May 31th, 2000

[10:30 AM] Math/Science Tool Adds Improved OS 9 Support by Staff QuantumSoft has updated their scientific/mathematical application, pro Fit, to version 5.5. The new version provides a host of improvements, including better support for OS 9, improved graphing capabilities, and handles for date and time data. According to QuantumSoft:: The new 5.5 version provides many new features, such as a powerful source level debugger for programs (macros), histogram and skyline plotting, date and time data types, a revised 3D plotting plug-in based on OpenGL, adaptation of new technologies introduced under MacOS 9, and more. pro Fit 5.5 is a powerful tool for the analysis, processing, plotting and evaluation of numerical data and mathematical functions. It comes with a spreadsheet editor for handling numeric, date and time, and alphanumeric data sets of millions of rows and columns, a drawing editor for creating high quality graphs and presentations, powerful curve fitting and data analysis tools, a built-in Pascal-based compiler with complex and matrix data types, a source-level debugger for programming functions and macros, a module for 3D-plotting based on OpenGL, and more. It provides a context sensitive help mechanism, is scriptable and recordable with Apple Script and Pascal commands, and supports many of the latest technologies introduced with Mac OS 9. pro Fit is available for US$95. You can find more information at the QuantumSoft web site. QuantumSoft