Credits

Design & Implementation

The bulk of CiderPress was written by Andy McFadden (www.fadden.com) through FaddenSoft, LLC. Andy has been writing ShrinkIt-related utilities since 1989, including "NuLib" and "NuLib2", and was the author of Westcode Software's HardPressed(tm) compression software for the Apple IIgs.

This software was written entirely in C++, using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and the MFC user interface library, and requires over 100,000 lines of commented source code. The major components are:

CiderPress application - 43K lines of code

MDC application - 1.5K lines

File converter library (used by CiderPress app only) - 15.5K lines

DiskImg DLL (used by CiderPress and MDC) - 42K lines

Common functions (used by CiderPress and MDC) - 7K lines

External DLLs (NufxLib, zlib, libhfs, wnaspi32, plus Windows msvcrt, mfc42, etc.)

ShrinkIt and the NuFX archive format were developed by Andy Nicholas. The Binary II format was developed by Gary Little.

My understanding of Integer BASIC and the S-C Assembler file format was dramatically improved by comments in Paul Schlyter's "A2FID.C".

Many thanks to Apple Computer and especially Apple's DTS group for creating or encouraging the creation of Apple II File Type Notes. These saved me many hours of reverse-engineering.

Many aspects of the CiderPress UI were inspired by WinZip (www.winzip.com).

Apple /// Business Basic support by David Schmidt.

Testing

v1.0 beta test volunteers:

Bryan "I found a bug" Carter <bryan@gamezero.com>

Tom "I have a suggestion" Phelps

Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd (www.syndicomm.com)

v2.0 beta test volunteers:

Rich Dreher

Bill Garber

Glenn Jones

Andrew Molloy

Allan Sutton

My thanks also go to Dave Touvell and Jeff Fink for helping track down some bugs in v2.4.

Other Included Software

Access to NuFX (ShrinkIt) archives is provided by the NufxLib library ("nufxlib2.dll"). NufxLib is an open-source project, available for download from www.nulib.com.

Access to .gz files, and support for the "deflate" algorithm in NuFX archives, is provided by the Zlib library ("zlib.dll"). Zlib is free; visit the web site at www.zlib.org.

Access to HFS volumes is provided by "libhfs", part of the "hfsutils" package written by Robert Leslie. hfsutils is available from http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/.

The install/uninstall program was created with DeployMaster (www.deploymaster.com).

NList.Data is part of the Nifty List desk accessory, written by Dave Lyons. The file was included with the permission of the author.

Legal Notices

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