Re: Seeking HyperScreen Author - George Brackett

[cornelio@san.rr.com (Louis Cornelio)]

In article <20000422050509.19387.00003147@ng-md1.aol.com>,
cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

> Louis wrote asking:
> 
> <<Oh, and hey - while you are working miracles -- can you find Jan Davidson &
> get a network copy of Word Attack Plus and Spell it Plus! ? I even have a site
> license, but the school *lost* the network copies before I arrived, grrr....
> And of course there is no contact left who has heard of these things,
much less
> provide them.>>
> 
> First I don't work miracles.  I research on the Internet to find people. 

well it will seem like a miracle is you actually find the right people to
get the permission to get things released. Scholastic and Davidson were
both huge companies & educ. Apple players - Davidson been bought up a few
times, so you are many layers away from the source & Scholastic still has
big empire...

> Concerning the rest of your request - I'll handle it *-thanks-*  and let you
> know the results.  

that would be great. Word Attack & suck like is, as you know, so good that
it is still marketed for wintel & mac.

>So, far I've talked with ONLY the Hyperscreen author, George
> Brackett and outlined that talk in my original post on finding, talking to and
> locating him about the program.  The Scholastic folks are away for the Easter
> Holiday as I also mentioned in my followup post on locating the author of the
> Hyperscreen program.  

so did he say *he* has the right to give away? Or just "nice idea" - talk
to Scholastic.  Oh I remember, the Word Attack is now owend by a French
conglomerate! really!

>Yes, it is a very fine program too - I agree with you on
> that.   As I mentioned in an email to another A2 user interested in
> reclassification efforts, I'll be in touch with the Scholastic folks
during the
> first of next week to see what I can arrange with freeware releases of
> Hyperscreen and other A2 titles of theirs.

I ca't recall which was better - Tutor-Tech or Hyperscreen. The latter
integrated with some other Scholastic programs...um.. I forget the titles.
But maybe I am getting it confused with Slide Shop - yet another
hyper-type program. yikes!
 
> I'll try to contact Jan Davidson after the Hyperscreen matter is settled
> with Scholastic and the other A2 titles they hold the copyright too.  If
> it's simply a (fast copy - non protected) network copy of Word Attack Plus and
> Spell it Plus you seek - I have them.   

yes, those are what I am after. As I say, I even have the signed license &
binder & all - but when I tried the Davidson trail (now leading to France)
they had no clue... I'll send school address in email. But try them on a
hard drive - the programs are mapped to external drive, so just cuz you
can copy them doesn't mean you have the "real" network version. I would be
surprised if you had those - they were quite expensive and only licensed
to schools, unless you got lucky & picked them up at auction. Locally the
school districts TRASH the software & auction hardware only, and only in
bulk.

> Do you seek them for the Apple II series or the IIgs?

AFAIK, there was no difference besides the size of the floppy. The
differences are the original series vs. the later "PLUS" series that made
using the editor much easier. 

Le us know how it goes...

-Louis