From: swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Texas Bob/Eddie Froman depending on th'moon)
Subject: The Guide for Windows!, The Atari Guide, and TG! for DOS
Summary: Needed: original MS Windows 3.x icons and bitmaps!
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:00:21 GMT

Greetings to one and all, on this my first post of the new year!

Three major topics this time 'round:

1) TGW! (The Guide for Windows!) -- still under construction
2) TAG (The Atari Guide) -- first release
3) TG! (The Guide for DOS!) -- (slightly) new version now available

OK, here goes:

1) TGW! -- I'm currently developing this fantabulously hoopy program, and
     the process is coming along rather nicely!  It's going to be visiually
     stunning to behold -- if I may say so myself.  To the point:

     What's a good Windows 3.x program without icons and bitmap images?
     Not too much.  Thus, I'm officially asking all of you graphically
     inclined folks to invoke your icon editors and come up with some cool
     icons (I'd like at least two, but more is, of course, better!), and
     some bitmap graphics (I've got the one 320x200 "Don't Panic", and
     am looking for more!).

     Why bother?  Well, you'll be helping to forge a new frontier in Windows
     program development, as Project Galactic-Guide expands to previously
     uncharted territory; your name (as well as your icons and/or bitmaps)
     shall forever be etched in the TGW! folklore, which most certainly
     will be spread world-wide; and, perhaps the best of 'em all, why not?

     Anyway, watch here (alt.galactic-guide) for late-breaking news about
     the pre-alpha releases of TGW! (hopefully I'll have something that
     can serve as a sneak-preview by the end of January, if I receive some
     cool icons pretty soon).

2) TAG -- I've replied back to The Atari Guide's author, and now await
     receipt of his system; when it's here, I'll immediately put it in
     the FTP archives here, and make a posting announcing the event.

     I'm very pleased to see that Project Galactic-Guide is beginning to
     reach out to new systems; currently there are programs for IBM/DOS,
     Amiga, Atari, Unix, and, very soon, IBM/Windows.  Want to see a
     program for *your* computer system?  Why not write one, or help
     find someone who can/will?!

3) TG! -- I put a slightly updated version of TG! (for DOS) on the FTP
     here at Oakland; it's really *not* a big deal, just tinkering around
     a little bit -- BTW, it's now version 1.03, distributed as TG103.ZIP.

     Watch here for announcments for version 1.1, which should also be
     done by January's end; I'll have completely re-written the Print
     engine to be faster and more intelligent (like: auto-detecting if
     an article should be printed in compressed mode, and allowing you to
     specify the page range to be printed, instead of printing the whole
     article, etc).

     Anyway, TG! 1.03 is on the FTP site, and TG! 1.1 should be out soon.


Well, That About Wraps It Up For G -- oh, sorry, I mean -- this post.
Please reply with questions, comments, and/or money (wait, how did *that*
get in there?  I thought PGG was non-profit?  :^> )

Steve
swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu
"Gravity brings me down..."



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