mritter

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I finally got a hold of Olaf Barthel. HE HAS SOME OF MY SOURCE CODE!!!!!!!!!! He found an old archive, MarkRitterArchive.lzx, from December 1996, of some code we were working on together. Not all of it, but I think enough to back up to speed faster. I am going to ask him to check for more and I will keep searching. Thanks for all your help!

Thanks, guys. But still no luck. I even emailed my old service provider, NetExpress, last night asking if by any chance they had a backup from the 1990s. Yeah right. But I tried. Nope. They probably had a good laugh over that. I would have. The Wayback Machine says the server with my site, http://www.netexpress.net/~mritter, is down. Fingers crossed it comes back online and has my files. I doubt I posted my code on usenet. I always did it on my own site. But I am sure I did on Aminet, but no trace of it. Thanks again for the help. I posted this same message on 2 Amiga forums and no one has replied. Way to go MSFN!

Found this on Usenet: Only 32000 more posts to scroll through.....

Thanks for all the help! Oh, I haven't given up. I have put like 20+ hours into this in 3 days. Jaclaz, that is one of my programs, but not the source code. I guess I should have put in my original post that I named the LHA archives (I think) like this: OptimusView14_source.lha -and- SAKU-V1.4-OptimusView source code (.readme file) So it will be obvious if/when I come across them. I did all the .readme files with the same starting SAKU-V so I could easily search for them. I have gone through the entire Fred Fish collection, no luck. Just some of my binaries. I think the Usenet groups is my best bet. But I also agree, I doubt the attachments were saved. The search goes on......

Good idea, but no luck. It seems like the entire src directory on Aminet is either missing completely, or nearly empty when can find it. My next step is to try the old newsgroups. I didn't use them much, but not much else to look into. What sucks is that I uploaded my code on 1996; Google didn't start until 1998. Thanks.

My name is Mark Ritter. Back in the 1990s, and still today, I went by 'mritter'. During high school and college I wrote a collection of utilities I called "Swiss Army Knife Utilities". These small but useful programs were my way of teaching myself C and good coding practices. As with many of us, when the Amiga "died" we had to move on to Windows. So I sold my Amiga system, books, disks, everything. Then I bought my first Windows computer. But before I did that, I uploaded the latest versions of my programs and the source code to Aminet. I wanted people to learn from my source code. I spent 6 years programming on my Amigas. Loved every minute of it. I uploaded the programs and source code to Aminet on June 6, 1996. Now, 17 years later, I have started to program again in C for Windows. But, all I can think about is my Amiga programming days. So I started to Google my programs. I found most of them on Aminet still. But I can not find any of my source code. This is where I need your help. I am hoping someone out there has a copy of my source code, or knows of a site that has it still as a download. Google is not much help. Aminet doesn't have the source code, just my programs. I am pleading for help. I really want to find my source code so I can get started programming for the Amiga again. And take that knowledge and apply towards my Windows C programming. This means the world to me! Here is a list of my programs: Tabulator 1.2 Universal Translator 1.8 Version Handler 1.1 Screen Mug Shot 1.1 Sound Player 1.2 Printer Spooler 1.3 CxPx 1.0 Conundrum 1.3 Icon Copier 1.1 Monitor 1.7 Monitor II 1.0 Intuitive DMS 1.6 Shell Menus 3.0 Tool Type Editor 1.4 Audible Illusions 1.3 Optimus View Retina FLImation Mega Conundrum 1.0 On Aminet, do a search for 'SAKU-V' or 'Mark Ritter' or 'mritter'. Maybe you have used some of these utilities back in the day. They made on to Fred Fish disks, several magazines with disks, etc. I hope you found them useful. Please reply here or contact me directly if you have or know of any of the source code archives for my programs. Thank you from the bottom on my Commodore heart! (Vic20, C64, C64C, C128, A500, A1200, A2000, A3000)

It is probably a theme issue. It works in 8.6.3 default theme.

Myselfidem: Search through the ChangeLog.txt as to why I left the userfunctions.js include in there. I don't know if anyone has ever used it, but, just in case. I would have hoped if someone wrote some new/updated code they would share it with us. Or it could be specific to their custom situation/job/computer system. I want to thank you for all of the bug fixes and ideas you have posted. It's good to see WPI is still in demand and supported by some good people. Keep up the good work!