October 3, 1999 

After receiving this rather disturbing news and announcement from a fellow
friend and past A2 supporter, I felt the need to make it available for all A2
users to read and comment on.

Your feedback and thoughts on the following are invited.

That's All Folks !

MacProber
GS WorldView Editor

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 Important SheppyWare Announcement
 
 For various reasons, I have decided to suspend development on all my
 Apple II projects indefinitely.  I'm tired and it's just not worth the
 effort anymore.
 
 I still intend to release WebWorks GS as a downloadable package next
 month, and this announcement doesn't affect the prices of any of my
 products already available.
 
 I will complete the final two articles in the GSoft BASIC series for
 Juiced.GS (bringing the total number up to six; the fourth is coming in
 the next issue, and is already finished).  And unless Byte Works cancels
 it, I will complete the work I'm doing for them.
 
 The "Shadowlands", "DiskMaker", and "ImageMaker Deluxe" projects are
 postponed indefinitely.
 
 I'm not saying I'm leaving the Apple II world forever, I'm just taking a
 break to see if my life gets any easier without the hassles from the
 select few.
 
 The percentage of Apple II users that treat Apple II programmers like
 dirt has risen to the point where I can't bring myself to tolerate it
 anymore.  I'm just not having enough fun writing the code to put up with
 the amount of cruel and unwarranted remarks I get from just a handful of
 people.
 
 Consider: there are about 50 people that buy my products and are
 appreciative (and I love them all for it!).  Then there are around 5
 people that are really unpleasant and occasionally abusive.  That ratio
 (1 in 10!) is way too high for this to be worth it anymore.
 
 If I find that I just can't live without writing Apple II code, I'll pick
 it back up, and maybe that'll happen, but as it stands, I just don't feel
 like it's worth my trouble.
 
 I do plan to continue to hang around Delphi's A2, supporting my existing
 software and participating in the friendly chats that go on there.
 
 My congratulations to Dr. Tom and his friends for their victory.  Enjoy.
 
 My heartfelt thanks to all of you that have been supportive for all these
 years.  I consider you all to be my friends.
 
 
 -- 
 Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd
 http://www.sheppyware.net
 Creating software for everyone!
 
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