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The PC version was by [[Adam Baxter]] written in Visual Basic, and updated in {{unsure|1998}} by [[Chris Parker]] still in Visual Basicbut this time supporting a wider range of sizes and colour depths of display bitmaps. However this version suffered from storing a running ticker (below the bitmap portion) in a CSV file which wasn't escaped, so ticker items enclosed in quotes would crash the program leaving a Windows 3.11 error box being broadcast.  
The PC version was by [[Adam Baxter]] written in Visual Basic, and updated in {{unsure|1998}} by [[Chris Parker]] still in Visual Basicbut this time supporting a wider range of sizes and colour depths of display bitmaps. However this version suffered from storing a running ticker (below the bitmap portion) in a CSV file which wasn't escaped, so ticker items enclosed in quotes would crash the program leaving a Windows 3.11 error box being broadcast.  


Later {{unsure|1999}} it was migrated to a Linux machine by [[Alex Hudson]] after the cache memory failed on the old machine, and at this point it was renamed from Grapevine to Inform.
Later in {{unsure|1999}} it was migrated to a Linux machine by [[Alex Hudson]] after the cache memory failed on the old machine, and at this point it was renamed from Grapevine to Inform.


Most recently in 2005 when it was made possible to manage it online and use full-resolution photographs for the first time.   
Most recently in 2005 when it was made possible to manage it online and use full-resolution photographs for the first time.   
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