On 15 Jun 2010, at 23:29, Roy Wood wrote: > > The QL was a business computer in concept. Very few games of any note. Right > now, as was pointed out earlier, there is no decent word processor and no > other, modern, usable, software. QPC2 runs just fine on my W7 machine, but > why would I use it? If I was a new user what would make me want to buy it and > run it? >
I use QPC2 for doing horrible things like tax returns for which I wrote Archive programs a very long time ago. Rewriting for a PC or whatever is just not an option for me. I also use QPC2 for programming, both in SBASIC especially for quick one off results, and in Assembler. I have tried Visual Basic on a PC and I did not like it. Assembler on Intel chips is pretty ghastly. A new user of QPC2, say, would, I imagine, almost certainly want to use it for programming - and almost certainly not for the word processors etc available. Quite obviously, QPC2 would not be an alternative to a PC but would be one of the applications a PC could run. > On my W7 and XP machines I run music software, word processing and > spreadsheets, email, photo manipulation and website creation software. What > is there on the QL side of things that matches this? The QL was fun to > program in SuperBASIC ( I never got any further) and, back 18 years ago, > would multitask when most PCs could not (nor can the iPAD), but it was > rapidly overtaken by modern hardware and software. > > What I was saying before still applies. If you want to keep it alive you need > to keep the scene alive. You need innovation and you need some sort of > commercial operation. I know that there are a whole bumch of 'free software' > guerillas out there but no free software has ever matched the commercial > stuff - sad as that may be. > Hm. I thought Firefox was free software. When RBS stopped allowing me to use Safari on an IMAC for their online banking I had to use the PC's version of Firefox, which RBS accepted. I also use, on a PC, a free version of a screen grabber. (On QPC2 I prefer my own!) George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
