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Re: Apple Software Bank - anyone have it?



On Feb 7, 1:26 pm, Stavros Karatsoridis <skara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 1:06 pm, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have, and would be willing to image, the complete Apple
> > Software Bank?
>
> > From what I can find, they published 5 volumes total.  Some of the
> > programs can be found here and there, on random images, but I haven't
> > been able to find a comprehensive set on Asimov or anywhere else.
>
> I have all five volumes. I will upload images of all five to Asimov.
> They have been converted to DOS 3.3 from DOS 3.1 (yes, 3.1. Those
> disks came out in 1978 and 3.2 didn't come out until 1979).
>
> As for Artist Designer and Pascal Animation Tools, those are copy
> protected and harder to image. They are both Pascal programs, and fell
> under Apple's Special Delivery Software line. Strangely enough, the
> Pascal Animation Tools specifically say not to use them with any
> version of Pascal greater than 1.0, even though 1.1 was out at the
> time the tools were released.
>
> Most of the programs released on the cassette tapes were later
> released on the five volume Contributed Programs disk set.

Thank you sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

It looks like someone put Vols. 3-4 from the Mac GUI Vault into
Asimov's incoming folder - however, I would be interested to see if
they match up with what you have.