History of ASpringies
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  It all began in late 1992, when I played around  with  xspringies on
the Dec workstations at the University  of Bielefeld, Germany.  It was
very entertaining,  and I thought  that this program deserved an Amiga
port.  When I decided to buy an  Amiga 4000/40  later that year,  this
idea  turned out to  be  my  first  serious  programming  job on  that
machine.   Using the the tools  listed below, programming was a  great
fun, but due to my lazyness it took much too long to get  it ready for
distribution -- about one year and six months.

  Thanks  to the powerful  programming  tools  and  the  unique  Amiga
operation system, ASpringies,  although consisting  of  only some more
than 50kB executable, is  now (ahem) much  more comfortable  than  its
ancestor, xspringies.

  ASpringies was developed using the following hardware and tools:

 o Standard A4000/40/6/200
 o SAS/C Compiler 6.3
 o MUI (Magic User Interface)
 o Gnu Emacs editor (a must for at least every programmer!)
 o RCS  (Revision Control System)
 o much time and passion...

Version history
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Version 1.0: first public release