masonmark/Dash-Board-for-Newton-OS

To run this software on your Newton or (more likely) your Newton Emulator, you need only install the packages DashBoard2013.proj.pkg and DashBoardPrefs.proj.pkg, which can be found alongside their respective project files in this archive.

To hack on and build this software, however, you will very probably need to read at least the build instructions below, because it is a fairly convoluted process, for historical reasons, and is not obvious even for people who are familiar with compiling software from the source.

I've been meaning to make Dash Board free for many years now, and this project, "Dash Board 2013" is the long-procrastinated effort to do that. However, for reasons described below, it wasn't just a simple matter of uploading the source code to GitHub and posting a note to the NewtonTalk mailing list.

The answer was -- and is -- that nobody knows. The best guess is that the only remaining copy of the canonical 1.5.1 release archive is on a server backup CDROM in a spindle in a ziplock bag in a box on a pallet in the basement of the building that housed Five Speed's old office in Málaga, Spain. (That office closed in 2004.)

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