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Re: ADTPro 1.2.7 Released



"David Schmidt" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:

> The only thing CiderPress could really use right now is updating of the UI 
> for newer windowses - but obviously I am not at all motivated myself  to 
> do that work.  It works fine for me, and I find it so useful that I  keep 
> a VM around just to run it on my Macs, and of course it's on my Win7 
> laptop as well.  So really, there isn't anything new that I need it  to do 
> right now.  If I did - I'd fire up the compiler.

I have the tarball here that I downloaded last night... is that the latest? 
I have the old build and project still workable here from 2008 and old 
compilers all installed so no problem for me to build.

> The CiderPress UI isn't always the most intuitive thing in the world, but 
> as a programmer - I am in awe of the symphony of code that Andy has 
> created.  I just have to add that to the discussion here.  I feel like I'm 
> a child with crayons scribbling on his canvas.  People only looking at the 
> outside might not get that perspective.

I also know who I am, and I see what you say. But I have but one broken 
crayon and only the floor to scribble on... fortunately all I want to add to 
the UI is a multi-select for changing File Info like File Types and Aux 
Types in ProDOS, or Filer Types and Load Addresses in DOS 3.3. I should be 
able to handle that...

My crayon may crumble in my hands if I am not careful. I will of course keep 
any big-bangs to myself and may ask you or Andy (if he's around) to be an 
intermediary when and if the time comes... to check this in.

> When I try to open the following link it shuts down my browser...
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ciderpress/

I should have said "On my Windows XP Box"... I have no problem accessing 
this from either of my Windows 7 machines...

So from what you have said, I have to assume that nothing has changed in 
CiderPress since those changes for CP/M and stuff 3-4 years ago.

I also want to get more familiar with AppleWin... and I had a crazy thought, 
should we look at bringing CiderPress and AppleWin into the same build 
environments ... which to me is lots of work... I am not good-enough to do 
so in my remaining lifetime.

You guys are code-monsters though and may have other thoughts...

Bill