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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MATHEMAESTHETICS ANNOUNCES RESORCERER 2.4.1 FOR MAC OS X AND MAC OS 9
Maintenance update provides bug fixes and new features to Mac OS X data and
resource file editing tool.
Boulder, Colorado -- October 15, 2002 -- Mathemaesthetics, Inc. announced
today a long-awaited update to its flagship product, Resorcerer 2.4, the
award-winning, Mac programming professional's data and resource file editor
for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.
Primarily a bug fix maintenance release, Resorcerer 2.4.1 has several new
features that include:
* Macintosh two-byte language display in the Hex Editor,
alongside its existing simultaneous Unicode, Hex,
Binary, ASCII, and PowerPC instruction columns;
* Code Editor disassembly of all AltiVec(tm) PowerPC
instructions to both English and symbolic assembler;
* A completely rewritten, Carbonized, color cursor editor
for Mac OS 'crsr' resources.
In addition, many minor enhancements have been made in various areas of
Resorcerer, including AppleScript support, opening of alias files, better
screen-capturing in the pixel editors, persistent preferences, data type
etymology display, pasting hex data from C and Rez source files, menu and
dialog editing, etc.. There are also several dozen bug fixes for new, old,
and a few very old bugs.
"The new Altivec-to-English disassembler is unique to the industry," says
Doug McKenna, developer of Resorcerer. "Like most programmers, I find
standard PowerPC disassembly output daunting: my eyes just glaze over." The
technology takes a standard 32-bit machine code instruction and outputs a
specially tailored English paragraph explaining what happens to the
instruction's register or immediate arguments. "This is one of those
features that most programmers never need up until the time they really
need it in order to understand quickly what some low-level machine
instruction is really doing," says McKenna. "It's also a great learning
tool for understanding Apple's Velocity Engine(tm) (or IBM's VMX)
capabilities for anyone creating very-high-performance software on the Mac
or other Power-architecture machine."
Examples of the disassembler's English output for PowerPC and AltiVec
instructions are on the company's website at
http://www.mathemaesthetics.com/PowerPCEnglishSample.html
Resorcerer is shipped in both a Classic/Mac OS 9 version, as well as a
Carbonized version for running natively under Mac OS X ("Jaguar" 10.2.1 and
earlier).
The data editing application has also been released as the first native Mac
OS X resource and data fork editor for the Japanese market. "Two-byte
display for existing files in addition to Unicode for new files was
probably our single-most-requested feature for the Japanese version of
Resorcerer," according to Richard Northcott, president of Enfour Media,
Ltd., which has localized and distributes Resorcerer in Japan. "Developers
in Japan are welcoming this new version as one of their most important
tools."
Availability and Pricing
Free updaters for either Carbon or Classic versions of the US version of
Resorcerer 2.4 are available to all current Resorcerer 2.4 customers. The
updaters are downloadable from the company's website, at
http://www.mathemaesthetics.com/UpdateInfo241.html
Free demo versions of Resorcerer 2.4.1 are also available on the company's
website, at
http://www.mathemaesthetics.com/DemoPage.html
Resorcerer 2.4 is available on CD for online purchase at Mathemaesthetics,
Inc's website, as well as through resellers and MacTech's Developer Depot.
Pricing is US $256/copy, with quantity, reseller, educational, and student
discounts. The CD includes both Mac OS 9 ("Classic") versions and Mac OS X
("Carbon") versions of the application.
Users of previous versions of Resorcerer can upgrade directly from
Mathemaesthetics. Upgrades are US $128/copy.
About Resorcerer(r)
Resorcerer is the premiere professional resource and data fork editing tool
for the Mac OS developer and localizer. Winner of a MacUser Eddy award, the
application is filled with a wealth of binary data editing tools, ranging
from Mac OS X icon editing to PowerPC disassembly to interface layout, etc.
With knowledge of hundreds of standard Macintosh software data formats,
Resorcerer remains one of the most important tools a Mac developer needs to
"get under the hood" of any file, whether a resource file or a plain data
fork or Unix file. The application is AppleScript-able, with an object
hierarchy down to each individual bit in a file, and supports a non-modal,
high-performance, generic file system browser for finding and opening any
file or folder on any disk. Several useful utilites, such as screen
magnifier, complete Unicode browser, and a 64-bit Value Converter, are
included with the application.
About Mathemaesthetics, Inc.
Mathemaesthetics, Inc. has been a personal computer software developer and
Macintosh developer tool provider for 15 years, specializing in interactive
data structure editors that enhance programmer productivity.
Mathemaesthetics (math + art = software) has developed taxonomic database
and music notation software, and also does research in the area of fractal
tile designs. Additionally, the company has been in the forefront of the
legal fight against junk fax spam.
For further information, please contact us at:
web: http://www.mathemaesthetics.com
mail: "resorcerer" care of our domain name
voice: (303) 440-0707
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