Re: AWGS Reclassification

[wernst@cris.com (Warren "Llama" Ernst)]

gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones) wrote: (and I heavily snipped and
edited)

>Here is all the information I've dug up about AWGS, its source code, and
>efforts to update it. It is an article which is currently _not_ in its
>final form. Hope it helps, and comments are welcome.
>
>-Gareth
>
>Notes toward a History of AppleWorks GS
> 
> It bought the company, kept
>the rights to GSWorks (which it renamed), and sold the rights to all the
>other StyleWare products to another company, Beagle Bros. 

> Other word processors you could use are
>BeagleWrite GS (which I haven't tried) and Medley 2.0 (a fascinating
>program, now freeware, but which doesn't support the standard Clipboard).

You'll find that MultiScribe GS/BeagleWrite GS is virtually identical
to the word processing module of AWGS, mostly because, I believe I
recall, it was developed by the same team at StyleWare, and probably
used similar source code.

Our programmers had a hell of a time updating BeagleWrite GS beyond
simple bug fixes and name changes due to very poorly documented source
code too. In fact, I seem to recall that the source code, as we got it
at Beagle, didn't compile either. I'm pretty sure Mark Munz can
comment on this directly.

Otherwise, this was a great post and story to read. I haven't heard as
many details about it before, but I believe it all.

Virtually,
Warr
former Beagle Bros tech support
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