Copyright ⌐ 1995 by Michael D. Trent; all rights reserved.
Credits
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Ult. 3 Scenario Editor was written in C using Metrowerks Codewarrior versions 6 and 7. In addition to using the Metrowerks Debugger, MacsBug was employed heavily while debugging the custom MDEF and CDEF. The MDEF was written from scratch; the basic CDEF shell was heavily modified from some source I found on the Internet one day.
Resources were created and edited using ResEdit. ResEdit was also instrumental in reverse-engineering the Ultima III map format.
Graphics in the program were created with Color It!, Kai's Power Tools 3.0, and GifConverter. Graphics in the Manual were created with Color It!, Kai's Power Tools 3.0, GifConverter, JPEGView, and Snapz.
The Manual was written using Simple Text. Why? I dunno - I guess I just like its minimalist quality. That and I spent an hour one day learning how to insert graphics into Simple Text documents.
Thanks
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I would like to extend my thanks to the following people/organizations:
Leon McNeill: For writing Ultima III '95; for giving me (or offering to give me) details on every piece of information stored in Ultima III's resource fork; for humoring me by looking at "Sosaria Map", "Sosaria Map II", and "Ult. 3 Scenario Editor" versions 1.0d0 and 1.0d1; and for graciously giving me a serial number.
As far as I can tell, after playing Ultima III on his Apple II, he got bored and started hacking around in the game. After hacking around in Ultima III on his Apple II, he got bored and WROTE the game for his Macintosh. After playing Ultima III '95 on my Mac, I got bored and wrote a character editor. After tweaking the character editor, I got bored and wrote Ult. 3 Scenario Editor. I figure, it's only a matter of time before I get bored and write Ultima III for my Newton ╔
Angela Telerski: For being a tremendous source of support; for letting me do development and testing on her PowerMac 7500/100; for letting me install MacsBug on said machine; and for not getting mad at me when I plugged the 7500/100 into my computer and invited my friends over for networked Marathon II.
Origin and Electronic Arts: For letting Leon release Ultima III '95. You both did the right thing.
Dave Mark, John Norstad, MacTech and Develop Magazines: From these people/publications, I have learned a whole lot about Mac programming. And now that I can write nice CDEFs with relative ease (presupposing that I know the difference between div and mod), I still find myself using the skills I learned from these people.
Epic Systems Corp.: For giving me a "Day Job", with which I can support my Mac habit.
And lastly, I'd like to thank all the people who wrote me thanking me for the Ult. 3 Character Editor. I appreciate each message! A day or so after Leon mentioned I was working on Ult. 3 Scenario Editor, I received an e-mail from Italy thanking me for that too!
About the Author╔
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Mike Trent (that's me) is a software developer at Epic Computer Systems, a Madison, WI based company primarily interested in developing health-care software. At work he programs on Pentiums and dreams of having the free time needed to develop cool Mac software. In his spare time, he plays frisbee golf, hacks around on his Centris 650 w/ PPC upgrade, plays double bass in symphony orchestras, reads Antarctic Press comic books, and sleeps (when he remembers).
Mike Trent has released a number of software products to the Mac community under the guise of "Azathoth Software"; including Ult. 3 Scenario Editor, CPU Reporter, Simple Sockets, Ult. 3 Character Editor, Mac Kerouac II, and a number of submissions to alt.sources.mac. One night, while playing with KPT 3.0, he devised a nifty logo for Azathoth Software; do not stare directly at it:
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Mike Trent can be reached at:
Michael D. Trent
Azathoth Software
3302 Leopold Way #110
Madison, WI 53713
mtrent@msn.fullfeed.com (<--- preferred address)
mtrent@epicsys.com
Check out his only slightly out of date web page: http://www.fullfeed.com/~mtrent/
