Past:
Not really interesting. Better read about AnyWare -  this is much more important!!!
Ok, ok... in 1994 somebody made me want to know the TOS version of my Atari ST. When I finally knew it, I already knew much more and had written a small info program for gathering that knowledge. I wanted to make this program available to others and used the other information it gathered to extend its feature set. So it grew bigger and bigger. At some point of time the information was not given in Boxes anymore, but in Windows.
More about the history and the credits are in the text files in the program archive.
End of the History:
In the time after version 1.997 was published (1997) the list of Cookies was extended to more than 230.
The size of the executable was reduced by 15 kB.
The Year-2000-Compatibility was verified (till year 2249).
Minor bugfixes were made and some informations extended.

AnyWare:
Infomat is AnyWare, that means it doesn't matter HOW you show you like the program - as long as you do it at all ;-)
Really: it was a long and hard work! Other authors have time- and feature-limited trial versions with disturbing "Hey, this is Shareware!"-messages all the time. If you want to use the fully functional program you have to pay lots of money, but most of the time you don't do that, do you?

I know it. I also use other programs, of course. And I always like it if it is free and still not limited. Believe me: if the author only wanted a postcard or some feedback, I would be more inclined to give it than real money.

I hope so do you. If you like INFOMAT and use it, please send me some feedback or gift.
Some proposals (I make it easy and support many kinds of *Ware...) :

• Recommend INFOMAT personally or on your Homepage, link to http://infomat.akucom.de, pass on the (complete) program archive
• Tell me about errors you encountered using INFOMAT, Cookies, INFOMAT didn't recognize or using it successfully (or not) on an Atari clone.
• PostcardWare: Send me a postcard from your vacations or from your home town
• BeerWare: If you think INFOMAT is really good, send me a can of Beer! wirklich gelungen finden, schicken Sie mir doch eine Dose Bier!
• SchweppesWare: I collect different flavours of Schweppes drinks. THE perfect thing for people outside europe: send me a can or at least a label of a bottle of Schweppes. You can see what flavours I already have in the program texts and HERE.
• CookieWare: Send me some Cookies!
• EmailWare: Send me an e-mail full of thanking words.
• ChocoWare: Send me some chocolate.
• everything else you can imagine

• recognition of new and more Cookies
• support of extensions like BubbleGEM
• informations about XBRA
• specific Falcon030 informations
• informations about single files and quickview
• everything you demand if the demand is high enough and it is not too much work