Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Richmond
On 01/04/2013 01:35 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: I confess to being the producer/designer of the Mozart "Dissonant" Quartet CD-ROM back in the day. Colin and my stays at Voyager overlapped for a time. Robert Winter, the author of the program had the foresight to retain rights to the content. I w

Re: REGEX and Livecode

2013-01-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Thanks Peter. I'm a Mac guy so not familiar with the Linux terminology, > although I probably have the utilities you mentioned since OSX is Linux at > its core. *ack* No. Backwards. It would be fair to call Linux "unix at its core." Dar

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Yes on the Stravinksy, Rite of Spring. I produced most of the music titles except for the first, the Beethoven 9th Symphony (1989)--I was learned HyperCard on that one. On Jan 3, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > >> I confess to bei

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > I confess to being the producer/designer of the Mozart "Dissonant" Quartet > CD-ROM back in the day. Colin and my stays at Voyager overlapped for a time. > > Robert Winter, the author of the program had the foresight to retain rights > to th

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I confess to being the producer/designer of the Mozart "Dissonant" Quartet CD-ROM back in the day. Colin and my stays at Voyager overlapped for a time. Robert Winter, the author of the program had the foresight to retain rights to the content. I work with him at UCLA and we have been working to

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Robert Sneidar
That is why I added the clause that the author or developer would be immune from such legislation. I'm talking about a company that buys the rights to something, then kills it. Bob On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Robert Sneidar wrote: > > > There ought to be some kind o

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Graham Samuel
These arguments seem to assume that there is an individual author of a work. This is often true for books, but it isn't for lots of other things, including CD-ROMs. We have to include the idea that the 'author' is actually a commercial entity, like a publishing company and that there is really n

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 1/3/13 12:29 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Robert Sneidar wrote: >> >> > There ought to be some kind of clause in copyrights where if a >> > producer who is not the author or developer of something sits >> > on it and does not produce a product from it within a certai

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/3/13 12:29 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Robert Sneidar wrote: > There ought to be some kind of clause in copyrights where if a > producer who is not the author or developer of something sits > on it and does not produce a product from it within a certain > time frame, say 5 years, the auth

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Richmond
On 01/03/2013 08:45 PM, John Dixon wrote: Richard... You are forgiven for feeling a bit 'miffed' this morning..:-) but, I think that we should leave this one alone as I think that you are just about to open a can of 'bad feeling'... I agree with you, but only to a very limited extent, that in

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2013-01-03 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey Folks, Happy 2013! I've just added a new plugin to the AAG | Tools plugin collection. It is called FileDrag and I've been using it for years here to drag and drop stacks directly from inside the IDE to other applications such as Transmit SFTP client or GMail. You can learn more about this ne

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Colin Holgate
In December 2001 I went to a gathering in San Francisco, to celebrate QuickTime's 10th birthday. I made a video to show some of what Voyager had used QuickTime for. Hardly anyone watched the video (it was a loud party), but here it is: http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/video/voyagerq

RE: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread John Dixon
Richard... You are forgiven for feeling a bit 'miffed' this morning..:-) but, I think that we should leave this one alone as I think that you are just about to open a can of 'bad feeling'... I agree with you, but only to a very limited extent, that intellectual property should be protected...

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Sneidar wrote: > There ought to be some kind of clause in copyrights where if a > producer who is not the author or developer of something sits > on it and does not produce a product from it within a certain > time frame, say 5 years, the author has the right to reproduce > it themselves.

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Bob, This is an issue that has been under debate in the CopyRights/Patents Office/World for decades. I believe we will be seeing some major changes, as we have to some extent already, in the duration of these IP regulations. They are meant to protect and reward authors and inventors; not inhibi

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Robert Sneidar
There ought to be some kind of clause in copyrights where if a producer who is not the author or developer of something sits on it and does not produce a product from it within a certain time frame, say 5 years, the author has the right to reproduce it themselves. I'm sure it would be a legal ca

Re: Problems with arrayencode/decode

2013-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I tried binary access and non-binary access but got the same problem either way. What file access mode results from using the get/put URL commands? Converted text: put url ("file:"& tMyFilePath) into tData Unaltered binary: put url ("binfile:" & tMyFilePath) into tData

Re: Problems with arrayencode/decode

2013-01-03 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, I tried binary access and non-binary access but got the same problem either way. What file access mode results from using the get/put URL commands? Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > >> Hi Phil, >

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Scott Rossi
The world gets a little smaller... My wife designed the packaging for Alice and I bet we have a copy of the CD somewhere. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:58 AM, John Dixon wrote: > There are three CD's that I will always remember... I at

RE: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread John Dixon
There are three CD's that I will always remember... I at one time owned them all, but alas I have not got a clue where they went to..:-( >From Alice to Ocean Hard Days Night Just Grandma & Me... The first two being hyperCard and the third made in Director... As far as interactive material is co

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Colin Holgate
Towards the end a German family invested in Learn Technologies Interactive, in the form of acquiring most of the Voyager CD-ROM titles. LTI had their own engineering team in Bulgaria, and so didn't especially need me, but remained as my work permit sponsor company, and I found my own work (most

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread tbodine
How did the voyage of Voyager end? Or is it still going in some form? As others have noted, it's a shame these creations were orphaned by tech changes. Looks like the "Donald Norman CD" came out just as the WWW was taking off. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-re

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Colin Holgate
That series, First Person, had four titles to it. I made the HyperCard version of the Marvin Minsky, Stephen Jay Gould, and Don Norman CD-ROMs, and one for Mumia Abu Jamal using Director (it had to be cross platform right away). Then we had other companies do a PC version using either Visual Bas

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Colin Holgate
Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/18687931 I posted a reply to Don. There are a bunch of other things I made shown on that page too. On Jan 3, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > Here´s video about the CD and a little comment from Donald Norman where he > wishes to resurrect the who

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Graham Samuel
Yes, it's sad that so many weren't "re-purposed" (i.e. adapted for other platforms) and so evaporated. Warner New Media did a fantastic one on a late Beethoven string quartet (Op 131) that was definitely HyperCard based. Presumably totally dead now. In fact after CD-ROMs in general turned out

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Richmond
On 01/03/2013 04:55 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: For some funny reason that doesn't show up; can you repost it, Please? Richmond. Here´s video about the CD and a little comment from Donald Norman where he wishes to resurrect the whole CD for newer machines. Regards Matthias Am 03.01.2013 um 1

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Here´s video about the CD and a little comment from Donald Norman where he wishes to resurrect the whole CD for newer machines. Regards Matthias Am 03.01.2013 um 15:16 schrieb Richard Gaskin : > Tom Bodine wrote: >> Hey Colin. This holiday the kids (now grown) wanted to fire up some favorite

Re: Shoutout to Colin

2013-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tom Bodine wrote: Hey Colin. This holiday the kids (now grown) wanted to fire up some favorite programs on their childhood Mac. The box of wares from the 90s included a Voyager CD: "Donald Norman: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine." And there you are in the credits as programme

Re: Problems with arrayencode/decode

2013-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Phil, Happy to say that worked. The only real difference is the use of get url and put url so not sure what was going wrong before but thanks for correcting it! Were you reading as "file" or "binfile"? I run encoded arrays through base64Encode for network transport, bu