Earlier this week, Glen Bredon’s widow, Anne Bredon, released his software — including the popular Merlin assembler — as public domain, including the source code. Some confusion has now arisen as to whether or not the release of Merlin is valid, as — at least when it was being sold — its copyright was held not by Glen Bredon, but by Roger Wagner Publishing. Efforts are being made to determine the true status of the Merlin software.
Andy Molloy
Posted inSoftware
Zedcor\’s ZBASIC compiler now freeware
Howard Katz of the Lost Classics Project has obtained a freeware release for ZBASIC, an excellent 8-bit BASIC compiler with a number of useful extensions for data processing and graphics. You can download it from the Trenco archive.
Posted inSoftware
Glen Bredon\’s software released into public domain
Anne Bredon, Glen’s widow, has authorized the public domain release of all of his software, including ProSel, the Merlin assembler, and more?complete with source code. We’ll have files available for download here on A2Central.com soon. Thanks to Charles Turley for his assistance in obtaining this release, and to Mrs. Bredon as well for her generous donation to our community.
Posted inGeneral
Delphi text-based services to be unsupported soon
Delphi sent email to its premium account members today, informing them that effective November 1, 2000, the text-based services and premium accounts would no longer be supported. They aren’t closing (yet), but will receive no maintenance and users will get no technical support. This turn of events means that at any time after November 1, Delphi’s text-based service could stop functioning.
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Marinetti TCP/IP stack to be open source
Richard Bennett announced this morning that the Marinetti TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS will become open source. Read the press release online.
Posted inKansasFest
Y][KFest Photos Now Available
A2Central.com’s Y][KFest Photo page has now opened. The photos have been contributed by generous third parties that weren’t too busy to take still shots during the events.
Posted inHardware
A2Central.com to Provide LANceGS Support
A2Central.com has been selected by ///SHH Systeme to provide support for the LANceGS card. Our LANceGS Support Area is now under construction.