HardPressed(tm) up for grabs

[fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden)]

Well, everybody else is giving stuff away, so I figured I'd join in on the
fun. :-)  HardPressed was published on June 7th, 1993, exactly five years
ago today.  (You're not going to believe this, but that's a coincidence!)

HardPressed is a commercial program for the Apple IIgs.  It was a fairly
slick variation of the "Disk Doubler" theme, and would transparently
compress and expand individual files when you accessed them.  It had lots
of wizzy features, including dynamically loadable compression modules (to
hell with this "you must restart your system now" nonsense) that could be
chained together, compression that was selectable by file type, the ability
to designate disks and directories where automatic compression would (or
wouldn't) take place, and a Finder extension for squashing and un-squashing
things manually.

You could compress enough stuff on the System 6.0/6.0.1 disk to fit a full
HP installation -- with slightly more space free than you had before you
started -- and if you had an accelerator card it wouldn't take any longer
to boot up.

I still think it's cool. :-)  I'm not sure if it will be useful to people
running emulators, since disk space isn't at such a premimum these days,
but perhaps someone will find a use for it.

One item of note: the publisher has agreed to let me make it available on
the condition that their name and phone number be removed from the product
(they don't want people calling up asking for tech support!), and that I
make it clear that HardPressed is UNSUPPORTED software.

The manual is in a framemaker document somewhere.  If the publisher can
find it, and I can get it convered to PDF or some other format, I'll put it
up on the web site.  For now, you're stuck with the nasty draft document
that I hacked together once upon a time.

HardPressed v1.0.2, Spre, HPRT, and the draft docs can be found in the
Apple II Downloads section of http://www.fadden.com/ (which is an alias for
http://www.spies.com/~fadden/, in case you're surfing with a crusty old
version of lynx).

I've also put copies of NuLib v3.25, YankIt (with source code), the Arc3D
demos (remember Not Modulae?), and some other stuff there.

Drop on by and take a look...
- Andy
1998/06/07

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