Re: Did Claris buy TimeOut QuickSpell from Beagle Bros?

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 31 déc 2008, 23:02, Warren Ernst <wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 10:08 pm, Hugh Hood <hughh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
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> > 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

In the French magazine Pom's, some once developed TimeOut
applications, please download Pom's 42 and read page 7 and further:
http://sbm.ordinotheque.free.fr/apple/poms/

You'd better understand French. I will post a link to the diskette
when I am back to Paris.

Regards,

antoine