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August 2005 - Hot Potatoes v6.0.4.22 Released

Half-Baked Sofware have released the latest version of Hot Potatoes 6 for Windows. This new version has many enhancements, including full Unicode support. When used in conjunction with hotpotatoes.net, version 6 exercises can record extra information about incorrect answers given by students. See the Hot Potatoes web pages for details and downloads.

April 2003 - Quandary v2 Released

Half-Baked Sofware have released a new version of their Quandary program, for creating Action Mazes. This new version of the excellent Quandary program now allows uploading of Action Mazes to hotpotatoes.net. Even better, it is the first authoring program to take advantage of the hotpotatoes.net "Detailed Results" system, where as well as a simple numeric score, the teacher can also track their students' progress through the maze, and see how they achieved their score. For more information, please see the Quandary v2 web page.

September 2002 - TexToys v2.1 released

Creative Technology have released a new version of TexToys which works alongside hotpotatoes.net. TexToys is an authoring program for creating "Rhubarb" and "Sequitur" language learning exercises, and the latest version is fully unicode-compatible, allowing the creation of exercises which work in all kinds of languages and scripts.

For more details, please see the TexToys web page.