Re: ADTPro 1.2.7 Released

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"David Schmenk" <dschmenk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Following up with Bill and CiderPress - although the GUI takes a little to 
> get used to, the benefit I get from it being non-flashy and using a very 
> old baseline of Windows APIs is that it works so well with WINE under 
> Linux.

Good point. What I had in mind with my idea of multi-selecting changing of 
file types and aux types is relatively trivial and does not warrant a port 
of any kind from VS6 which I don't think I've even used since David Schmidt 
and Andy made the last changes, and I compiled CiderPress just for the 
hellery of it at that time.

> I'm afraid updating its APIs to a more modern implementation might break 
> the fragile WINE compatibility.  However, at the very least, I have the 
> current version for WINE.

I'm sure we will all have VMs to run CiderPress if we need them. There 
really isn't any point in breaking Andy's packaging either... that was one 
of their concerns when the last changes were made.

Accessibility to everyone is also the reason I still write most of my Aztec 
C toys using the last 16 bit cl compiler (8.00c - 1993) that Microsoft 
provided with Visual C++, Version 1.53. MS-DOS emulators seem to be 
everywhere.

We can probably go softly into the night with this stuff, unless something 
really stupid happens like a meteor shower, a great flood, or 4 guys on 
horses trample all the geeks.

When DOSBox failed, Daniel Strang (hippo) was able to use Virtual Box and 
FreeDOS 1.1 under Windows 7 with the first Aztec C compiler for the 
Commodore 64 (which I distribute from my website as Aztec64). The last 
update to that was in 1985 as near as I can tell until I tweaked the hell 
out of it for some strange reason.

So there is likely still hope for Win32 and AFX.

The burning question to you however has more to do with Turkey Day PLASMA 
Fun! Did you ever do any more with Plasma II? (ducks)

Bill