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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2994] continuum problem



On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:02:18PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
> What is the history of COW-lite anyway?  It seems a pretty dead client.  I
> can't find much on it, and what I find doesn't always make sense.
> On the netrek clue archive, it says:
> 	A client modified from the COW source code by Steve Sheldon
> 	specifically for Windows 3.1 users with some features added.
> 
> But I know that's wrong.  COW-lite for windoze was ported by Jonathan Shekter
> sometime in '94, from COW-lite for unix version 1.2.  As I remember, it was
> the first windoze client.  I had just started playing netrek when there was a
> thread on RGN when he asked if it was ok to release it, because windoze users
> might be too twinky to be allowed to play netrek.  
> 
> Steve, did you write COW-lite?  When?  From the name, I would guess that it
> was based on COW, but had BEEP-lite added to it.  Who wrote BEEP-lite anyway,
> and when?

 Actually it was based off of BRMH from '93, and it was a collaboration
between me and Kevin Powell.  Kevin did most of the work on that client, I
hosted the ftp site.

 Actually I believe the original intention behind the name 'COW-lite' was a
version of COW that didn't have some of the goofy features.  Unfortunately I
think instead we ended up adding a lot of goofy features like continuous
mouse, beep-lite, etc.  Although I think beep-lite was added to COW at the
same time.

 Beep-lite was written by Jeff Nelson, probably in '94.  I think at the time
the concept was that teams all playing in the same room had verbal cues that
couldn't be duplicated by at-large teams.  He thought this would help
highlight the messages.

 I have all the original source going back to version 1.0 of COWl which was
released in 11/93.  1.2 is dated 5/94.  Although Shekters windows changes
are dated 12/94, at least in my copy.

 Anyway, I'm surprised this is a problem.  I have no way of testing for it
right now though.


 After I get my DSL line installed tomorrow, I'm going to probably spend
more time on netrek and clean up this client stuff.