METAL (forget about ACOS)

[<art@unknownrealm.org>]

I know that there was talk at one point in time about a GS version of metal, 
and apparently there was some preliminary work done on it.  Did anyone here 
actually ever get a chance to play with it / see it?  I loved Metal, but 
IMHO its biggest drawback was the fact that it didn't support msg bases the 
same way ACOS did.  Dealing with message bases in ACOS was easy as pie --  
while Metal wasn't that much more difficult, porting message base code from 
ACOS toMETAL sucked a lot of ass.

Whats TC up to these days?  Wasn't he also the one responsilble for MACOS on 
the Apple II?

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Yup, I bought it also...but I didn't get a disk.  I emailed TC for the 
> address to send the $95.00, he called me up and gave me a password that 
> would allow me to download it from TCQ.  I'm looking for anyone that still 
> has the source code to it (Joshua, Tony, anyone else?).  I contacted Shane 
> and he doesn't have it anymore.
>
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> <art@unknownrealm.org> wrote in message 
> TYWdne5l1dx9VybcRVn-pg@giganews.com">news:TYWdne5l1dx9VybcRVn-pg@giganews.com...
>> heh.. I actually *bought* a copy of Metal way back when it was not free 
>> in its *very* early days.  I still have the disk, it was a hand labeled 
>> and numbered disk.  Can't say if the data on the disk is still good, but 
>> its a cool keepsake I guess.
>>
>> Here's what I don't understand about the whole ACOS thing.  What is with 
>> these GBBS people?  All anyone ever wanted to do was improve upon their 
>> product, even way back when the 'hacked' MACOS version was released. They 
>> have been SOOOOOO against it, the whole thing is entertaining --  
>> especially in this day and age when your typical pocket calculator has 
>> more advanced software running on it than.
>>
>> "Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>> 321rvgF3h8o6vU1@individual.net">news:321rvgF3h8o6vU1@individual.net...
>>> Use METAL, it's free (and better IMHO)
>>>
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>>> <art@unknownrealm.org> wrote in message 
>>> C5WdndELM-TfMCbcRVn-tg@giganews.com">news:C5WdndELM-TfMCbcRVn-tg@giganews.com...
>>>>> There is no real money to be made with it and I only
>>>>> bought the copywrite to save it.
>>>>
>>>> Read: I will hoard my copyright till the day I die.  No one will ever 
>>>> be able to do anything with my product.
>>>>
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