If Monks CD-ROM - test download please

[stephen barncard]

Thanks for the download. I'd never seen MONKS before, although I knew of its
existence, being a Mac developer in the late 80s.

What hasn't been talked about is the excellent extra NEW material that Brian
added. Great photography and essay.
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


2010/1/4 Brian Thomas <insidepocket at gmail.com>

> Yes I know it is not an application, and there is a story attached to that
> one Colin. But, it works, doesn't it?
>
> Why?
>
> Monks was more than an interactive presentation. There were 2 applications
> -- a Journal and an e-book reader -- built-in, in addition to the
> interactive presentation. Since we didn't want the user to have to have
> enough memory to run 3 Revolution standalones at the same time (this was
> planned out in last millennium) we put the Rev engine into one of the
> standalone's -- so they would have to only have two standalones open at
> most.
>
> So, the Rev engine in the Journal runs the interactive presentation and the
> journal application. If you open the Journal app you go straight into the
> sophisticated Journaling application, if you open the document you go
> straight into the Cloister and the interactive presentation.
>
> *** Colin -- I remember fondly a few of the things you said to me when we
> were building Monks like:
>
> "If Monks had Windows they'd jump out of them."
>
> ---- It turned out that with Revolution Windows development was a piece of
> cake. However, we were developing it at the same time that Revolution was
> working out its bugs with the Mac platform and Steve Jobs was jerking that
> platform around  every few month with a new version of OS X -- that changed
> the underpinnings of the OS.
>
> This is long, but, now I'm ready to tell the story. Just before the burning
> of the CD's a new version of Revolution came out with something we needed,
> but broke the perfectly sensible code we were using to launch Monks.
>
> So, Sarah, from this Revlist saved the launch by writing for us an
> Applescript that relied of our Monks creator code to launch Monks. And, I
> thought, why throw away the old launcher, I think I'll just leave it on the
> CD-ROM and call it "the back-up launcher" even though it stopped working.
> Maybe someday it will work again...
>
> And that, is really a nutty way to think. However, five years later, Snow
> Leopard stop recognizing Creator Codes and Sarah's AppleScript stopped
> working. Then I checked the Back-up launcher...
>
> and it worked!!!!
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Do you know that the launcher file is a Unix document, and not an
> > application?
> >
> >
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