This is where I tell you a bit about this marvellous product and ask you to send a small contribution to encourage me and other shareware writers to continue producing inexpensive software like this for the general public. All I ask is £20 or equivalent, $30 or 150F or whatever, or a postcard, shareware, or anything like that. If you don't send me anything then I'm afraid you are putting the future of shareware – value-for-money software in huge variety – at risk, and extending the tentacles of the global monopolists. Thanks in advance. If you want source code, tell me when you register and send an extra £5 for my thousands of lines of miscellaneous routines. Do you like my CDEFs, MDEFs and LDEFs? I do. Anyway, they're included with the code.
Standard rate: £20/$30
Student/Part-time: £10/$15
Unemployed/Union: £6/$4
I've spent ages writing this program, from November 1992 to about May 1994 on the QuickBASIC versions, from 1.0 to 4.5; and from December 1993 to April 1995 on the THINK C version – 5.0c. This was updated to version 5.01c, completed in May 1995. This was further enhanced during May, culminating in version 5.02c, and later the mighty 5.03c in June. The "c" after the version number is an indication that versions 5.0c and onward (unlike the previous ones) were written in the language C, rather than in QuickBASIC, this makes for product of much greater speed and quality. This is just one reason why Biorhythms 5.03c is the most powerful biorhythms application available for the Macintosh. • Microsoft products were used at no stage during the development of this product.
My address (again) is: Andrew Regan, 27 Queens Road, Warsash, Southampton, Hants, S031 9JY , while my e-mail addresses are ecuue@csv.warwick.ac.uk and andrew_regan@iconex.mactel.org. I am a student (University of Warwick – Economics and Politics), but don’t let that put you off.
This piece of software, like most sharware, is not a product of the free market. Wouldn’t you rather support shared knowledge for the collective advancement of society rather than Bill Gates’ bank account?
Compatibility
I started writing Biorhythms 5.0c using Symantec THINK C 6.0 on my old Macintosh Plus 1/20 with System 6.0.5, completed it on a Macintosh LCIII 4/80 with System 7.1 using THINK C 7.0 and ResEdit 2.1.3; and tested it on an LCII 4/40 with System 7.0.1. Biorhythms 5.03c should work on any System 7 Mac but System 6 is no longer supported. Sorry! Although colour is not essential, 5.03c will work very much better with it.
If you have any problems with 5.03c running on your own particular system/memory/model configuration then I would greatly appreciate it if you would tell me the symptoms so I can fix the problem for the next version.
Tools used to create Biorhythms 5.02c:
Symantec THINK C 6.0 and 7.0; ResEdit 2.1.1 and 2.1.3; ClarisWorks 2.0; Metrowerks ZoneRanger 1.2; FlashIt 3.0.2; DocMaker 4.1; Swatch 1.2; Apple System 6.0.5, 7.0.1, and 7.1; Apple's MacsBug 6.5d6; GraphicConvertor 2.1; and various versions of OtherMenu.
