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- Hi Folks,
-
- Until we got 1.99p out, I was in crisis mode. I let some of my e-mail
- slip and am now trying to get totally caught up again before cranking
- out the remaining new code for 2.0.
-
- Now that Melissa is working for us, "questions@ardi.com" should be
- answered promptly, but my e-mail will continue to back up
- periodically.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
- >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:
-
- Jeff> ARDI, As a side note... Would it be possible to make the
- Jeff> floppy access a little smarter when it comes to
- Jeff> mounting/unmounting disks and for formating? Either this
- Jeff> was broken a while back, or I couldn't get things to work
- Jeff> right. It would have been helpful if you put in a
- Jeff> non-macintosh disk and hit "probe for floppy", that you get
- Jeff> a dialog box that says "NON-MACINTOSH disk!" or something.
- Jeff> (It would really be a plus if it then asks "format disk?"
- Jeff> and has options for different format types!) Additionally,
- Jeff> I seem to remember that using "format floppy" was a bit
- Jeff> odd--perhaps I had a bad sector on my disk, or perhaps it
- Jeff> was broken under the version I tried it on... But could a
- Jeff> format be verified some way? Again, a nice dialog box would
- Jeff> be great!
-
- The format code was broken for a while, and even now (and in 2.0)
- Executor won't do a low-level format. It will only write a blank
- Macintosh filesystem on top of an already formatted floppy.
-
- Your suggestions are good ones, but we have frozen 2.0's features and
- are now scrambling to get everything put together and out the door.
- We will be making the source to the Browser available when 2.0 is
- released, so prorammers who really want to spruce it up will be able
- to.
-
- Jeff> I know ARDI has been trying to avoid the "look&feel"
- Jeff> lawsuits that Apple seems to like so much, but I really to
- Jeff> want a better way to delete files, and a more direct way to
- Jeff> see a mounted floppy. Could the top title bar possible make
- Jeff> a cute little ICON of a floppy disk whenever there is one
- Jeff> mounted? (As opposed to the "hot band" idea, where if you
- Jeff> are in the "programs" part, you can't see the "drives"
- Jeff> part...)
-
- Another good idea, but we just can't get to it before 2.0 is out.
-
- Jeff> Could we possible hear an update on what ARDI is thinking
- Jeff> for 2.0 GUI improvements? What happened to the hiring of a
- Jeff> graphic artist to make icons, etc...? I'd like to be able
- Jeff> to give you all feedback on these items since I think its
- Jeff> really important to ARDI's success!!!
-
- We ran out of money. On the other hand, we've had a couple (maybe
- three) people send us icons to use in the Browser and we now have to
- find them and examine them and incorporate them, so our Browser will
- be slightly less ugly by the time 2.0 ships.
-
- Jeff> Later, Jeff Halverson
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-