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It has been revamped a number of times, usually to improve graphics. | It has been revamped a number of times, usually to improve graphics. | ||
The PC version was by [[Adam Baxter]] written in Visual Basic, and updated in {{unsure|1998}} by [[Chris Parker]] still in Visual | The PC version was by [[Adam Baxter]] written in Visual Basic, and updated in {{unsure|1998}} by [[Chris Parker]] still in Visual Basic but 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 in {{unsure|1999}} it was migrated to a | Later in {{unsure|1999}} it was migrated to a Window 98 machine by [[Alex Hudson]] after the cache memory failed on the old machine, and at this point it was renamed from Grapevine to Inform. The software branding was still as Grapevine, and by 2002 it was once more known as Grapevine. Whilst more stable, it still crashed quite easily when new slides were added, and the 640x480 resolution with 256 colours didn't look great on photos. | ||
This lead in 2005 to another complete re-write by [[Dave Baker]], using a Linux machine with 800x600 resolution and full 32-bit colour (it even does transparent images!). This made it possible to manage it online (via the YSTV website) and use full-resolution photographs for the first time. | |||
==Naming== | ==Naming== | ||