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>Why doesn't/won't Apple support this useful and potentially important
>tool? Make it sound better, fix known bugs, document better, and
>provide interfaces to most popular languages. Apple even throws in the
>disclaimer that MacinTalk may not be compatible with future releases.
>Why? It could be done through standard sound drivers to maintain
>future compatability, right?  So what's the problem.  We're onlyy
>talking about a half a man-year of someone's time at Apple to make this a
>powerful, extensible, and extremely useful tool to the developer and
>user community.
>
	It is my understanding (correct me if I am wrong Darin) that Apple no longer
owns the rights to Macintalk.  The original versions were not done by Apple but
by the same guys who did 'Say it Again Sam' (I think) for the AppleII.  Apple
just bought the rights to distribution (I don't know about source) and sometime
before the MacII came out this agreement went down the tubes... The MacII
compatible version is a 'hack' by none other than Paul Mercer, and was 'bought'
by Apple for supporting the II.
	Therefore it would take A LOT of work to redo Macintalk from the ground up,
though there have been rumors of such (though the revamp would use digitized
sound in a productive manner) for years...
	Hope this clears things up a bit.

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