Re: Did Claris buy TimeOut QuickSpell from Beagle Bros?

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Dec 30, 10:08 pm, Hugh Hood <hughh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> in article cd884826-5413-417a-b045-d5cbe4084...@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com,
> Warren Ernst at wer...@gmail.com wrote on 12/30/08 3:58 PM:
>
>
>
> > Alan Bird, and indeed all the TimeOut authors, have graciously given
> > the Beagle Bros Software Repository (http://beagle.applearchives.com/
> > the_software/) permission to distribute all of the TimeOut titles,
> > this year. I know this because I was the fellow who contacted everyone
> > and got the permission.
>
> > Why the site hasn't been updated to reflect this is unknown to me, but
> > I'm sure it will be soon.
>
> > -Warr
>
> Warren,
>
> Did Alan (or Beagle) ever have an internal 'white paper' or docs on exactly
> how to write a machine language TimeOut program for AppleWorks?
>
> I know Randy said that Mark Munz was the first guy to figure it out on his
> own, and I believe Barclay Clemesha and Christian Serreau did as well.
>
> With the source code to many older Apple II programs now available
> (especially all of Glen Bredon's utilities), it would be neat to try to
> write a new TimeOut or two.
>
> Have you ever seen such an animal, or know who might still have it?
>
> Hugh Hood...

Hugh,

I've never seen any sort of white paper or spec on how to write a
timeout application.

But since there were about 6 or 8 people who were doing it (and some
of them just wrote one or two apps), it stands to reason that there
must be some such document somewhere.

-Warr