[Blindapple] Repost: The Raised Dot CD

[Jayson Smith]

Hi all,


Some of you who are newer to the list may not have seen this, so I'm 
posting it here again. This is a real treasure trove!


Hi all,

As some of you old timers may remember, back in 2004, I contacted David 
Holladay, requesting permission to distribute BEX 3.0 and Braille Edit 
2.45 on
my website. He gave me permission, and sent me a CD-ROM containing lots 
of material relating to BEX, Braille Edit, other Raised Dot products, 
etc. Unfortunately,
this version of the CD also contained other material he didn't want 
distributed, so I was unable to make it available.

Recently, I contacted David again, to ask a few questions about 
Textalker, BEX, etc. He indicated he had an updated CD-ROM he could send 
me, and I requested
it. I just received permission to make this version available for download.

So what's on the CD? Versions 2.1, 2.2, and 3.1 of BEX. Version 3.0 
seems to be missing. Lots of versions of Braille Edit. Several other 
Raised Dot products.
Documentation for all this stuff. Source code for much of this stuff. A 
document giving some background on how BEX is programmed. All the Raised 
Dot newsletters.
And, as they say, much, much more!

To download this treasure trove, visit
http://www.bluegrasspals.com/blindapple/rdccd.zip

I would like to make clear, as David made clear to me, that all the 
Raised Dot material is still copyright by David Holladay, but he's given 
me permission
to distribute it. The first disk of BEX source code contains the program 
to properly copy protect a BEX disk, and the programming documentation 
file describes
how the copy protection works.

Enjoy!
Jayson