PIE Developers – Volume 2.2 – March, 1994
PIE Developers, later PDA Developers, was the premier, independent printed resource for PDA developers in the mid-to-late 1990s. Originally billing itself as “A Technical Journal for Newton Developers,” early issues contained detailed articles, tutorials, and coding examples focusing on the Apple Newton MessagePad platform.
Published by San Francisco-based Creative Digital Systems, the journal was expertly managed and edited by Steve Mann (who also wrote a number of articles in each issue).
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Artifact Details
Creative Digital, Inc.
United States
English
March, 1994
$8.95 US, $9.95 Canada
Saddled-stitched printed journal on yellow paper.
In this issue:
- Guest Editorial
- News, Yahoos, and Errata
- Previews and Reviews (Shareware 2.0, Newt Boot, ViewFrame)
- An Introduction to NewtonScript Memory Management
- Introduction to ViewFrame
- Building the Perfect Beast II
- More Amazing Soup Experiments
- Of Benchmarks and Bottlenecks
- Spelunking With ViewFrame
- Startupscreen Newt
- How to Dim a Text Button
- Souped-Up: A Soup Browser
- A Different Kind of Calculator
- Thoughts on Interface: Waiting for Newton
- Tips and Techniques
8.5" x 11" (46 pages)
PIE Developers 2.2
March, 1994
Acquired from publisher
2018-07-21
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PIE Developers Volume 2.2, dated March 1994, is an issue of a technical journal that billed itself on its cover as A Technical Journal for Newton Developers and sold for $8.95 in the United States and $9.95 in Canada.1 The cover listed articles on Newton memory management, a ViewFrame primer, benchmarks, and a floating-point calculator, alongside reviews of shareware, Newt Boot, and ViewFrame.1
The journal had been publishing since at least late 1993: its November 1993 issue, Volume 1.15, was a special reprint of most of Volume 1.1 prepared for the Newton Platform Development Conference held December 7 and 8, 1993, and carried the same A Technical Journal for Newton Developers masthead and $8.95 United States cover price.2
Over the course of 1994 the publication broadened its scope beyond the Apple Newton: by its September 1994 issue, Volume 2.5, the cover tagline had changed to A Technical Journal for PDA Developers and the price had risen to $10.95 in the United States and $12.95 in Canada, while the masthead still read PIE Developers.3 With the November/December 1994 issue, Volume 2.6, the masthead itself became PDA Developers, the name the magazine carried thereafter.4 By April 1995 the renamed magazine was published by Creative Digital Inc. of San Francisco.5
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Footnotes
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 2.2 - March, 1994 (image scan), March 1994
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 1.15 - November, 1993 (image scan), November 1993
- Creative Digital, Inc., PIE Developers - Volume 2.5 - September, 1994 (image scan), September 1994
- Creative Digital, Inc., PDA Developers - Volume 2.6 - Nov/Dec 1994 (image scan), November 1994
- Creative Digital, Inc., Creative Digital Systems - PDA Developers East '95 (Press Release) (image scan), April 1, 1995
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