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Yes, Slang's incredible work gave new
life to me and many others. I am extremely thankful for his idea
to incorporate his work and attach it to a new Installer,
notwithstanding the days when the Yahoo groups split and useless
accusations were thrown from left to right. It was earlier, I
remember the May of 2005, when the release of Service Pack 2 of
Win XP made the original 16-bit Ecco Installer for the first time
useless. On request of some Yahoo group members, I created a
manual EccoPro installation called "EccoFilesSystem.zip" which was
freely distributed to many other online blocks and is still
available today at the EccoMagic
Forums ;-)
Friedhelm
On 9/4/2015 12:11 AM, r634718-/[email protected] [eccopro] wrote:
Ah yes, Friedhelm. I had forgotten some of those
things. Yes, I do recall now that Ecco probably got
dumped as part of a deal between MS and NM that involved
scuttling it. Yes, that was the scuttlebutt at the time.
I used to be fairly active in the old NM forum. I
remember a few attempts at different times and by
different people to buy, acquire, or otherwise pry Ecco
out of NM's hands as far back as the 90s. Some of them
raised money, some of them took a very long time, but all
of them went nowhere. And then later the failed open
source release. Those were frustrating years.
To tell you the truth, it was Slang who revived my
interest in Ecco. Just before he came along, I was
feeling that I had nearly had it. The prospect of more
years with no new development was just getting too
depressing after all that time. If Slang hadn't arrived
on the scene just then, I probably wouldn't be here
today. I am so thankful that I stayed around to see his
magic show. It's one of the most impressive things I have
ever seen in any aspect of my life.
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