Andy McFadden has released CiderPress v3.0 and generously reclassified it as an open source project! Thank you, Andy.

According to Andy, 270 people registered CiderPress as shareware. Now, even more people will benefit from this essential application, and maybe someone will even take on the task of porting it to Mac OS X. (hint hint) A lot of people would love to see that happen.

Update: CiderPress now has a project page on SourceForge.

You can read Andy’s entire release announcement as posted on comp.sys.apple2 below…. 

CiderPress v3.0.0 has been released, with two minor updates.

– Thanks to some help from Jason Andersen, DreamGrafix images are now supported.
– I removed the shareware registration screens.  CiderPress is now free.

I want to thank the 270 people who felt my efforts were sufficiently useful to warrant registration.  I’ve had a lot of fun working on it over the years, and knowing that my work is appreciated helps immensely.

It’s hard to believe the first version of CiderPress shipped four years ago this month.  It seems like just yesterday.

I will, of course, continue to support it.  It’s become clear over the past year or so that I don’t really have the time to do meaningful development anymore, however, so I’ve decided to open things up a bit.

The complete source code for CiderPress is now available for download, under a standard BSD open-source license.  The full Windows app and some simple command-line utilities for Linux are included.

  Windows executable: http://www.faddensoftware.com/CiderPress300.zip
  Source code: http://www.faddensoftware.com/CiderPressSrc300.zip

With luck I haven’t omitted anything essential.  I hope to have a SourceForge repository set up soon.