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- From: vputz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Victor Putz)
- Subject: The yak gets net access!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.021042.16917@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 02:10:42 GMT
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- All right, it's like this: my wife now has an account on the vax which I
- can use in small amounts. My weeks are pretty much consumed by UPT, so I
- only have weekends to spend with the aforementioned wife; this leaves
- virtually no room for programming; some things are far more important than
- games!
-
- The upshot of this is that I will probably do little more work on yakIcons
- in the next month or so (I'm told things get a little better after solo).
- I'm going to try and put together a demo of the current features and TRY
- to write documentation (if you've used the first few libraries, you know
- how bad my dox can be.... heh); expect yakIcons 2.2 up in about two weeks,
- maybe sooner. I will probably not be able to finish icon zooming; so
- sorry. Windows, fonts, sound, etc should be operational (and I have a
- modified keyboard driver up now that handles multiple keypresses etc.
- Credit to Jari Karjala (spelling) as I got the idea from his STK keyboard
- driver). You'll also get the platform game kit as it exists; it should be
- easy to add on, and it looks pretty good. Little has been done to upgrade
- the sprite editor, though I hope soon to have a converter from 256paint to
- .yak format. SHould be enough to go on.
-
- Hope you like it. yakIcons 2.2 will be free for the use and no license
- fee is required to use it in your commercial projects (though I'd like a
- copy ad the right to distribute it at cost (ie if someone pays me, I
- subtract the cost of the floppy it's sold on and send the rest to you).
- Tech support will be a phone call away (natch!).
-
- Good luck and good gaming,
- -->Vputz
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