In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gwicks ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>Those of us who went to the Sinclair show in Norwich a couple of years ago >>had a very strong impression that the Spectrum has not moved on to the same >>extent as the QL. We saw stall after stall selling Spectrum hardware and >>software that we remembered using in our Spectrum days. The only QL stall >>selling similar vintage QL software was Simon Goodwins. >I was about to write the same thing. The Spectrum has not 'moved on' or >got 'up to date'. The scene is only stronger than the QL because people >like playing the retro games (maybe because, given the age of the users, >the modern ones are too hard for them to take in). It was obvious at >that show that the QL was light years ahead of the Spectrum and equally >obvious that we had no software to offer. There is not one piece of >software for the QL that would tempt someone to get into the QL scene. Probably the only exception is QWord, which can be installed on a native QL system that has a QXL capacity, or a foreign system like a PC. It is also well packaged on a CD, and is easy to install. Not that I am a word game fan, really. The QL has moved on much further than the Spectrum with hardware. We have some exceptional QL emulators, and good range of technical utilities - like Launchpad and QDT. Unfortunately the applications are not being newly written to take full advantage; and the updates to older software are only partial. Usually done a good will basis. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
