue as well.