Designed to provide the convenience of online automated shopping with the traditional feel of good old-fashioned catalog browsing, Developer Depot also features: an new 800 number (800-MACDEV-1) for US and Canadian customers, customer satisfaction guaranteed, lowest price guaranteed, and world renowned customer service.
The Association of Independant Macintosh Engineers and Developers
The AIMED will communicate Mac market information to the press, direct developer concerns to Apple and inform members of new market opportunities.
Timely business and marketing information for Apple developers.
The Apple Directions Express listserver provides a regular digest of up-to-the-minute news and information from Apple, in the most timely fashion possible. Delivered electronically via the Internet right to your desktop,Apple Directions Express is your glimpse inside Apple, to help you keep up with what Apple is doing so you can plot your next business move. Too busy to separate fact from rumor in everything that gets written about Apple? Apple Directions Express--prepared by the editors of Apple Directions, Apple's developer business report--will give you the official word from Apple Computer,Inc.
Every other week--more often than that when there's hot news--we'll send you a brief summary of the very latest about new Apple products, pertinent market research and customer data, Apple co-marketing initiatives, market opportunities, competitive analysis, and other news from Apple that's important to your business and the personal computer industry. Using electronic pointers to World Wide Web sites, Apple Directions Express will be your introduction to the wealth of information available for industry executives, product managers,and others to follow marketing and business developments within Apple Computer,Inc. as they relate to Apple developers.
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Apple Developer Relations is very happy to announce that we are reinstating what was once an extremely popular program: The "It Shipped" Program. For those of you who are not familiar with this program or how it works, here's some information.
The It Shipped program provides an opportunity for you, our product developers and publishers, to make sure the widest possible audience is aware of your success. We want to know whenever you ship a Macintosh product and share this information with a wide audience.
Amongst the vehicles we use to promote your product are a monthly listing of the latest shipping Macintosh products in the Apple Directions publication, as well as a listing on the web.
For more information on how the program works and what you have to do to participate. You can address them to aruns@applelink.apple.com.
The 3DMF specification and the cross-platform parser are available immediately from theQuickDraw 3Dhome page.
3DMF technology is fully cross-platform across MacOS, Microsoft Windows, and UNIX to enable 3D graphics exchange between applications and operating systems with no loss of image quality or information.
3DMF is the file format supported by QuickDraw 3D--Apple's new cross-platform 3D API (Application Programming Interface) for Power Macintosh (available immediately) and Microsoft Windows (Spring 1996 general availability). MacUser, the leading monthly magazine for business buyers of Apple Macintosh computers, just selected QuickDraw 3D as the 1995 Editor's Choice Award winner for Breakthrough Technology of the Year.
3DMF represents a standardized format for displaying and saving 3D models - a standard that preserves not only the object's geometry and color, but also its shading, lighting and texture, as well as its relative 'position' in 3D space. Without 3DMF, 3D models must be converted between software packages, frequently resulting in the loss of visual information and data.
Equally important, 3DMF allows unique attributes to be saved and exchanged among applications. For example, if a program uses a custom effect to create a 3D object, it would normally be impossible to view that file in any other program without the loss of that information. Saved as a 3DMF file, this same object would retain its unique, application-specific attributes in any other program or browser, despite their not supporting this feature directly.
E-Mail: escher.dev@applelink.apple.com
JavaSoft announces availability of the Java Developer's Kit 1.0, Beta 1 Release for Macintosh.
The JDK includes a Java Applet viewer and a Java Compiler, as well as sample Java applets and API documentation for programmers. Though these materials are preliminary, there's more than enough here for programmers to start experimenting with Sun's Virtual Machine (VM) implementation. One important fact: the materials run on Power Macs and 68K Macs with a 68030 processor or better, putting to rest persistent rumors that Sun's VM would only be available for Power Macs. The binhexed version of the JDK weighs in at about 3MB.
Discover Programming with Java byMetroWerks
E-Mail: Hillel COOPERMAN
QuickCode Pro by Natural Intelligence, Inc., the Applet Development Environment for Java, includes a hierarchical project window, powerful source code editor, interpreter, Java compiler, debugger, and speedy runtime engine.
E-Mail: Hillel COOPERMAN
Symantec Cafe is the first Macintosh development environment that uses the standard Sun Java virtual machine and compiler to let you quickly produce Java. Cafe gives customers who own Symantec C++ for Power Macintosh a graphical, easy to use Java development environment. Cafe integrates Sun's Java Development Kit (JDK 1.0) into Symantec's state of the art development environment for the Power Macintosh so you get the easy to use Java language in a highly productive development environment.
A web site by Seapine Software, Inc.dedicated to providing information about Macintosh quality control software and services.
Mac QC Links is the one page on the web that Macintosh developers can read to stay up to date on the tools available for testing and debugging Macintosh software.
Companies who provide testing tools and services to the Macintosh developer community should submit their product and service descriptions to Mac QC. Webmasters listing Macintosh developer products and sites are encouraged to add a link to the Mac QC Links site.
Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the availability and shipment of the latest version of the Newton Toolkit (NTK 1.6) for the Mac OS, and a set of application programming interfaces (APIs), the Desktop Integration Libraries (DILs), for both the Mac OS and Windows operating systems. These tools fully support Newton 2.0, the latest version of the Newton operating system, and enable developers to create custom solutions and products for the Newton platform that easily integrate with existing applications and data on both Mac OS and Windows-based personal computers. In addition, Apple announced that a prerelease version of Newton Toolkit for Windows is currently being distributed to selected developers.
E-Mail: OpenDoc to receive a free developer CD by mail.
Developers can also download additional development tools from Apple, Metrowerks and Symantec, including a pre-release version of Apple's OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF) for Mac OS.
Oracle Media Objects (OMO), the interactive multimedia authoring tool for the Mac, Windows, NC, and Set-top box platforms, is available for free downloading from the web at Oracle. Use the trial version for 90 days and let us know what you think. You can purchase it directly from the Oracle Store for USD$99 as well.
Oracle Media Objects 1.0.5 adds a Windows 3.1 development environment to the already available Macintosh development environment. Players for Macintosh & Windows are included with both development versions. OMO is fun and easy to use and gets your applications up and running quickly. Developers can easily extend the functionality of OMO using the MOX (Media Objects eXtensions) interface. The OMO metaphor is based on the card and stack, just like HyperCard.
Oracle actively encourages multimedia development for the next generation of systems using OMO.
March 18, 1996 - Seapine Software, Inc. today announced the release of TestTrack, a software quality productivity tool for Macintosh developers.
TestTrack eliminates the need to build custom database solutions for tracking bugs and enhancement requests, while adding valuable communication and work-flow features not found in custom database solutions.
TestTrack is ideal for any software developer who needs to track bugs, change requests and enhancement requests. Software development teams benefit additionally from TestTrack's notification and routing features, which guarantee communication between team members and ensure efficient work flow.
In addition to tracking bugs and enhancement requests, TestTrack tracks test configurations and team members. By tracking test configurations, you can match problem patterns related to specific computer software and hardware setups. By tracking team members, you can monitor work loads at a glance, and determine which team members are overloaded and re-assign some of their work to other members.