Hi,
I stumbled upon this group today.
I am the main author of "You Bet Your Head!" from AD 3.0 and my name is James M (the full name is in the module, but I do not like to see my name on the internet)
I can get ALL of these to run again, if you really need it and if i have time. Or I can help someone.
In fact, a two line code fix would have made all the after dark products work even on 9.2.2 I seem to recall (the main engine was defective).
Steve Zellers (number one experienced tech guru lead) made a boo boo I think, and oddly the company never got their engine to work as apple updated the OS.
The Number two coder god was James M also but last name was Mattly), I am not Mattly. I am the other James M.
I was number 3 guy at Berkeley Systems, skills wise. In fact as I wrote that particular module (You Bet Your Head) which eventually became You don’t Know Jack after it was so successful, I had just shipped a second version of FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit. (I also had way more sound effects, graphics and zaniness in You Bet Your Head, but they gutted it and whittled it down a year later when they shipped it to get it to fit on floppy discs! It still was a hit. Annoyingly they added another guys name along with mine in the credits, for no damned reason, but I wrote every line.
In fact, both After Dark 3 and FWB CD-ROM Toolkit were both in top 10 unit sales the same month and I wrote 100% of the FWB CD-ROM Toolkit product and all of the AD plugin game I mentioned already.
anyway... i shipped some OS X cocoa stuff this last month "Sprint SmartView" for mac a couple months ago. Yup, another multi million dollar generating app majority crafted by me, (GPS mapping and more for sprint cell data cards for Mac users).
I have also written a hundreds other things: firmware for Mac fibre channel cards, special effects for movies and tv, lots of Windows programs, etc.
BUT MY NAME IS NOT LOCATABLE ON THE INTERNET ANYWHERE, try Google for hours if you do not believe me. I am the most humble person you would know, other than the boasting in this post.
The people that share the same name as I, can be found using google but they are not me, and one oddly enough is a programmer (the windows CE guy).
PLEASE keep my last name out of this thread. I am not kidding that my name is nowhere on the entire internet except perhaps patent grants or trademarks or periodic 'Edgar' US filings.
If my name appears here on this web site I will not contribute overtly nor covertly to any of your endeavors. You will also really make me sad.
I am the most famous anonymous person in history. heh.
And I am here, and genuine, and willing to help you guys.
Heck I almost ported some AD modules (rewritten parts by me to PowerPC first, then reconsidered as C) just because many people do not know the origins of Itunes Visualizer which came from Sound Jam, which descended from a Berkeley Systems module called Frost and Fire which came from a long time special effects coding guru not mentioned in this thread.
I cant believe you guys mentioned one of the things I crafted over 14 years ago in a thread this week. I have to say one thing... even though it was only 10 weeks of design and coding, it is one of my fondest memories to this day. I coded software for a decade before that as well, by the way. I owned an Apple II when they came out.
I am a geezer, but i still do 86 hour work weeks every week to this day and live on no sleep. (slept 3 hours last night, 4 hours the night before), typically need 5.25 hours though.
Somehow I will make time to help out the cause here.
=James M
I stumbled upon this group today.
I am the main author of "You Bet Your Head!" from AD 3.0 and my name is James M (the full name is in the module, but I do not like to see my name on the internet)
I can get ALL of these to run again, if you really need it and if i have time. Or I can help someone.
In fact, a two line code fix would have made all the after dark products work even on 9.2.2 I seem to recall (the main engine was defective).
Steve Zellers (number one experienced tech guru lead) made a boo boo I think, and oddly the company never got their engine to work as apple updated the OS.
The Number two coder god was James M also but last name was Mattly), I am not Mattly. I am the other James M.
I was number 3 guy at Berkeley Systems, skills wise. In fact as I wrote that particular module (You Bet Your Head) which eventually became You don’t Know Jack after it was so successful, I had just shipped a second version of FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit. (I also had way more sound effects, graphics and zaniness in You Bet Your Head, but they gutted it and whittled it down a year later when they shipped it to get it to fit on floppy discs! It still was a hit. Annoyingly they added another guys name along with mine in the credits, for no damned reason, but I wrote every line.
In fact, both After Dark 3 and FWB CD-ROM Toolkit were both in top 10 unit sales the same month and I wrote 100% of the FWB CD-ROM Toolkit product and all of the AD plugin game I mentioned already.
anyway... i shipped some OS X cocoa stuff this last month "Sprint SmartView" for mac a couple months ago. Yup, another multi million dollar generating app majority crafted by me, (GPS mapping and more for sprint cell data cards for Mac users).
I have also written a hundreds other things: firmware for Mac fibre channel cards, special effects for movies and tv, lots of Windows programs, etc.
BUT MY NAME IS NOT LOCATABLE ON THE INTERNET ANYWHERE, try Google for hours if you do not believe me. I am the most humble person you would know, other than the boasting in this post.
The people that share the same name as I, can be found using google but they are not me, and one oddly enough is a programmer (the windows CE guy).
PLEASE keep my last name out of this thread. I am not kidding that my name is nowhere on the entire internet except perhaps patent grants or trademarks or periodic 'Edgar' US filings.
If my name appears here on this web site I will not contribute overtly nor covertly to any of your endeavors. You will also really make me sad.
I am the most famous anonymous person in history. heh.
And I am here, and genuine, and willing to help you guys.
Heck I almost ported some AD modules (rewritten parts by me to PowerPC first, then reconsidered as C) just because many people do not know the origins of Itunes Visualizer which came from Sound Jam, which descended from a Berkeley Systems module called Frost and Fire which came from a long time special effects coding guru not mentioned in this thread.
I cant believe you guys mentioned one of the things I crafted over 14 years ago in a thread this week. I have to say one thing... even though it was only 10 weeks of design and coding, it is one of my fondest memories to this day. I coded software for a decade before that as well, by the way. I owned an Apple II when they came out.
I am a geezer, but i still do 86 hour work weeks every week to this day and live on no sleep. (slept 3 hours last night, 4 hours the night before), typically need 5.25 hours though.
Somehow I will make time to help out the cause here.
=James M