Dude, we get the point. You gave them some way to convert an old, obscure document format, they didn't credit you. Nobody wants to scroll past all your rants to read the actual reviews. You don't have to force this shit on MU's users just because you didn't get what you wanted from the dev.

Thanks.

So you sent unsolicited material to someone who neither acknowledged the receipt of it or indicated they used it in any way but you feel you have somehow saved the day and thus should be rewarded? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh... I'm going to need you to come in saturday for some TPS reports.
And you claim to be a professional writer?!?!
DUDE! WTF!

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Dev, the link I received via a bundle purchase a month or so ago now throws a 404 error. Why isn't Sparkle included? Sure would make life easier. In any event, how to upgrade??

You were probably thinking of MacLink Plus.

Nope that is not it although this utility did make use of MacLink if you had it. I also want them to add MacWrite that although they did not mention it and still did not write me I DLed AC and tested it again for grins to see if they made any progress with the MacWrite issue since it has been only a few days since I wrote them. To my major surprise the text and RTF buttons were lit. Being a reviewer and beta tester for about 30 years here are my results that I sent to them:

As a beta tester (yes I did plenty of that too). The initial code you wrote is good but not perfect. Text mode is readable but sloppy with a lot of unreadable misc. characters that require some great work to delete and do other formatting to get the doc back to near normal. Some of the original text is out of place and has been some how has been moved around. Why, I am not sure. The main body of the text is coherent and really does not need much adjustment.


Rich Text Format does a better job at the conversion. First there seems to be less unreadable misc. characters and more of the text is more in order but still not perfect. There is still parts is the doc that has been moved again but not as much. I applaud you for what you got done on you first attempt. I really did not expect to see the codex as it is in such a short time. I am also surprise you did not indicate this in the what's new area up top. I may not be a programmer, but, I do know a 5 star winner and awards this program will be getting if you continue to add codex for material that could be open only in Classic mode. There are sound file that fall under this problem as well. To help some more I am going to give you some more of my older articles and some sound files that I use to use on my Mac.

Like I said I was really floored when I dropped a close to over 20 year old file on it and it was able to recover almost all of my article. As I said it looked best in RTF but still needed a bit of time tweaking it to get what was close to its original look. I also suggested that it would be wild if they could get it to convert as a Word doc. Unlike many people who had their MacWrite stored on floppies I kept them on my first external 20 meg HD and they moved each time I evolved to my next Mac. I would love to put these gems together in a book that I would call the history of entertainment on theMac since I go back to 1984 to around 2005 (about the time of intel games only) When I was Contributing Editor and Writer for Inside MacGames I use to write a column called the Bottom Shelf where I reprinted my older articles. But I digress.

AC has a very bright future and is going in the write direction especially if they look into older program that people used but cannot be open in OS X. AC is on track to receive many accolades and awards if they keep going in this direction. End of Line

IIRC, There was a Claris extension system that did some things like you mention (wish I could get it to work in OSX as well as install on an old G3). It's icons resembled a "printed page" as a thick arrow, that was rolled in a partial cylinder on it's side...
Was that it? Something like Claris XTND?!?

I finally remembered the name. It was called CanOpener and I still have version 3.0 it could convert any text file into a readable file. It never failed and did work with MacLink to work even better. I could not believe I found a copy of it on my drive after all these years. The code in it could probably help the guys at AlienConverter if they contact me. End of line...

OMG! I remember that, I had two major versions, and early one, and the final one. It was very helpful poking into things you normally are not meant to. Used it to recover several database and word processor files, before in-line data compression started being used.
When I set up an old G3 as a legacy device for earlier versions of MacOS, I'm going to have to track down a copy of that in my disc files.

Well now you can at least recover MacWrite Files with AC thank to me. They still have not made a rebuff or write me via email. I do not know why they won't communicate which is making me think they are thing but a bunch of selfless people who cares one bit to those who help or they do not have the gonads to respond. End of line...

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