gvrod@ccvax.iastate.edu (01/16/91)
how do i get SANE for my APPLE//c+ ? i belong to APDA, but i have not seen it available there. -- rod eldridge gvrod@isuvax.bitnet vax systems gvrod@isuvax.iastate.edu iowa state university bus: (515) 294-7498 postmaster@isuvax.bitnet fax: (515) 294-1717 postmaster@isuvax.iastate.edu
jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen) (01/16/91)
gvrod@ccvax.iastate.edu writes: >how do i get SANE for my APPLE//c+ ? i belong to APDA, but i have not seen >it available there. It isn't available through APDA. (Even things that are 'available through APDA' take forever to get. Try getting technotes sometime.....) You have to do what I did: talk to someone in Apple's software license department and beg for it. They'll ask you what you want it for. I told them I was using it to convert some data from Appleworks, which uses SANE. The program comes on five 5 1/4 inch diskettes (at least v 1.1 did) some of which are Pascal format diskettes. If you use this in any software you distribute, even freeware or shareware, you'll need to pay apple's licensing fee. Last I knew, for SANE it was $50.00 per program per year, same as ProDOS. You might have to talk to a few people before you get someone who knows what you're talking about. Keep with it and eventually you'll get somebody who knows. What you need to ask for is '6502 Assembly Language SANE'. My version 1.1 is dated November 6, 1985. If you are using this with ORCA/M 4.1 (ProDOS-8 version), you might have better luck with the floating point library Byteworks sells to go with it. It supports the same IEEE floating point format SANE does, except for SANE's 80 bit extended precision mode. It's a _lot_ faster and a _lot_ easier to use than SANE is and a _lot_ easier to get (about $40 from Byteworks). I never did get that conversion program working. Turned out to be easier to print my spreadsheet to a file and parse the numbers from BASIC. Hope this info helps! >-- >rod eldridge gvrod@isuvax.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey T. Berntsen | Looking for a good .sig jeffb@world.std.com | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ben Liblit) (01/17/91)
I got SANE without paying a cent. There's an address given in the Apple_Num-
erics_Manual, which you're going to need anyway if you want to use SANE. Maybe
I just happened to luck out, but there was never any mention of a licensing
fee. I sent them a letter and they sent me back disks.
Ben Liblit
BRL102 @ psuvm.bitnet -- BRL102 @ psuvm.psu.edu
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