Usenet - NewsScoop - CSA2 - 5/24/98

In the original post this thread was generated from - concerning info on the
current status and avaiability of the MIDI Surgeon program - which also has a
shell interface, titled - Midi2gs (see ref.) from the following URL.

http://www.grin.net /~cturley/gsezine /GS.WorldView /*A2GS.SYNTHLAB/midi2gs.about.txt

I posted a reply asking the author of MIDISurgeon, if he'd consider releasing
MIDISurgeon as either a shareware or freeware for te IIgs user needs. This in
turn then resulted in a post from Max Jones" <maxjones@indy.net> - Editor of
Juiced GS - who reported this interesting bit of information with his public post
to this newsgroup - as listed below in quotation:

"As reported in the Winter '98 Issue of Juiced.GS, distribution rights for
GS+ Magazine back issues and related software were sold by EGO Systems to a
fellow by the name of Ross Falconer. I have exchanged e-mail with Ross, and
he tells me that he intends to make the GS+ materials available soon. That's
good news for the GS community!

Stay tuned.... we'll keep you posted"

Max Jones
Juiced.GS
http://www.wbwip.com/juiced.gs
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Yes, that does sound like good news indeed to me. For those not aware - Ross Falconer
(a programmer and past 1WSW team member)

Ross Falconer
Coeur D Alene,ID 83814
(208)667-4053 

Email: falcon@comtch.iea.com 

...was also going to work on an update/enhancement and rewrite of PovRayGS (an
amazing rendering, graphic and texture program), ported to the IIgs as an exec.
shell application by Baber (Jean Peire Charpenter) and mailed to me by him in
1995 with the src codes and his written authoriity in a letter giving me the
rights to release it as public domain, which I did. At one time back in 1995
I had an extensive html and a folder with many 256 color graphics rendered by 
the program on my GS WorldView web site - see ref. url:

http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/Gs.WorldView/ 

That folder (devoted to PovRayGS) has now been removed from GS WorldView. 
It's currently archived on Ground and the Grind mirror - see ref. URL's:

http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/Collections/1WSW/POV.GS/
http://liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu/8/ground/apple2/Collections/1WSW/POV.GS/

The PovRayGS shell application - public domain release required between 6 to
8MB's of RAM to launch and function properly. So, unfortunately very few IIgs
users have shown any interest in it's use or the amazing graphical rendering
functionality it offers. In fact - few IIgs users are even aware that it exist.

Ross had assured me it would be updated/enhanced, optimized to use less RAM with
better memory managment - with a rewrite by him, as a GUI desktop - GS/OS
application, then released as a freeware - about a year and a half ago. To date,
nothing ever materialized from that project he was going to work on, as a result of
commercial efforts he was supporting with others and projects he was working on 
with other computer platforms with his wife Sheila. (see Ref. - their WWW site):

http://www.iea.com/~falconer/

On the other hand - having know Ross well, while working with him on the above
mentioned project when he was a team member of 1WSW and knowing - as he often
expressed in our many telephone conversations - that he was well aware the IIgs
had no profits of any real significant value to be made from any commercial ventures
and assuring me that anything he did for the IIgs would be released a freeware, I'd 
have to speculate that the GS+ back issues with their programs will soon be freely
available as ShrinkIt archives for all GS users to have and enjoy. Those wishing
to find out for sure - might like to contact Ross Falconer - to ask him if he
intends to make them available as such!

Cheers,
Tom

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Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley
Editor - GS WorldView
http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/