Red Ryder is the grand-daddy of all telecommunications apps for the
Macintosh and easily the most popular one for the Macintosh during the
1980s, the other notable ones being [MacTerminal][1] and Smartcom II.

Red Ryder can emulate a plain teletype terminal or e.g. a DEC VT100.
It offered an unseen (for the time) variety of file transfer protocols
like XMODEM, YMODEM or Kermit while fully supporting the MacBinary
format. That includes support for sending ASCII text files. So
essentially people would use it to call in with services or even
running their own limited personal BBS system.

Red Ryder initially started out as a MS-BASIC application back in
1984, written by Wat Buchanon. After Buchanon's untimely death, Scott
Watson took over Red Ryder and continued to develop the program as a
standalone application. (Buchanon's Red Ryder was a Basic application
and thus not compiled but just "interpreted")

The foreword of the commercial successor [White Knight][2] 11 manual
gives an excellent run-down on the history of the renamed Red Ryder,
including some of the reasons it started out as shareware. Mainly,
Scott Watson, had some bad dealings with commercial publishers and
really couldn't afford to risk getting a grand total of $31 and change
in royalties (and that was in the form of a "rubber check") out of a
program that was selling for at least that much a crack. He also
couldn't afford to publish the thing himself. Finally, he couldn't
afford to give it away, since it was too great an investment in time
and finances to expect zero return. So he decided to publish it as
shareware.

Version 9.4 is the last one when Red Ryder was still shareware. It
went the commercial route with the release of Red Ryder 10.0 in 1988.

1st Download: Version 10.3 of Red Ryder.

2nd Download: Version 9.4 of Red Ryder.

3rd Download: Version 7.0 of Red Ryder.

4th Download: MS-BASIC 1984 release (v. 2.0) by Wat Buchanon (in a
folder)

5th Download: Version 3.0 in a compressed image.

6th Download: Version 4.0 in a compressed image.

See also: [White Knight][2]

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macterminal-30
  [2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/white-knight

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