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Functioning Maple V R1 DOS demo (circ. 1991)
468A while back, I ran across this little gem in an ASME archive. It's a DOS demo of Maple V Release 1 from 1991! Unzip and run maple.exe. On my XP machine, you get an initial error but if you simply ignore it, the demo launches and the demo will run. Press enter to work through the predefined examples. At the end you'll get a blank prompt. Comes with a reduced library so you can't do everything but you'll get a taste of what life used to be like ... T4.
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Very impressive
Wow! Very impressive! Colors and graphics are much better than in the current command line version. Thank you for posting it.
Alec
how about a screen shot of Maple V R1
For those of us who don't have ready access to DOS, how about a screen shot?
Exceeds maximum file size
I made a few screenshots, but couldn't attach them - every time got an error: Exceeds maximum file size (each of them is a png file of size about 20 KB). Same as with my Binomial.zip file couple of days ago (that was about 2 KB size.)
did you try posting it on your blog?
Maybe attachments can be larger for blogs. Or is that the only place that attachments are allowed? For instance, there is no option to add an attachment to a response.
Attaching files
Yes, that what I usually did - I created a special blog entry for that (with animation of 2 curves :) Worked OK until the time of my binomial coefficients mod 2 blog entry. Does attaching work for you now?
Finally, I put the screenshots (and Binomial.zip) on my web site and linked them from there.
Image resolution
The problem was likely because the images you tried to upload were larger than 1024x768 which was the maximum resolution allowed by the system.
I just removed that restriction. It will stay like that until we see abuse of the abilities.
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William Spaetzel
Applications Developer, Maplesoft
Attaching
The images are not that big, they are of 652x338 size - one can see them in my blog. I linked them from my web site. I just tried to attach them again and got the same error,
Error attaching file 135_Maple1.png: exceeds maximum file size. That affects not only images, but other files, too - such as Binomial.zip that is only about 2 KB.Please try again
I have removed the restricions on file size.
Please look into the problem again. If it occurs again, I will look into fixing it.
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William Spaetzel
Applications Developer, Maplesoft
Same error.
Same error.
Ok. I'll look into it
Ok. I'll look into it
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William Spaetzel
Applications Developer, Maplesoft
Screenshots
I posted 7 screenshots in my blog.
For linux users
I downloaded http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/msdos/calculus/maplev/maplev.zip
and I tried it using qemu+kqemu+freedos: it worked fine, except for 3d plots which looked ugly...
Usenet posting from September 13, 1990
Here's a USENET posting by Gaston Gonnet from Thursday, September 13, 1990, advertising the release of Maple V Release 1:
http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.math/msg/a0943460c10ca7a4
May 20th, 1988
this post is the oldest mention of Maple that I can find on sci.math.symbolic. Maple 4.2 for the Amiga!
It's great to read those old articles. Maple used to be able to run in 8Megs of memory. Actually, it used to run on a 1Meg Mac too, but that was fairly painful.
Even farther back, more easily!
In Maple 9.5 Classic (sorry, can't check 10 right now), if you do
?updates
you get a help page with links to the updates for current versions of Maple, going back to Maple 7. No big deal, right?
But if you look in the help browser window instead, you'll see links for the What's New going all the way back to Maple 4.0. For you youngsters out there, that is not Maple V R4, but genuine Maple 4.0, the one that was released in 1985. Have a gander through that blast from the past.
If there is a demand, I believe I might still be able to dig up the What's New for Maple 3.3 and 3.2 as well, though I can't promise.
I must admit I have very fond memories of the Windows GUI for Maple V R1 for some strange reason. Let's see if anyone remembers why ;-) More seriously though, if someone out there can find a (working) set of disks of Maple V Release 1 for Windows, I would like to buy it from them.