What effect do you think having the serial number cracked had on You can buy bonus points and they will be added to your product’s It would be hard for them to be objective in such a case. On Tucows you need to pay them to review your software? Seems like I must admit that I’m very unfamiliar with Tucows (I haven’t used Wrestling since eventually I wanted my money back and they refused. Run on the machine he wanted to test it on. Then I bought an InDepth review in the hope this They refused to list Pepper it wasn’t good enough. To a new OS, they are suddenly in the market for all sorts of new
Thought the market opportunity was on Mac OS X. I didn’t mean to imply that it wasn’t good on Mac OS 9, only that I I always used it on Mac OS 9 and it is a very good editor on that Require MPW ToolServer, whereas BBEdit works with the MacPerlĪpplication (which is much easier to install than MPW). For one thing, on Mac OS 9, Pepper’s Perl filters I really thought Pepper appealed more toward Mac Is a Mac-only technology and I don’t like to be locked in.ĭo you think most of Pepper’s users are using Mac OS X?
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And then,Īlthough I did have the Mac OS X betas at the time, they were not very useable.Īnd I simply don’t like Cocoa and would never program in it, since it PowerPlant to replace the BeOS API was obvious (in my eyes). First of all, Pe was already written in C++ and so the choice for
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The old Mac OS, and making Pepper only for Mac OS X? Did you ever consider dropping support for The first public beta of Mac OS X, and only 8 months before the Pepper 3.0 debuted for the Mac in July 2000, only a few months before Tucows, and Pepper didn’t run on Jaguar and then I gave up. Number was cracked, I got my first fraud cases, had a quarrel with The negative feedback spread around on VersionTracker there were manyĬomplaints, and this influenced sales. Internally and were not at all related to the platform switch. However, most of the performance problems were related to fixing bugs Performance issues and people blamed it on going cross platform. Mac OS and Windows, and a Linux version was released a couple of monthsīut Pepper 4.0 was not well received. It took me nine months to finish Pepper 4.0 for Vodde, who helped me get up to speed on Windows (I had never programmedįor that OS before). PowerPlant for the first Mac OS port and now I started replacing The code was already quite portableīut now I separated Pepper’s code from the more generic code. įrankly, I was very disappointed by Mac OS X and so Iĭecided to do a port to Windows. Pepper started life as Pe on BeOSĪnd was ported to Mac OS.
What happened? It seems like an awful lot of work to abandon. In fact, it is no longer evenĪvailable for download, except for registered users. You are no longer taking orders for Pepper, the text editor you’veīeen working on for several years. Hekkelman via email - who better to interview the author of a Mac text editor than someone who used to work for Bare Bones Software? Two weeks ago, the 36-year-old resident of the Netherlands called it quits, and announced that he was no longer developing or selling Pepper. Maarten Hekkelman is the programmer behind Pepper, a Macintosh programmer’s text editor that started life on BeOS as Pe. Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman Friday, 30 August 2002
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