GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (Gern) (01/29/88)
Painter's Apprentice is a Z-100 'MockPaint' which is in most ways superior to that on the Apple MAC. It was written by Russ Nelson at Clarkson University where it was made available to the 3000+ students with Clarkson Issued Z-100s. It was also written to prove that the Z-100 capability was as good, if not better, than the MAC. ZDS had some sort of arrangement and was selling it for around $79 in the Heath catalog - with zero description, no mention that a mouse is required, and no Fan Fare that it richly deserves. As silently as it appeared in the catalog, it is now dropped. It should be a crime the way ZDS showed zero promotional effort to PA (and many other programs as well). I only hope that ZDS lost money on the deal... Anyhow ZDS's mess up is now our gain as the author is now able to make it available directly by USnail. I will step out on a limb and say that Painter's Apprentice is THE BEST program I have ever seen written for the Z-100 to make use of the video hardware and is a powerful design and drawing tool. Every Z-100 owner should have it. I will start putting PA Image files in the PD LIB soon. It is now at a price everyone can afford. Send check or money order to: Russell Nelson 11 Grant Street Potsdam, New York 13676 You need a mouse (save yourself the software driver hassle with other programs and get a REAL Microsoft mouse) to use it. The package also includes utilities, Fonts, and a mouse driven COMMAND.COM replacement. Oh ya, you must get a Serial Mouse. To run with Z-100 MS-Windows, the mouse must be MS-Mouse HARDWARE compatible (ie. Built by Microsoft). Cheers, Gern Disclaimer - I am just a very satisfied user of Painter's Apprentice and have nothing to do with it. Sure, I know Russell Nelson, he was a Grad Student when I was an Undergrad at Clarkson. He is now some sort of advisory/assistant/something to the Dean of Educational Computing. I would still make the same recommendations even if I didn't know him - So There! -------
bh0r@clutx.clarkson.EDU (Rob Logan) (01/29/88)
Rember that any program that comes with a MS-WINDOWS run time lib or claimes that it runs under MS-WINDOWS in a IBM-PC will run on MS-WINDOWS in the HZ-100. There are quite a few WINDOWS programs out now. The only thing that stops us from running the newest ver of excel is WINDOWS2 and a 286. idia: If someone gets a copy of WINDOWS2 for the IBM (I just have 386 windows) you can copy your 100 drivers onto it and make a 100 ver and run EXCEL with a v20!!! Now that would be cool. Rob