#A long time ago far far away archive
#A long time ago far far away upgrade
#A long time ago far far away code

Luna believes the Force will bring the three back to their proper universe, but until then it is up to her to find a way to keep Anakin from the darkside and warn the two Jedi and Senator of what is to come. Things begin to become steadily more chaotic as time goes on. One night, her world is turned upside down when she meets three people from a place that she had previously thought only existed in her imagination and dreams. She is obsessed with Star Wars, friendless, has a past she tries not to think about, and is used to handling everything one way: solo. The next thing the three of them know, the Force has transported them to a different place.ДЄ different universe, to a planet that is known as Earth. Anakin has finally had his long awaited reunion with PadmГ©. Now, if I can only find a copy of that old QuickClips CD-ROM that used to come with the QuickTime Starter Kit, and the nostalgia will be complete.Anakin and Obi-Wan have just rescued the Chancellor and returned to planet side safe and sound. It even out lasted the infamous вЂњMissile CommandвЂќ clone that worked from the 128k Macs to early OS X, while Carbon was still targetable. Even thought the current app has little to no relationship to its original incarnation, at least from a UI standpoint, it gives me a good nostalgic feeling that this app survived the turbulent technology changes over the decades Apple product users have been exposed to. That app never made it to Intel.)Д«ut PCalc was the first app I paid for when the iOS app store opened, and IвЂ™ve happily used it on my iPod touch and iPads ever since, even adding a tip to the jar when it was first added. (For the record, I switched to an obscure app called MathPad.

#A long time ago far far away upgrade

It was initially paid for by Apple via pack-in with some models, with one upgrade fee out of appreciation. I no longer use PCalc on my Mac, as my last license for it was from the Classic OS era. You can even hear me talk about it below.

If you want to read up the origin story in detail, you can do so here. Thanks to everybody who has bought a copy over the years and made that possible, or put something into the tip jar. In a way, itвЂ™s the surprisingly devoted child thatвЂ™s supporting me in my old age. I wrote one of the most excessive About screens in recorded history.Д«ut I keep coming back to PCalc. I went to work for Apple on the Finder and Dock. I wrote DragThing, which was the go to app launcher on the Mac for a good decade. I havenвЂ™t been writing PCalc constantly for 25 years.

#A long time ago far far away code

Some of that code still runs today, deep at the heart of the machine.ДonвЂ™t get me wrong. I started writing in the summer of 1992 and it took me around six months to get it into a state where I was happy to show it to the world.

#A long time ago far far away archive

I sent an email to the Info-Mac archive moderators that evening, and it turned up on FTP mirror sites around the world a few days later. PCalc is a neat simulation of a programmable scientific calculator. Yet, that is how long it has been since PCalc 1.0 was released.Д®nclosed is a binhex file containing a submission for your archives. A quarter of a century sounds even longer.