MacHack's Top 10 requests to Apple; Best Hack awards

Top Ten Last week's MacHack generated its annual Top Ten list of requests to Apple. As reported in MacWEEK, "No. 1 on the list was a request to give small developers access to necessary portions of Apple's developer program at a reasonable cost. The second item echoed requests from previous years' lists and asked that Apple rejuvenate interest among students and young people to develop for the Mac platform."

Best Hacks "The title of Best Hack and the coveted Victor A-Trap trophy went to "asciiMac", the hands-down favorite hack. Written by a team of first-time MacHackers, Alexandra Ellwood and Miro Jurisic's hack wowwed and amazed the late night crowd. This retro-hack renders the entire screen in ASCII art in real time. The crowd thrilled to demonstrations of the hack's artistic prowess as it ASCII-converted running QuickTime movies and Windows 95 under PC emulation." More information about the winners of the Best Hacks contest for 1998 will be available at the MacHack web site.