MOBIUS DRAWKIT EEP !! ===================== I am pleased to announce that the Early Experience Programme(EEP) for Mobius DrawKit is now available. If you are receiving this, you are one of the people that requested information on one or more Mobius products. Thanks for waiting patiently. Note that there are some questions at the end for those of you interested in Business Builder and WinG SpriteKit. The DrawKit EEP will be distributed electronically via CompuServe as a binary zip or a UUEncoded zip as a text file via the Internet. If you decide to purchase the EEP, you will receive the DrawKit component DCU's, sample programs and the DrawKit help file. You will also be sent regular updates as and when they become available and the final shipping product free of charge. You will also receive source code with the final product, or perhaps even before :-) The price for the EEP is US$99 or UK £70. Unfortunately, we can't take credit card orders because we've not yet jumped through all the hoops and filled in all the forms and seen all the people and been processed etc. etc. that the card suppliers require for a credit card merchant account. So for now payment should be made by check - US$ checks will do nicely. Alternatively, you can pay by international money order if you really want to. There is a 30-day money back guarantee - no questions asked. Well, except maybe who to make out the return check to. Support will be by direct e- mail to my CompuServe address: 100140,2420 or my partner Ian Marshall: 73563,533. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail these to me. I know you're going to ask about a demo and we are uploading one to CIS. If you're desperate to see it now, I can mail it to you. Otherwise, I look forward to your orders. Please send these to the address below. Mobius Ltd. 10 Coates Gardens Edinburgh EH12 5LB United Kingdom Tel: +44 131 467 3267. Some Questions for YOU ====================== Now that we have DrawKit out the door, our attention is going to turn to Business Builder and WinG SpriteKit. Both are still incomplete but I have been asked by many people for an early version. I would like to ask for some feedback on this. Currently Business Builder has several tables coded, including Customer, Supplier, Sales & Purchase Orders, Sales & Purchase Invoices, Staff, Inventory, Sales Tax. The experts are not yet finished but I would consider releasing the product with sample forms to let you evaluate and test it. You can of course create your own forms and reports using the tables without any problem and without writing code. What do you all think? By the time you reply, the form expert will probably be able to generate several of the forms but you can get these as sample forms anyway. The state of play with WinG SpriteKit is that the WinG API interface is done, the WinGCanvas is done, the WinGSurface component is done and the SpriteSurface and sprites work in a rudimentary way - movement including acceleration and animation are done but I have to sort out some palette problems and put in better collision support and we plan to do path and animation property editors etc. and of course a few experts. I need to add and change quite a lot to the sprite side but the basic WinG stuff works fine and, because the canvas is done, you can do more or less anything you need to with WinG. What I need to know is how many of you would like to get SpriteKit as is at the moment and receive the update to the sprites later? Thanks for your attention. Mike Scott Mobius Ltd.