Atari-ST RoundTable
Category 2,  Topic 7
Message 70        Fri Dec 10, 1993
OFFY [OFFY]                  at 00:34 EST
 
The current status of CWAC is dead.  I just wanted to let anyone know, that
might be interested.  I have moved completely out of the ST realm and into the
clone world.  I am quite a bit happier than I ever was with my ST.  There
simply is not any support out there for the ST, either commercially via
products, or as a shareware programmer by the users of the software.  Only a
handful (8 at tops) of people actually registered CWAC, which hardly makes it
worth the effort to continue spending hours updating code and adding wanted
features.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really grateful to the dudes who did register, because
it is those guys that keep any hope of ST shareware alive.  My early version
of CWAC was cracked (quite poorly, I might add.  The cracker made the program
do less than the uncracked version did.)

Now that I am not frustrated any longer, and now that I have absolutely no
need for the code, I am going to release every stitch of code that I have ever
done into the donation-ware world.  What this simply means is that if you
decide to use any of the code in one of your own projects, or should you
decide to further CWAC, it would be nice of you to make a donation to me for
the time spent doing your work.  Grin.  I am not placing the burden of
shareware on it, because I truly feel that the words 'shareware' and  'and
'Atari' do not go well together.

It may be a few weeks before I can borrow an ST to yank the code off of the
hard drives.  If, between now and then, someone decides they would like to
purchase the code exclusively to CWAC and to my 3-dimensional button routines
for standard GEM boxes, I ask $100.  For that, I give all rights to the code
to that individual and rescend the offer to upload the code here.  You may
contact me at 614-870-1220 to discuss this offer.

Again, thank you to the ones who supported CWAC.  I feel it was the best
archive conversion tool available on the ST platform (and I'm not trying to
toot my own horn, because it took a lot of work.)  I hope to meet some of you
on the clone platform in the future.

Lee