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OK, I found my QuickDex for the 68k Mac and I created a disk image. I would be glad to email the disk image to anyone who would like to post it to somewhere it could be downloaded from the Web. It's a 1.4MB file.

If someone can upload it on a http server, you could ftp2share it.

Has anyone gotten any of Gene Cash's applications to work under OS2008?

OK, I've uploaded a disk image of QuickDex for the 68k Mac to RapidShare. I named the file "qd". I'm not sure what the proper extension is, maybe .dsk

EDIT: I had the wrong file here; go to Post #23.

What do you think about personal-wiki projects?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki

Zim or WikiPad are nice for this tasks.

I want to start similar project but probably i have no enough free time to finish it in month or two =(

bls, a personal-wiki is closer than anything else I've seen. Thanks for the idea.

I installed WikiPad in my Windows laptop, and it does a lot of what I would want. It's cumbersome compared to QuickDex. Worst of all, for a NIT it takes too much screen real estate. The Find Window is separate from the Text Data Window (that is, the main window in which you store your information), making it hard to use in a small tablet. Also, I have no idea how to make it run in Maemo, though apparently it's Python-based.

I couldn't try Zim as there's no Windows or Mac version and I don't have a Linux box.

But, bls, I'm planning on using a Nokia Internet Tablet for a long time, so if it hasn't happened sooner, I'd be ecstatic to see a simple freeform database even a few months from now!

I'd like to add my 2cents. I've been programming since 1973 on many different platforms, and in terms of versatility vs. size, I'd go with the dBase language and platform (variants: xbase, clipper, foxpro). With 64K of memory, once could build full featured, screen oriented database programs, of pretty much any type.

Full accounting systems could be programmed to fit on a 1/2 meg floppy. Amazing. I would love to see it on the ITT (as I'm sure a bunch of other 40+ year old programmers).

HyperCard is an amazing program. I still use it on OS 9. It is a general purpose program development environment. In addition to a simple database, it is possible to easily create complex and sophisticated programs that look nothing like a database. SuperCard is a clone still available on the Mac. Also MetaCard is a similar program that runs across many different environments including Linux. MetaCard was recently repackaged as Revolution. See: http://www.runrev.com/

An XXXCard program would empower almost any N8xx user in the same way that the BASIC that came with MSDOS did. I don't believe that it is in any way an exaggeration to say that such a program would cause an explosion in s/w and in N8xx users.

Gerald:

(I sent you an email earlier - If you did not get it then can you pm me with an email address where I can reach you).

What exactly is this file? Is it an archive of some sort? How did you make it?

I have got MinivMac running on Windows. This is an emulator of a Mac Plus running System 6.0.8. With some futzing about I believe that I can get it to run System 7.5.5.

I have hardly ever used a Mac so I am poking in the dark, but this little emulator runs MacDraw OK.

Is this version of qd going to run on one of these systems? Or am I wasting my time trying to get it to run?

Don.

Note: This is the same emulator (MinivMac)that Khertan said that he got working on a tablet.

The file of the 68k Mac QuickDex is an image file of a diskette. I should have added the extension ".img" to it. So after you download it, I suggest you append that and make it qd.img (It's possible that it's ".dmg" but I don't think so.)

I made it by taking a Mac diskette and putting it into a PC that was running Gemulator Explorer: http://tinyurl.com/yr4tdy and http://www.emulators.com/explorer.htm

Once you have it loaded onto a Mac, I think you should be able to use it just like a diskette.

QuickDex was able to run on System 6 as what Apple called a "Desk Accessory" -- which meant that it could reside 100% in RAM -- and thereby be able to run simultaneously with any program (even though the Mac system wasn't multi-tasking until System 7 for full applications). It also ran fine on System 7.

The disk image contains a folder called QuickDex, and inside that is a ReadMe, an Installer, and another folder with the program and some data files.

I'm going to see about running Mini vMac on my PC. Let me know if you have any problems with the QuickDex disk image once you add the extension.