Re: ADTPro 1.2.7 Released

[fx <sfxman@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:48:20 PM UTC-4, Bill Buckels wrote:
> "David Schmenk" <dschmenk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Following up with Bill and CiderPress - although the GUI takes a little to 
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> > get used to, the benefit I get from it being non-flashy and using a very 
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> > old baseline of Windows APIs is that it works so well with WINE under 
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> > Linux.
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> Good point. What I had in mind with my idea of multi-selecting changing of 
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> file types and aux types is relatively trivial and does not warrant a port 
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> of any kind from VS6 which I don't think I've even used since David Schmidt 
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> and Andy made the last changes, and I compiled CiderPress just for the 
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> hellery of it at that time.
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> > I'm afraid updating its APIs to a more modern implementation might break 
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> > the fragile WINE compatibility.  However, at the very least, I have the 
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> > current version for WINE.
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> I'm sure we will all have VMs to run CiderPress if we need them. There 
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> really isn't any point in breaking Andy's packaging either... that was one 
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> of their concerns when the last changes were made.
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> Accessibility to everyone is also the reason I still write most of my Aztec 
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> C toys using the last 16 bit cl compiler (8.00c - 1993) that Microsoft 
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> provided with Visual C++, Version 1.53. MS-DOS emulators seem to be 
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> everywhere.
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> We can probably go softly into the night with this stuff, unless something 
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> really stupid happens like a meteor shower, a great flood, or 4 guys on 
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> horses trample all the geeks.
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> When DOSBox failed, Daniel Strang (hippo) was able to use Virtual Box and 
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> FreeDOS 1.1 under Windows 7 with the first Aztec C compiler for the 
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> Commodore 64 (which I distribute from my website as Aztec64). The last 
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> update to that was in 1985 as near as I can tell until I tweaked the hell 
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> out of it for some strange reason.
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> So there is likely still hope for Win32 and AFX.
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> The burning question to you however has more to do with Turkey Day PLASMA 
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> Fun! Did you ever do any more with Plasma II? (ducks)
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> Bill

I personally would like to be able to run CiderPress on a Linux system. I don't have an XP license key any more so even if I wanted to I couldn't run a Windows VM.