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Hi Folks,
Hackathon II has officially begun, although we got off to a rough
start. Cotton flew in from Boston and his PC was damaged in transit.
Last time he flew out he was allowed to insure it, this time he
wasn't. Ouch. We should have a new motherboard on Wednesday. In the
meantime Mat and he are sharing a machine.
Cotton and Mat have fixed a major bug in 32-bit color quickdraw and
they wrote few missing color quickdraw routines. Those fixes allow
Ultima III and Rescue to run nicely and for Photoshop 3 to run better.
A regression that was preventing a number of programs (PGA Tour Golf
and Kid Pix come to mind) has been fixed. I've fixed a few filesystem
bugs, so now "Bodyworks' Installer" works and KidPix can save and
restore pictures now.
Tonight Mat and Cotton are working more on Photoshop 3 and I am trying
to find out why FileMaker Pro hasn't run under Executor in a long time
(but it *did* run under Executor/DOS 1.2). During the day, Melissa is
processing credit card registrations and doing tech. support. She's
also working on our manuals and web pages from home.
http://www.ardi.com is making steady progress due to her effort. If
you see places that would be appropriate for links to our WWW pages,
please suggest them.
During the next two weeks we will be working on these applications:
Abbreviationes BodyWorks Browser
Canvas Demo Claris Organizer ClarisWorks 3.0,
Dr. Razz FileMaker Pro 2.1 Fontographer 3.5,
GIFconverter Greg's Buttons HyperCard 2.1, 2.2
Illustrator 5.5, LabanWriter MacDraw Pro
MacGambit Nisus Writer Norton Utilities 2.0
PageMaker 4.2, 5.0 Photoshop 3.0 Persuasion 2.1, 3.0
Quark XPress 3.3 Quicken 5 SimuVent
Swivel 3D 2.0 Think C 7.0 (maybe) WriteNow 4.0
and these games:
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 Glypha Oxyd
Realmz SimLife Spheres
Swoop
There's no guarantee that we'll make progress on any particular
application, but I'd *guess* we'll make significant progress on at
least three quarters of those listed above.
In addition we'll be going through our bugs database trying to find
"penetrating" bugs, i.e. ones that exist in several different
programs. Fixing penetrating bugs is one of the most efficient ways
for us to boost Executor's compatibility with apps in general.
If you've read this far, then you probably are paying fairly close
attention to what we're up to. In general we don't use this mailing
list to directly ask people to license Executor, but due to a few
unexpected expenses (Cotton's damaged machine being the most recent
one), we would greatly welcome any registrations done in the next week
or two. The $49 student/educator price and the $99 commercial prices
will be going away in the next couple of months, so if you're planning
on exercising that option anyway, now would be a good time for us.
We hope to have our first BleedingEdge patch to 1.99p out in the next
couple of days.
Thanks for your continued support.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com