The Numerous Faces of Spell Catcher
or
This Product Has Been Around For How Long?
Hope this brings back memories (more about the era than the product), at for least some long-time Spell Catcher users. Maybe some of our new customers will find it interesting as well!
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Warning: Some links on certain pages (Thunder 7-related) lead to sites with what might be considered R-rated language (just the text, images are fine).
Thunder!
Batteries Included, 1985-1986 - First Mac version.
Electronic Arts (Version 1.1), 1987-1988.
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Thunder II
Electronic Arts, 1988-1990 - Major re-write from Desk Accessory to a Control Panel.
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Thunder 7
Baseline Publishing, 1991-1994 - First version to include a thesaurus.
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Thunder 7 1.5
Baseline Publishing, 1991-1994 - Now with Ghostwriter!
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Spell Catcher 1.6
Casady & Greene, 1996, two years after Baseline Publishing "disappeared".
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Spell Catcher Plus 1.x
Casady & Greene, 1998 - First Windows version.
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Spell Catcher 8
Casady & Greene, 1999 - Total re-write, first multi-lingual version, new linguistics supplier.
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Spell Catcher Plus 2.0
Casady & Greene, 2000 - Major re-write of Windows version, same linguistics as Spell Catcher 8.
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Spell Catcher X 10.0
Casady & Greene, 2003 - Total re-write for Mac OS X.
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Spell Catcher Plus 2.6
Rainmaker Research Inc., 2005.
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