PC Gamer, best 50 classic games issue?

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jan 9 12:46:55 2002

>! From: Mike Ford [mailto:mikeford_at_socal.rr.com]
>!
>!
>! A few years ago just at the end of the BBS era, a new little software
>! company came out with a Terminal package for the Mac that
>! used their own
>! serial port driver. I can't remember the name, but they
>! buffered the port
>! with some fairly nice code that ran I think during the "VBL"
>! of the video
>! interrupt. Not only was the throughput great, no gliches, but
>! the big demo
>! thing was to format a floppy during the downloading of a file. Market
>! window was bad though, and I don't think they lasted even a year.
>
> Does anyone remember what this software package name is? Sounds like
>something I'd like to have & use...

I think it was called something like Snap, but it died so fast and had some
kind of copy protection on the floppy, that it may be very hard to find.
Received on Wed Jan 09 2002 - 12:46:55 GMT