Version 4.2's Gold Medal winner is none other than our very own John Magdziarz, or the appellation the janitor employs: herr magster a.k.a. herr doktor. John's contributions to the D.T. have been a "food staple" for quite some time. He's forged such sterling works as ivcalc, lackey, vidmap, scrollmon, and seqgrab, as well as crafting (and voicing) the v4.1 developer toolbox "greeting" sound file one can run when demobook fires up.herr magster's proclivity for creating applications that fill in some of the gaps in sgi's software functionality is a tremendous boon to everyone grappling with attempts to tame the sgi beast. cmapdoctor, a scanner/viewer for all X colormaps/visuals including overlays, underlays and popups, is definitely such an application. to be a little more concrete here about the Gold Medal, some of the janitor's general guidelines for such an award are:
Having applications such as John's on the d.t., help distinguish it as a pre-eminent resource, useful to people both in- and out-side SGI. It is with great pleasure that we bestow the Gold Medal award for version 4.2 of the d.t., to herr cmap-doktor, gifted in the art of creativity, inventiveness, and boldly going where few others care to trod. 'nother good one, herr magster!
- a tool, utility, src example, application, or data set especially useful to "fill a hole" left unaddressed by sgi's engineering community.
- something exceptionally beautiful/meaningful that serves as a stellar example of what is possible to do/create on/with an sgi machine.
public/bin/linkwinds JPL src/apps/gmemusage Roger Chickering src/apps/gvi Baron Roberts src/exampleCode/inventor/DirectManipRevoSurf Paul Isaacs src/exampleCode/inventor/SpaceballViewer Jym "powder daze" Terhorst src/exampleCode/opengl/oat George Kyriazis src/exampleCode/video/simpleVideo Don Bennett src/exampleCode/viewkit/builderExamples Doug Young src/exampleCode/X/xshowcmap2 Joel Tesler src/swtools/libdmalloc Don Hatch