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- A few years ago I sold my bicycle
- business and turned to shareware for
- my livelihood. At first, my wife,
- Lynne, and I focused on the
- distribution end of the business.
- Although we enjoyed and profited
- from duplicating and mailing
- thousands of disks, we felt like
- going a step further. We wanted to
- write shareware.
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- Our first shareware product was
- BICYCLE TUNE-UP & REPAIR, a
- pictures & text disk which teaches
- bike repair. Since I couldn't find a
- program to build the presentation, I
- made my own rough drawing program
- and a nice run-time presentation
- program for it.
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- Then came another tutorial called
- OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING, which teaches
- all about gas welding from the very
- beginning to advanced stuff like
- welding aluminum.
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- Lynne created a very important
- disk, one which helps everyone,
- called NON-MEDICAL PAIN RELIEF. In
- it she explains valuable techniques
- including Swedish massage,
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- acupressure, and natural remedies
- for minor aches and pains ranging
- from headache and toothache to
- arthritis.
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- Soon, people were asking what
- program we used to create these. So,
- of course I polished it up, wrote
- extensive instruction files, and
- wrote BLACKBOARD. It was the first
- to use ASCII-Vector-Graphics, the
- technique with which we get so much
- information on one disk! It also
- allowed a combination of text,
- graphics, sound effects and music
- all in one presentation. However, it
- was limited to the CGA-monochrome
- graphics mode. The next version was
- "ANOTHER PROGRAM" which was for
- 16-color VGA presentations. Soon
- after that, ANOTHER PROGRAM version
- 2.0 was born, which works in all
- standard graphics modes through
- 256-color VGA.
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- Now it is called THE MULTIMEDIA
- WORKSHOP, which is the newest
- version of ANOTHER PROGRAM. It has
- so many more features, such as 10
- fonts, scalable both vertically and
- horizontally, .PCX file import, text
- import, and much, much more. And
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