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Bible Puzzle Pro - History
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Living in Alabama with a
comfortable programming business, my wife, a newly
commissioned officer in the Air Force, found out she had
orders to Iceland. Iceland? Where is Iceland?
I hurried to a map to see if I could find it. Way
up there? Arctic Circle, North Atlantic, that can only
mean ice, snow and cold and here I am a twelve year
Alabama resident, who grew up in Florida. We made the move
and sure she had a job for our two year stay but what was I
going to do? I eventually found a great non-programming job
that I'll never forget
but I missed programming. I expressed my misery to my
mother one day and she asked if I could write her a program to create word search
puzzles using memory verses for her Sunday School kids and
an answer sheet for herself. These were the
humble beginnings of the program you see before you. I
got the idea to try and sell the software on Bulletin Boards
back in the States. I had seen a lot of shareware programs
around but not many targeting the Christian audience.
I dressed up the program, adding 2
more puzzle types, Cryptogram and Word Jumble, built a cool front
end and uploaded it to a BBS I knew back home. There was no Internet in
Iceland at the time and it was just evolving back in the
States so I pretty much
forgot about it...until registrations started coming in.
When we got back to the U.S. I was amazed at how much
interest there was and how far and wide the program had
spread with the new "World Wide Web". I started working on an upgrade that expanded
the puzzle types to 8 and bought the rights to use the NIV
version of the Bible as one of the data sources. I
released this version around 1996. After developing
version 3 two years later, I left the program alone as I was working as a full time programmer and didn't
really want to look at a computer at night. Version 4
was short lived. I started on it 3 years ago but then
had to move twice
and never got to really devote myself to the task. I started
work on this version, version 5, in September of 2006.
I
completely reworked the program to give it a more modern
look and added a couple more puzzle types. Also
included in this version is the ability to check for
updates. I will try to continue to develop the program for
Vista and beyond. |
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