[NTLK] Announcing Dash Board 1.5.2013d1!

[SteveCraft]

That is an awesome announcement. 

Thank you!

Just to show that the platform is still around, what if you re-versioned
your software to "Dash Board 2013"?

Thanks again!



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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 12:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] Announcing Dash Board 1.5.2013d1!

Ho-Lee Cow!
This is amazing news, thank you so much! Good luck with your work (and the
wee one)! Keep us updated!

--
Scotty Technoir


On 2013-07-01, at 11:26 AM, Mason Mark <mason-newtontalk at fivespeed.com>
wrote:

> Hello, party people!! :-D
> 
> Sorry for the melodramatic title. ;-)
> 
> I'm just writing to the list to let people know that yesterday I finally
released the open-source version[1] of Dash Board, my popular Newton OS 2.1
interface enhancement from the 1990s. (Hey, better fifteen years late than
never, right?)
> 
> There aren't actually any new features in Dash Board 1.5.2013d1, only a
couple new bugs, as described in the README. :-P
> 
> I also celebrated checking this off my to-do list by writing a
self-indulgent blog post[2] about it.
> 
> I'm afraid both blog post and GitHub README (and actually the source code
itself as well) are chock full of profane language and comments that aren't
appropriate for a family-oriented list like this one. So please allow me to
quote just a bit of the project README here:
> 
>> Finally, not really having anywhere better to express it, I want to say
thank you, thank you, thank you to the thousands of people who bought Dash
Board over the years. The success of Dash Board profoundly changed my life
for the better.
> 
> 
> I really mean that; I've now written a lot of other software in my life,
but none of it actually altered the course of my life the way Dash Board
did.
> 
> The main reason I bothered to finally open-source Dash Board, after
procrastinating for so many years, is Einstein. The hardware Newton devices
themselves are all dying (at least mine all have, except one
intermittently-booting MP2000 on critical life support), but with Einstein,
the Newton can live on. Perhaps not as an OS, but at least as an app that
provides a still-functioning window into the past, and as a high-fidelity
viewer of data from the past.
> 
> What I mean is this: My son is only 9 months old. If I want to, say, show
him when he is in college (in 2031) what I was working on when I was in
college (in 1998), Einstein is going to be the only way to do it (and
presumably, at that point in time, I will also need an OS X emulator or
something like that on which to run Einstein). 
> 
> For certain kinds of data -- data like that of our old Newtons, whose
native format or platform was ahead of its time, or different, to the extent
that there were no contemporary analogues to convert it to when the platform
reached senescence -- emulators will be the only way to really maintain the
ability to see that data in something close to its original form.
> 
> So I love -- LOVE! -- that Einstein is so awesome and works so well. Mad
props to everybody involved. It's incredible.
> 
> But, I am seriously BUMMED that my own seminal work for Newton, Dash
Board, doesn't support screen resolutions other than the MP2x00's 320x480.
Because in the age of Einstein, where your Newton screen can be any size you
want, that's just lame.
> 
> So, although I don't expect to have much time to devote to it
(aforementioned 9-month-old baby and so forth), my hope is to add that one
single feature: support for arbitrary screen size.
> 
> And also to fix the few bugs that were caused by exhuming Dash Board from
its grave and re-animating it. (But that part will be easy.)
> 
> Thanks for reading!
> --
> Mason Mark
> mason at fivespeed.com
> 
> 
> [1]: Dash Board on GitHub:
https://github.com/masonmark/Dash-Board-for-Newton-OS
> 
> [2]: my blog post about me, me, me, me, me, and a bit also about Dash
Board: http://masonmark.com/dash-board-revisited/
> 
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