Hear Hear Nobody outwith the QL World is going to pay for limited capability out of date software.
By charging for SMSQE and other software the QL world has succesfully shot itself in the foot and has been abandonned by the rest of the computing world. It has also stopped Peter Graf developing new hardware. The best thing that happen to the QL is if ALL software was issued under one of the freeware licenses and we attract some of free software comunity. Refuse to do this and the QL and SMSQE will die. Furthermore you will only have yourselves to blame! On Wednesday 14 February 2007 21:11, omega wrote: > > From: "Neil Riley" > > A comment Davide made to me has suddenly hit home. Basically he was > > pleased that someone > > was still having fun with his product after some 10 years or more.... > > but wait a minute, the spectrum > > scene is still strong so why on earth isn't ZM/ht etc still > > commercially available and being advertised on > > Auction sites like Ebay. > > With full respect to Davide - he did truly good job with his emulator, I > do love it - I wouldn't probably buy it today. This time has gone. I > like his approach to provide it for free, which promotes himself better > than low selling product. > > I am from spectrum scene and I cannot believe what some people are > writing here. Have you ever think why on earth is the spectrum still so > strong? There are knowledged people willing to share for NO PROFIT. This > makes the spectrum scene stable, strong and up to date with HW and SW. > IDE HDD interface called divIDE (similar to Qubide) is great example of > such activity : http://baze.au.com/divide/ Anyone can build it from > schematics, buy a DIY kit for 20EURO(!) or buy a complete interface for > 30EURO. For 30 EUROs (+/- price of the components) your ZX Spectrum has > much higher value and more features. Reward for these authors is only > success and feedback from users. > > Similar trends to have open projects can be seen in Atari scene, > Commodore (look at Commodore One), MSX, CPC (look at try out SymbOS) etc. > > In contrary what I see here on QL scene is still push to commerciality. > This doesn't attract newcomers, because unexpanded QL which you buy on > ebay with four Psion microdrives is nothing more than poor computer with > "cool design and potential". Expanding QL is hard and expensive or not > possible due to lack of expension cards. At the top of it there are no > open source projects to change this status. Software on QL is special > category... So, where is the QL heading? > > I don't want to be missinterpretted - it is nothing against you Neil, > but certainly I see here big difference in ZX Scene and QL Scene. > > > btw, as a side question. I have plenty of _Z80 images that ZM/hT > > expects but i have even more .SNA's. > > Is anyone aware of a .SNA to _Z80 convertors. Just for fun i renamed > > .sna to Z80_rom and whilst ZM/ht > > saw the Z80 and even showed initial splash screens, it crashes. > > Z80 is compressed, SNA is not. Decompressing not compressed data must > certainly crash. > > Jan > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
