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Latest version of pcalc7/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m legally not allowed to tell you exactly how much of the $49.99 we’re getting, but think of a very small number. Will we make more money over the next two weeks than we would have otherwise? Am I damaging future sales of our apps? That remains to be seen. You can see the total number of sales of the bundle on the MUPromo page. Path Finder is another veteran app in the bundle, and I know lots of people use that in combination with DragThing. Plus I’ve heard good things about Socialite and GarageSale, and many of the others. I’ve been looking forward to the point-and-click adventure game Machinarium for ages, and I didn’t realise it was already out. It’s a good bundle of apps – I fancy getting a few of them myself. And likewise, PCalc on the Mac has always been a good promotional tool for selling copies of PCalc on the iPhone. Sales of DragThing have slowed a little bit of late since I’ve only done fairly minor updates recently, and I figured it couldn’t hurt to get it back into the public eye. What they offered per-bundle-sold wasn’t completely terrible – I’ve been offered a lot worse. Annoyingly, he was actually right.Ī couple of months ago, the MacUpdate people contacted me and asked if I wanted to be part of their winter bundle. It was mocked at the time by the ever-tactful John Casasanta of MacHeist, who basically said that without a substantial marketing budget, it was doomed. Sales of the bundle were small, not down to the quality of the applications or people involved, but partially because it was going up against the much stronger MacUpdate bundle at the time, and partially because – in my opinion – it didn’t compare particularly favourably to the slick marketing efforts of MacHeist and MacUpdate. In practice however, it was something of a disappointment. The idea was a great one – this was a bundle by developers, for developers, with an equal split of the profits for all who took part. Way back in June, we took part in the inaugural bundle. Is he a just a big capitalist sellout after all?” Imagine my surprise when I saw this offer in my inbox this morning – both DragThing and PCalc are part of the new MacUpdate Promo Winter Bundle. He had that spat with John Casasanta and everything. “So”, I hear you thinking, “I remember James being very anti-software bundle earlier this year. Author James Thomson Posted on DecemDecemFormat Image Categories Development Tags pcalc, the inexorable progress of time 20 Comments on A long time ago, in a Glasgow far, far, away… Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better! So it seems entirely feasible that PCalc will make it to 30, as I hopefully make it to (almost) 50.Īnd yes, I will port it to the AR glasses and the car. It doesn’t seem all that long to me since the 20th anniversary. If you want to read up the origin story in detail, you can do so here. Thanks to everybody who has bought a copy over the years and made that possible, or put something into the tip jar. In a way, it’s the surprisingly devoted child that’s supporting me in my old age. I wrote one of the most excessive About screens in recorded history.īut I keep coming back to PCalc. I went to work for Apple on the Finder and Dock. I wrote DragThing, which was the go to app launcher on the Mac for a good decade. I haven’t been writing PCalc constantly for 25 years. Some of that code still runs today, deep at the heart of the machine.ĭon’t get me wrong. I started writing in the summer of 1992 and it took me around six months to get it into a state where I was happy to show it to the world. I sent an email to the Info-Mac archive moderators that evening, and it turned up on FTP mirror sites around the world a few days later. ![]() PCalc is a neat simulation of a programmable scientific calculator. Yet, that is how long it has been since PCalc 1.0 was released.Įnclosed is a binhex file containing a submission for your archives. A quarter of a century sounds even longer. ![]()
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