[NTLK] Learning Remote App?

[Matej Horvat]

> I'd also like to read the notes included with the sample app
> to see whether the name of the author (if it's mentioned)
> rings any bells.  It would be cool if it turned out
> that the guy I read about years ago and the author of the
> app were one and the same. :)

The text file that lists all 1.x samples by name credits Mike Cremer and Kent Sandvik. The sample is in this zip file

http://www.unna.org/unna/apple/development/NTK/winntk/1.6b10/SAMP95NT.ZIP

under Newton 1.x Sample Code\Communications\IR Remote Sample-2. (Of course, there's a Mac version too.)

Here's a comp.sys.newton.programmer thread where Mike Engber and Kent Sandvik talk about it:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.newton.programmer/browse_thread/thread/abd27442ecebad29/2da3ac21240d3c94?lnk=gst&q=powercd#2da3ac21240d3c94

> 2) Where the -heck- did you find NTK 1.0.1?  :) 
> Is that something you've had on hand for a while?

I don't have it - the text file suggests that this version of the sample is from the time of NTK 1.5. Well, I actually have the NTK 1.0.1 demo from an image of the WaiterHelper disk, which was distributed with the book "Programming for the Newton". The image was sent to me by a list member. The demo is identical to the full version, but it does not allow you to change the package name and the packages it produces display a notification when they are activated. But you could hack the packages with a hex editor to disable that. Why do you want version 1.0.1 anyway?

Matej Horvat