All,
I also love the Delrina Daily Planner, having received it in 1993, known then as the Amaze Daily Planner. My new wife (first and still) gave it to me as a first anniversary present. For the last year I have been searching for a way to run it on my new Dell XPS Windows 10 machine and have had no luck. I have tried the Windows Compatibility tool and it won't even touch the Daily Planner install.exe file or tell me what's wrong with it. Since 1993 I have run it on Windows 3.1, W95, W2000 and WXP. Once my last two XP machines die I will be without my Daily Planner which has been my favorite major resource for managing my life activities. The current crop of planners are just a calendar month page with little boxes to put stuff in; pathetically lame compared to the Daily Planner’s capabilities.
I now have 24 years of planner .dp files, containing history since 1993, and I hate the thought of losing access to that history. However, excavating through the web I have found three of the original Amaze staff and begged them to resurrect the Amaze Daily Planner to run on Windows 10 and beyond. Right now my latest contact today (October 16, 2017) says he will look into it but he’s busy with a new startup. There may be problems with finding the original source code and with the current owner of the product who has vehemently stated that they refuse to consider bringing the planner back.
Right now, I'd like to get a feel for how many people might be interested in resurrecting the Daily Planner to run on Windows 10 and beyond. Maybe popular demand would convince them to see it as a new, viable product. If they can bring Blade Runner back after 35 years why not the Daily Planner after only 24 years? At this point I have told them I'd pay $1,000 to get a planner that would move into the future as Microsoft advances their OS beyond W10 and would be able to open all my old .dp files. If we can demonstrate enough interest in bringing the Planner back they may feel some real encouragement to re-acquire the license to it and update the source code to work on the new Windows environments into the future. Best case we see a new Daily Planner 2017 hit the market. Please reply to: Jay Arthurs at (e-mail address removed).
Thanks. Jay
I also love the Delrina Daily Planner, having received it in 1993, known then as the Amaze Daily Planner. My new wife (first and still) gave it to me as a first anniversary present. For the last year I have been searching for a way to run it on my new Dell XPS Windows 10 machine and have had no luck. I have tried the Windows Compatibility tool and it won't even touch the Daily Planner install.exe file or tell me what's wrong with it. Since 1993 I have run it on Windows 3.1, W95, W2000 and WXP. Once my last two XP machines die I will be without my Daily Planner which has been my favorite major resource for managing my life activities. The current crop of planners are just a calendar month page with little boxes to put stuff in; pathetically lame compared to the Daily Planner’s capabilities.
I now have 24 years of planner .dp files, containing history since 1993, and I hate the thought of losing access to that history. However, excavating through the web I have found three of the original Amaze staff and begged them to resurrect the Amaze Daily Planner to run on Windows 10 and beyond. Right now my latest contact today (October 16, 2017) says he will look into it but he’s busy with a new startup. There may be problems with finding the original source code and with the current owner of the product who has vehemently stated that they refuse to consider bringing the planner back.
Right now, I'd like to get a feel for how many people might be interested in resurrecting the Daily Planner to run on Windows 10 and beyond. Maybe popular demand would convince them to see it as a new, viable product. If they can bring Blade Runner back after 35 years why not the Daily Planner after only 24 years? At this point I have told them I'd pay $1,000 to get a planner that would move into the future as Microsoft advances their OS beyond W10 and would be able to open all my old .dp files. If we can demonstrate enough interest in bringing the Planner back they may feel some real encouragement to re-acquire the license to it and update the source code to work on the new Windows environments into the future. Best case we see a new Daily Planner 2017 hit the market. Please reply to: Jay Arthurs at (e-mail address removed).
Thanks. Jay
. It'll be a 16-bit application, which won't run on Windows 10, not matter how the compatibility settings are tweaked.
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