Little 'GEnie' Bits
By Sean Craig
Copyright (c) 1993 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
o (August 30, 1993 -- St. Clair Shores, MI) Quality Computers, the world's largest Apple II mail-order retailer and publisher, announced today the signing of an agreement with Claris Corp. (Mountain View, CA) which will make Qualty the publisher of AppleWorks and AppleWorks GS, the popular integrated packages for the Apple II and IIGS.
"Claris will continue to focus their development and marketing efforts on their Macintosh and Windows products," says Joseph Gleason, president of Quality Computers. "We will provide Apple II users with the integrated software solutions they want and need."
Quality's "Quadriga" project, also known as TheWorks 4.0, was originally envisioned as an independent upgrade to AppleWorks 3.0. Now, however, Quadriga will be released as version 4.0 of AppleWorks. "The fact that we were already working on the upgrade went a long way toward convincing Claris that we were the right company to take on the product," comments Gleason.
The new version of AppleWorks, developed by veteran AppleWorks programmers Randy Brandt and Dan Verkade and featuring dozens of improvements to every area of the program, is scheduled to begin shipping on October 1. Users who upgrade will receive new program disks and a new reference manual (including a "What's New" summary), and, if the order is placed before October 1, a free "Enhancing AppleWorks" video.
Quality also plans a new version of AppleWorks GS within the next year, and is now soliciting user suggestions for that upgrade. Gleason indicates that further upgrades, such as an AppleWorks 5.0, may also be in the cards.
The AppleWorks 4.0 upgrade is $79.95 from version 3.0 ($99.95 from older versions). For further information, contact Quality Computers, 20200 Nine Mile Rd., St. Clair Shores, MI 48080, or call 800/777-3642 or 313/774-7200.
o Pointless 2.0.2 available soon! The new version of PointLess should be ready in a week or so (*SubEd note: by the time you read this). There are few fixes and improvements: 1) Corrects the System 6.0.1 Font Manager bug in Choose Font option; 2) Improved memory management; 3) Improved font rendering routines including accented characters; 4) Added a dialog box when attempting to save a bitmap font with incorrect paramaters such as point size set to zero. There are number of other fixes mostly internal that a user would not normally see.
We will be sending out flyers to registered users to announce the new version and an offer to buy the update. However, we will also be uploading a "patcher" program here that you can download to update the program. Feel free to distribute the "Patcher" to other PointLess users and to include it on user group DOM's.
Please don't hound me about exactly when the update and patcher will be ready, I have enough to do with slurping soft drinks and such without responding to inquiries. Updates to PointLess v2.0.2 from version 2.x is only US$5.00. "Upgrades" from pre-version 2.x is US$19.95. (Westcode Software)

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