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The yak gets net access!

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From: Victor Putz
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:10
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All right, it's like this: my wife now has an account on the vax which I
can use in small amounts.  My weeks are pretty much consumed by UPT, so I
only have weekends to spend with the aforementioned wife; this leaves
virtually no room for programming; some things are far more important than
games!  

The upshot of this is that I will probably do little more work on yakIcons
in the next month or so (I'm told things get a little better after solo). 
I'm going to try and put together a demo of the current features and TRY
to write documentation (if you've used the first few libraries, you know
how bad my dox can be.... heh); expect yakIcons 2.2 up in about two weeks,
maybe sooner.  I will probably not be able to finish icon zooming; so
sorry.  Windows, fonts, sound, etc should be operational (and I have a
modified keyboard driver up now that handles multiple keypresses etc. 
Credit to Jari Karjala (spelling) as I got the idea from his STK keyboard
driver).  You'll also get the platform game kit as it exists; it should be
easy to add on, and it looks pretty good.  Little has been done to upgrade
the sprite editor, though I hope soon to have a converter from 256paint to
.yak format.  SHould be enough to go on.

Hope you like it.  yakIcons 2.2 will be free for the use and no license
fee is required to use it in your commercial projects (though I'd like a
copy ad the right to distribute it at cost (ie if someone pays me, I
subtract the cost of the floppy it's sold on and send the rest to you). 
Tech support will be a phone call away (natch!).

Good luck and good gaming,
-->Vputz
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From: vputz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Victor Putz)
Subject: The yak gets net access!
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