One of the benefits of electronic software distribution is that we can regularly provide our customers with new versions of our software.

These new versions may include feature enhancements and/or bug fixes.

This note is to summarize our version definitions.

General
Release

This is what some companies call a "Golden Master". It is a final stable release for a specific feature set. This release is a the most stable version when it comes to having most, if not all, bugs worked out. It may not, however, have all the features desired.

Candidate Version

Customers continually ask us to include new features into our products. We do our best to accommodate these requests. As we do, we introduce new "Candidate" versions (hence the "c" in the version names).

Candidate versions are normally very stable. They may, however, still need some testing to ensure that no major bugs are present. We strongly depend on users to provide us with feedback when we release a candidate version. Hence we often recommend that users run our candidate software. When programming errors are found in a candidate version, we do our best to fix such errors as soon as we can. Most often in a day or two.

PowerMac Version

This version of the software has been developed to work exclusively on Macintosh computers with PowerPC (PPC) CPUs.

This includes machines as old as the 6100, 7100, and 8100 series and as recent as the G4 Macintosh models offered today.

68K
Version

This version of the software has been developed to work exclusively on Macintosh computers with older 68K CPUs.

This includes machines as old as the IIci and SE30, and as recent as the Quadra 880 and 660 AV.

Classic Mac OS
Version

This version of the software has been developed to work on the classic Mac OS System (v7.6 through 9.x)

Mac OS X
Version

This version of the software has been developed to work on Mac OS X.