Re: HardPressed(tm) up for grabs

[slick_RCBD@hotmail.com]

Thanks for releasing it. I would like to make a formal request that Hard
Pressed be uploaded (or allow us to upload it) to one of the FTP sites, or
accessable with gopher. People with Netscape 3.0 or later may have problems
downloading it via HTTP.

In article <faddenEu7Kw5.K44@netcom.com>,
  fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden) wrote:
>
> 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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