"Polymorph"  wrote:

>Well, I have received a follow up email from Vince, and it does appear that 
>it is a legit email. What is more, Vince has dropped any action regarding 
>my website and has also stated that he is pursuing matters to have the 
>software reclassified as freeware which is great news.

This sounds very complicated. What is the problem here I wonder. First he 
threatens and now he pursues matters. This sounds like Vince has some kind 
of contractual nightmare of either a distribution agreement nature or of a 
corporate ownership nature or even a liability nature.

Nice to hear the change of heart. Maybe he needed to hear that his product 
was still desired.

>At the end of the day, it is a good result if this software does not just 
>disappear like so much other software already has, and even better if it 
>can be kept as freeware. This may encourage others to develop for the IIgs, 
>which really doesn't have all that many developers left.

Well this was your point in the first place I think.

>I have always stated that the goal of my website was to educate via 
>example, and to promote programming on the Apple II, specifically the IIgs 
>because it is where my interests lie at present; mostly due to me not 
>owning a IIgs back in the day (I had a //e) and the machine has me 
>intrigued to see how far we can push it.  :-)

My GS should be here this week. I did have a GS but only used it to test 
Apple //e programs. The GS also had an 8086 card of some kind which at the 
time didn't interest me. Even the Mac IIci I had didn't interest me much. I 
just programmed what I needed to and got back into MS-DOS and Windows 
programming which paid better.

At this point for me I want to give the GS the chance it deserves. ORCA C 
for me I think mostly but want to dabble with Aztec C cross-compiler as well 
if I can.

Bill
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