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12/9/03 - A-OK! WoM Windows beta test delayed. I apologize for the lack of communication over the last few months. I have had to attend to several personal and business issues that had a higher priority. These issues have been cleared up and I am back on the project. The main issues facing us are mostly due to some bugs in REALbasic, which are currently being worked on. I am also reprogramming some of code to work around some of the normal cross-platform issues. A-OK! WoM's development is such a saga, that it will be the subject of a detailed post-mortem article in REALbasic Developer. I again thank you for your support and continued e-mails, urging me to get WoM on Windows! Joe

8/1/03 - A-OK! WoM 3.1 for Windows in private beta test! A selected group of beta testers are currently testing the Windows version of A-OK! WoM. I am expecting that the testing period will last 6-8 weeks. PLEASE do not ask to become beta testers as the list is closed.

6/6/03 - A-OK! WoM 3.0.2 reviewed on Low End Mac. Low End Mac, as site that specializes in making the most of older Macintosh computers (especially in education), has just reviewed A-OK! WoM. Read the review at http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/03/0605.html. In his Mac Lab Report, Jeff Adkins praises A-OK! Wom's realism, support of slower Macs and muses on various educational uses for the program.

12/18/02 - A-OK! WoM 3.0.2 for Mac OS X and 9 released! This version, in addition to bringing A-OK! WoM to the Mac OS X platform, also reduces mission startup time to less than 5% off its original length. NOTE: This is the last upgrade for Mac OS 9.

12/13/02 - A-OK! WoM 3.0 for Mac OS X to be released December 18! Final testing is wrapping up! Once this version is out we will be 100% focused on the Windows version.

11/26/02 - YOU ARE GO! email is down. Our email has been down since the weekend. If you have tried to contact us, please accept our apologies and check back later in the week.

8/24/02 - A-OK! The Wings of Mercury 3.0.1 receives the 2002 Cubie Award for Educational Software.REAL Software, the developers of REALbasic, have awarded A-OK! The Wings of Mercury the 2002 Cubie Award for Educational Software. REALbasic is the development tool that A-OK! WoM was developed with.

From the REAL Software Web Site: "A-OK is an amazing product, an incredibly detailed simulation of a Mercury mission, with every switch and event modeled. It's cool!"

From the Cubies Award web page: "REAL Software's Cubie awards recognize the contributions REALbasic users have made to the industry by recognizing the excellence of what they have produced with REALbasic. Cubies entries are judged on quality, fitness to the task (fun game? useful utility?), polish, verve, and brio."

5/20/02 - Version 3.0.1 release. This release fixes the Attitude Controller bug described below and also fixes a bug that caused the spacecraft to burn up during reentry even when ASCS was engaged and operational.

5/18/02 - Attitude Controller bug.On certain systems, the Attitude controller will not operate using either keyboard, mouse or 3D Joystick. The cause of the bug is known and will be fixed very shortly. It will not require a full download.

5/8/02 - Installer Bug Fixed. The Installer should now operate properly.

4/30/02 - Installer Bug. There is a bug in the installer that will freeze some systems if you select a different folder to install A-OK! WoM. Just let the installer install in the default folder (usually the Startup Disk) and manually move the entire folder where you want.

4/29/02 - YOU ARE GO! ships A-OK! The Wings of Mercury 3.0. YOU ARE GO! today announced A-OK! The Wings of Mercury for Mac OS Classic is shipping. A-OK! The Wings of Mercury simulates America's first spacecraft, Project Mercury. Users can fly orbital mission's like John Glenn's historic 1962 flight or sub-orbital missions, simulating the first two American space flights by Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.

A-OK! The Wings of Mercury is priced at $59.95 and $29.95 for an upgrade from 2.x. A demo version, which can be upgraded to a full version right from the program, is available for download at the YOU ARE GO! web site. A Mac OS X native version will be released shortly and a Windows version is in development.

A-OK! The Wings of Mercury opens a new frontier in computer simulations. The operation of every gauge, light and switch in the spacecraft is simulated to a high degree of fidelity. So accurate are the spacecraft systems that users consult reproductions of the actually flight documentation used by the Mercury astronauts. The simulator can generate hundreds of failure scenarios that require split-second decisions to survive.

Real-time 3D shows the view out the window and also provides an external camera that follows the spacecraft through the entire flight. The Mercury navigational periscope, with it's unique 160° view is also simulated.

A-OK! The Wings of Mercury ships with A-OK! Mission Control Center, an application that simulates the consoles at Mercury mission control and allows up to ten participants to assume the roles of Flight Dynamics Officer, Flight Surgeon, Cap Com, etc. The networked simulations can run on a LAN or over the Internet.

A-OK! The Wings of Mercury also ships with a suite of tools that allows users to edit the launch and landing areas, calculate retrofire and ground station contact times and other mission-critical tasks.

Users can extend and modify many items (weather, launch events, checklists, astronaut data, mission profile, saved missions, ground stations, etc.) by editing a simple XML file OR, create your own editor for that particular item.

The demo version is restricted to sub-orbital, non-networked simulations and does not allow the use of the A-OK! Tool Kit.

4/24/02 - Mac OS release delayed because of computer crash. I finished the beta test, was completing my OS Classic release and then had a complete disk failure in my primary development machine. I had backups but between ordering a new drive, installing it and all the software and catching up on the consulting work that got delayed, I still have not gotten the release package finished. I am hoping to get this done in a week or so. Sorry about that.