Software blog with announcements about Spacejock Software

Friday, September 12, 2008

Lots of new beta versions

Recently I've uploaded beta versions of Sonar 3, RMP 3, Hamtime 2, Trackaminute 2, yCopy 2, yLaunch 2, yMail 2 and yWriter 5

On the non-beta front, yGen 2 has now officially replaced yGen 1 and I recommend all users run yRead 3 instead of the original yRead 2 (Windows 98 users are stuck with yRead 1) RMP 3 is almost out of beta, and I recommend it to Vista users in particular because of the improved performance on that operating system.

Details and download links here

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Simon,

I've installed RMP3. When I try to add new event, it keeps asking for a valid date. Please advice why is that so?

Thanks,
Steven

Simon Haynes said...

What's the date format on your PC? E.g. dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy or something else?

And have you entered a date for the event?

Anonymous said...

My PC short date format is dd/mmm/yy.

The default at the "Every X days" is dd/mm/yyyy. Could this be the problem?

After I meddled with the RMP3 setting, it's okay now.

Thanks.

Anonymous said...

I downloaded the RMP3 yesterday 28/1/09. The 'Expired event' is not working i.e. nothing is showing that has expired when you press the 'expired - all' button.
Everything else appears to be fine.
Regards
JT

Andi said...

I'd like to say leave my greetings ;) I use yWriter for my novels and am a fan of your great work. At the moment, I'm on my thirn novel using your software, and it helped me ALOT on my way to the second draft (after which I used OpenOffice for the cleaning up of prose and editing).
Keep up the good work!

Best wishes from Germany,
Andi

James D. Maxon said...

Just started using yWriter 5. Nice product, but might I leave a few suggestions?

1) Have ability to alphabetize the Characters, Locations & Items. It's a little annoying scrolling the list without some kind of order.

2) Add a "Creatures" tab for Fantasy Writers. And a "Groups" tab for things such as organizations.

3) Have the right-click "Add New" popup open for all sections, not just the Characters one.

4) Add "delete" option when right-clicking on an item.

5) Under "Status" add additional Drafts to the drop-down, such as: First Draft, Second Draft, etc. Most people tend to have a few drafts before going to 1st Edition.

6) Have a FireFox-like spell check on every window that enters text.

Just a few user observations. Keep up the good work.

Anonymous said...

Hi Simon,

I just found yWriter5 and I totally love it. Thank you for your hard work on this and all you do!!!

XWolfe

Fox4 said...

Since RM3 is still a Beta, I have a tiny suggestion. Perhaps making it run in the background like ytimer would be helpful. I already use ybook and ytimer. I love how they both help me out. Thank you for all your work!

Kelli