Hey folks.

I also have a perpetual list of Newton software that I'd like to write, if I
could only find the time.

On and off it has included the following:

-TV Listing Service / application. I actually got pretty far on this one. I
was grabbing tv listing data on a Linux box using XMLTV, had a program that
parsed the XML and output framed NS data which I could then compile into a
package that, when installed, would populate a FilePad DB on the Newton with
the listings information. Phew! The problems though were:

-The amount of data was pretty big for the Newton to handle, even only a
week's worth of 30 or 40 channels

-I wrote the XML parsing in VB, because at the time it was the only XML
parser API I knew.

-NTK for Windows isn't scriptable, so compiling the package was a manual
process

-I had a hard drive crash and lost my VB code, and then XMLTV changed and you
can't get TV listing data for free anymore.

-Once I got the data on the Newton though, using FilePad as an interface was
pretty nice.

-Waba stuff. This I'm getting back into, Java was my first language (well,
not counting BASIC) and so it comes quite naturally and I'm not scared of
having to position everything manually :) I had been working on SameGame for
Waba, adding back some of the features that Sean Luke had removed from the
port like scoring. I dusted it off recently and hope to make it a 1.0 release
soon. Need to fix up the high scores list which uses a Waba Catalog.

I also wrote a program to keep score in Scrabble in Waba, and I'd like to
write a Shisen-Sho game (a tile matching game, google it for the details.)

Anyone else here using Waba for Newton development?

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