Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: 5/ Any person may make any change to the source code he feels like. Any person may give away to others the modificaton he thus made, including the official distribution in source code form only, provided this is made ENTIRELY FOR FREE - no charges, not even copying charges, or charges for the media on which this is distributed, may be levied. Some hypothetical questions: i) Would I be able to give away my modification(s) in source form without including the official distribution sources? ii) Would I be able to give away my modified version of SMSQ/E in compiled form? iii) Would I be able to put my modified version of the source code on, say, Sourceforge? F - Time (or lack of it). It will be a few months before the entire code will be given to me, digested and recompiled etc. Please be patient. Good luck! John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: [ql-users] The future of SMSQ/E
Ian Pine wrote: In my opinion we should be looking at small tweaks to the OS, finding opportunities to make it more efficient, adding only enough features to make it keep up with hardware developments, while keeping it compact. Larger projects should certainly be developed, but they should be in the form of application layers, that can be loaded or not, as the user chooses. If it moves too far from the original QL look feel - more Windows-like or more Unix-like and users aren't given the choice of which interface style to use, the platform will lose its identity, then what is there to make us choose it over a PC running one of those other operating systems? Perhaps we should take a risk and stay defiantly different - that might attract some new users who are curious, attracted precisely because it IS different. But some of the minor irritations need to be tidied up first. I agree. SMSQDOS will never be a mainstream OS and if we try to make it one we'll just end up losing its distinctive character. Also, we should be wary of asking for too much and ending up with nothing. Marcel and Jochen have reluctantly concluded that if anything is going to get done, they're going to have to do it. We should be grateful for whatever they are able to do to WMAN and encourage them to make further surgical strikes on SMSQ/E . John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ql-users] supergoldcard problems
Well now it works for five minutes ,then the ql dies. /Michael Do you mean it locks up? Are you using and old-ish monitor? If yes to both, try a different monitor or even a TV. If that solves the problem then your monitor is affecting whichever of the video sync signals the SGC uses to drive the DRAM refresh! This happened to me at a Bristol workshop; fortunately Stuart H. was on hand to explain the weird behaviour (system wouldn't boot with new SGC, SGC worked in another system, system WOULD boot with GC!). John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
