In a pre-release version of the original MAD, as a reference to MAD's namesake, MAD magazine, when a program contained too many compile time errors the compiler would print a full-page picture of Alfred E. Neuman using ASCII art.

His most recent studio album, 13th Star, was released on 12 September 2007 as a specially-packaged pre-release version available to order from his website.

The album itself differs significantly from the first pre-release version of it that had circulated: the songs " Us ", " Deeper ", " Don't Pass Me By ", " Too Far Gone ", " Northern Lights ", and " Loser Like Me " were cut, and " Down and Out of Time ", " A Million Parachutes ", " Tonight ", " Waiting on the Sun ", and a cover of Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over " were added.

New or heavily re-worked aircraft up to 1. 0 public release, including some that came out with the 0. 9. 11-pre1 FlightGear ( pre-release version ) as well as 9. 10 aircraft.

* A pre-release version of " Give it to Me " was featured in Sharpie marker's TV commercial with David Beckham in the summer of 2008.

A pre-release screenshot of the original version suggests graphics similar to those seen in both SimCopter and Streets of SimCity, and was intended to include extensive micromanagement.

It features two cuts of the film, the 156-minute print and a new edit created from an alternate pre-release version which re-arranges some scenes and does not include most of the explicit sexual inserts added by Guccione ( a few shots were left in by mistake and various outtakes from Brass ' shoot and a handful of 16 mm behind-the-scenes footage were used to fill in for the deleted material ).

Commentary tracks featuring McDowell and Mirren are included on the non-hardcore, pre-release version, and the DVD includes interviews with Tinto Brass, who discusses the film's hectic production and botched editing ; and Penthouse Pet Lori Wagner, who discusses the addition of the hardcore footage, including the lesbian sex scene in which she participated.

At the seminar, a paper tape containing a pre-release version of Altair BASIC disappeared.

These devices have been available since early 2007, and a pre-release version of the N-Gage application allowing users to purchase and download games was made available for download from the official N-Gage website on February 4, 2008.

* To prevent casual observers from concluding that a pre-release version is a new release of the product, thus helping reduce confusion.

Although none of these themes were included with a released version of Mac OS, the files can be copied from the pre-release versions that contained them and be successfully used on retail versions.

When the album was officially released in 2002, many critics refused to review it again as they had reviewed a pre-release version years earlier.

In order to be released at the same time as the game, commercial strategy guides are often based on a pre-release version of the game, rather than the final retail version ; BradyGames ' guide for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, for instance, included some misplaced item locations and a slightly different map, which made some directions impossible to follow.

In early previews-mostly of the 1996 pre-release version-there were some drastic differences from the final version.

In 1998, Sun Microsystems published a pre-release of the JavaServer Pages specification, version 0. 92.

After a month or two of development, Nigel took a pre-release version of his Spectrum code to the two year old software company A & F, co-founded by Doug Anderson and Mike Fitzgerald ( the " A " and " F ", respectively ).

Although movie studios generally do not make full-length workprints readily available to the public, there are exceptions ; examples include the " Work-In-Progress " version of Beauty and the Beast, and the Denver / Dallas pre-release version of Blade Runner.

The cinematic release of The Big Sleep is regarded as more successful than the pre-release version ( see below ), although some complain it is confusing and difficult to follow.

In the late 1990s, a pre-release version — director Hawks's original cut — was found in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

On some shows, an early pre-release working version of a future video was shown at some point, usually in the ' Next Week ' section.

A version 1. 1 " pre-release " was released in October 2008.

Amiga Format reviewed a pre-release version in its May, 1990 issue.

In 2002, NTT DoCoMo's FOMA 3G network was the first commercial UMTS network — using a pre-release specification, it was initially incompatible with the UMTS standard at the radio level but used standard USIM cards, meaning USIM card based roaming was possible ( transferring the USIM card into a UMTS or GSM phone when travelling ).

News of the compromises of the script spurred pre-release concerns that the film would prove a disappointment to hardcore cyberpunks, a fear which was ultimately borne out by the film's reception.

Throughout the pre-release development of the game, a well-balanced, realistic economy and social structure was the goal.

Intended to be a pre-release to Behind the Curtain, the as yet unreleased first album in Norman's Second Trilogy, first mentioned in 1983, Tourniquet was described by Dougie Adam as " perhaps Larry's deepest, most articulate album ever ... even more hard hitting than ' Only Visiting This Planet ' or ' Stranded in Babylon '".

The group's new album Time on Earth was released in June 2007 ; in the pre-release build up, they headlined a show at Coachella in April 2007, then commenced a world tour.

For example, by late 2007 the latest code release was 0. 9. 11-pre1 ( pre-release ) and 0. 9. 10 ( final ).

The upgrade was purely to the programming language ; the Atom's graphics and sound capabilities remained unchanged, and hence, contrary to some pre-release beliefs, the BBC BASIC ROM did not allow Atom users to run commercial BBC Micro software, since nearly all of it took advantage of the BBC machine's advanced graphics and sound hardware.

Given international pre-release sales had already made a profit, the studio allocated a reduced promotion and advertising budget to avoid the risk of the film becoming a loss-maker ; as a consequence, theatrical release was limited.

The pre-release title was " Jonny Quest and the Splinter of Heaven.

The engine was mated to a three-speed Lincoln automatic, and both engine and transmission were subject to extensive pre-release testing.

Although the album was certified Gold in the UK for pre-release sales to stores, it only peaked at no. 38 after its release in November 1983.

During the reintroduction of Corn Crakes to England in the 2003 breeding season, enteritis and ill heath in pre-release birds was due to bacteria of a pathogenic Campylobacter species.

Delphi was originally one of many codenames of a pre-release development tool project at Borland.

Although pre-release her comeback was described by the media as " shocking ", and the film suffered from poor marketing, her performance as Tulsi, a young homemaker diagnosed with blood cancer, was well received.

( The pre-release name for the screen was " The Gaping Pit ".

* Framework for software development, most notably the Microsoft. NET (“ dotNetFx ”); in particular, “ WinFX ” was pre-release codename of. NET 3. 0

A pre-release, Version 0. 92, was distributed for free on a floppy disk along with a Microsoft Windows systems readiness evaluation utility.

The first single from the album, " Curiosity ", was released on 26 August 2006, following a pre-release on the Australian iTunes Music Store.