Re: Free Apple II software & Nibble Online

[Dan Foster <usenet@evilphb.org>]

In article <XRfKe.9110$0d.7195@trnddc02>, Joshua Bell <inexorabletash@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I asked Mike if the software was included (it wasn't). The reason given is 
> that it wasn't around any more!

Guessed as much.

> I'd infer from that that, should the community go through an effort to 
> collect copies of the companion disks/software (either through OCR, dredging 
> up floppies, "finding" images on Asimov, etc) and handed it off to Mike, 
> there might be the possibility for distribution of some sort.  But that's 
> just a hunch.

That'd be nice.

I'd offer, but I haven't found a suitable low-cost OCR program yet that
runs under Linux. The ones I see for Windows tend to be ~USD $500 and
up. *Wince*

(There's a few free OCR software for Linux, but they're terrible. Tested
with various documents a year or so ago.)

> I'd pay for a CD/DVD full of the disk images.

Indeed.

-Dan