Once again, here we are - the winter of our disc content.  <groan>  This sixth
incarnation of the Developer CD (or the fifth _develop_ CD, depending on where
you get it) contains more Apple II stuff than ever before.  Just a few of the
new things you'll find on here (in glorious optical glory):

*   HyperCard IIgs - the release version
*   HyperCard goodies not available anywhere else, including sample XCMD
    source (in APW and MPW IIgs formats!), interface files (more accurate than
    the HyperCard IIgs Script Language Guide's Appendix A!) and HyperMover,
    the two-stack set that transfers Macintosh HyperCard stacks to the Apple
    IIgs.  (And yes, we did remember to put both stacks on the CD this time.)
*   Apple IIgs System Software 5.0.4 - the release version
*   GSBug version 1.5b11
*   Apple II Technical Notes and File Type Notes through January 1991
*   Text and sample source code from _develop_ #5
*   The Kula Magazine index, which Apple has licensed to bring you a reference
    of all kinds of great Apple II articles and journals in one convenient
    place

One thing that was previously on the CD that is now gone is older versions of
the Apple IIgs System Software.  We've removed all of the older versions
except those recommended for the various memory configurations:  3.2 (for
256K), 5.0.2 (for 512K through 1 MB) and 5.0.4 (for 1 MB or greater).  If
someone absolutely positively is unable to purchase more memory, he or she
should at least use the last system software released for his or her
configuration.

We also removed all the resource forks from the Technical, File Type and Human
Interface Notes (all of which were originally present for the traditional No
Good Reason) and got rid of the corrupted files in _develop_ #4 and the IIc
Plus Guided Tour, at least as far as we can tell.

Comments, questions and suggestions for the Developer CD series are always
welcome.  You can write to us at:

The Developer CD Series - Cool Guys and Gals
Apple Computer, Inc.
20525 Mariani Ave. MS: 75-3B
Cupertino, CA  95014

or you can AppleLink us at DEV.CD.

And there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that if you decompress this file
with the proper decompession algorithm, you obtain the source code to FID, the
DOS 3.3 File Utility.  However, if you're that interested in FID or that bored
you're certainly welcome to try anyway.

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MATT DEATHERAGE is a DTS engineer who moonlights with the Apple II content of
the Developer CD series.  He seems to be getting better at it, which is not
really very comforting because that means they'll keep asking him to do it.
He did recently get his piano tuned, which makes him a happer person in
general.
