About SchartWorks Software...
All you ever wanted to know. And then some!
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SchartWorks Software was "formed" in February of 2003. Well, not really, but sort of. In all actuality, what is now SchartWorks Software got its start way back in 2000 when the President/CEO/CFO/Sole Employee of SchartWorks Software, Peter Schart, received and installed Mac OS X 10.0 and immediately started futzing with the Developer Tools. Ah, those were magic times for our beloved platform. Scary, invigorating and hopeful at once. Before this, Peter had done some programming on Mac OS 9 and below as well as Windows and Unix coding for his "real job" but when he started experimenting in Mac OS X's Cocoa environment he knew there was no turning back. It was the bomb-diggity - if I may be so bold as to be cliche.
That was when work began on Cocoa Poker, which, at the time, was meant as little more than a tool to learn Objective-C. The thought of releasing it to the unwashed masses never entered Peter's mind for he wasn't sure it was... well, worthy. The months passed and Cocoa Poker slowly evolved (he still had a day-job, mind you) into a fairly decent little game and, sometime in October of 2002, Peter decided to see if VersionTracker would even consider listing it on their site. In retrospect, he probably should have realized that they would (wink wink nudge nudge) but he's got an inferiority complex. And so it came to be that VersionTracker listed Cocoa Poker on their site. And the crowds cheered. After all, how many times have YOU asked yourself, "Gee, I wish there were more video poker games for Mac OS X"? Be honest. 100? 1000? At least, right?
As time went on, many people downloaded Cocoa Poker and many people sent Peter their thanks, thoughts, criticisms, suggestions and submissions and Peter improved Cocoa Poker even more. And, lo, the crowds cheered yet again.
Then he made a quick-and-dirty little utility, DropCT (formerly called Drop CreatorType - nasty, isn't it?), to accommodate a particular computing need he had. So he submitted that to VersionTracker and it, too, was listed. And the crowds yawned. But that was okay because DropCT was mostly for him. He just listed it in the off chance that someone else might actually find it useful.
Inevitably, our tale drags on. Next came DooZee. It was released, listed, downloaded, critiqued and improved. The crowds did cheer.
Around this time it was decided that the plunge should be taken and Peter registered schartworks.com and signed up for hosting - thusly "forming" his own little software "company."
And so our tale draws to a close. For now. Before you click the back button, though, let me just tell you a few things about SchartWorks Software's philosophies, so to speak: Peter has a firm commitment to Mac OS X as well as to his users. He will never abandon the platform (lest he be stricken with scurvy) and will always try to give his users what they want, not what he wants. Or at least the option to pick one type of want or the other. So rejoice, yon Mac users, for SchartWorks Software... is... born! And (for now) it's all free! Free, I say!
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