Re: Apple II Optimizer released

[richard.b@genie.com (Richard Bennett)]

In article <1998080703425900.XAA00580@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

> The ShrinkIt archive A2Opti.sdk is a 3.5 800K ProDOS disk archive.

Which the Apple II community and the author of ShrinkIt recommend against.

> The disk contains; ProDOS v2.0.3,

Which is copyright Apple and you need a license to distribute.

> ProDOS basic,

There's no such thing? Do you mean BASIC.SYSTEM, which is copyright Apple
and you need a license to distribute it?

>  Optimizer can be used from a DOS
> 3.3 disk (if you wish to put it on such) or it can also be launched from GS/OS
> or
> ProDOS 16 - any version seems to work.

Cough... cough...

> It's been tested and seems to do a
> fairly nice job

I'd want it to do better than "seems to" before letting it loose on my
hard drive.

> If the program should
> encounters a problem, it aborts optimization and quits.

Leaving your drive corrupted?

> In such case it
> appears
> to leave the media storage device it's attempting to optimizer in the same
> manner
> as it was before the program started it's optimization process.

I'd want it to better than "appears to" leave my hard drive alone in the
case of an error.

> Optimizer is
> fairly fast - depending on the size of the device it's working on and is
fairly
> user friendly also.

Let me see, you point it to a disk and it optimises? How can you not make
it user friendly when there's only one thing that it does?

> I misplaced a box of disks containing this program in 1993

Maybe it optimised the box into non-existance.

> According to a current A2 user and friend who tested it a few days ago
and even
> wrote a short review, which I lost

Maybe you optimised it?

> No doubt there will be those that rag on me for releasing it,

Heh...

> but, hey...let them rag - I really don't care. 

Heh...

> I've uploaded it to Ground and it's also available now from:
> ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/Utilities/A2Opti.sdk

And all other good pirate archives I'm sure.