Greetings! “Old” developer here, but new fan of the REALbasic (Xojo) family of products.
So, for various technical reasons, I got VERY excited after trying out multiple versions of REALbasic and seeing:
- How incredibly QUICK and EASY it is to slap together a GOOD app;
- How painlessly-CROSSPLATFORM it is, both with legacy AND modern targets.
It honestly inspired me so hard that I feel like doing a REALbasic / Xojo-based startup (although I’m holding back for now, since being a CEO is obviously quite time-consuming), and my fellow workmates started telling me they suspect I am getting paid for promoting RB or that I got secretly hired by Xojo Inc… lol
Anyways… As a hobby, I’m also a software archivist. So I was wondering if anyone here (Geoff?) still has lying around somewhere, perhaps in an old HFS Standard floppy or external HDD in some ancient Power Mac, a copy of Andrew’s OG, final release of CrossBasic, the original shareware release before it went commercial under the name “REALbasic”.
The most I was able to find “out there in the wild” was some developer preview from 1997, apparently called version “DR1” or, more precisely, “DR1 Release 7”, but I’m very confident some further releases had also been made all the way up until 1998 (CrossBasic version 1.0?).
Does anyone still have that “latest” release of the shareware version? One really neat thing is that it targets Java aside from 68k/PPC apps… REALLY sweet. Seems to “bind” to Java’s AWT GUI API, with JDK 1.0.2 from what I could tell from the DR1r7 version.
Anyways, any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you in advance!
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