Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-09 Thread Andrew Collier
At 9:50 am +0100 7/4/99, Aley Keprt wrote: The Lyra 3 is already there in .dsk format. That was done weeks ago. I know, because I did it myself. Great! But why didn't you anounced it? I think many people wait for Lyra 3 (incl. me :). I did... At 4:00 pm +0100 6/3/99, Andrew Collier wrote:

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-09 Thread Andrew Collier
At 10:05 am +0100 7/4/99, Aley Keprt wrote: [Andrew Collier wrote:] Well like I said, I think issues 1 to 12 are on ftp.nvg already but I doubt there are plans to upload any more. It's all a very hazy area, but to declare those FRED issues as PD would be changing the legal status of some of *my*

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-09 Thread Chris White
[Andrew Collier wrote:] Colin MacDonald can distribute FRED how he likes, including free-of-charge by anonymous ftp. This is not the same as declaring the software to be PD, which I still don't think he can do. I haven't signed anything which would allow him to change the legal status of any

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-07 Thread Aley Keprt
I would be really happy if someone will convert at least teledisk files to sad/dsk (The Lyra III etc.). The Lyra 3 is already there in .dsk format. That was done weeks ago. I know, because I did it myself. Great! But why didn't you anounced it? I think many people wait for Lyra 3 (incl. me :).

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-07 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: (As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. There can only be one associated application to handle a double click, but there's no reason why we can't use a shell extension DLL that adds one or more items to the context menu when you right click on

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-04-07 Thread Aley Keprt
At 5:21 pm +0100 29/3/99, Psycho Billy wrote: How do you mean, PD yet?? Copyright will not expire, as such, until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. Sorry pedant ;-) - I meant has Colin declared any issues PD, and if not, why not? There can't be much sales volume in issues 1-50

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-30 Thread Ian Collier
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:47:13PM +, Andrew Collier wrote: How do you mean, PD yet?? Copyright will not expire, as such, until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. [1] Or was it 75?[2] Actually it is 70 years after the author's death. Wouldn't that be nice? I was going to

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-30 Thread Andrew Collier
At 5:21 pm +0100 29/3/99, Psycho Billy wrote: How do you mean, PD yet?? Copyright will not expire, as such, until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. Sorry pedant ;-) - I meant has Colin declared any issues PD, and if not, why not? There can't be much sales volume in issues 1-50

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-30 Thread Darren
IIR It ended up with Saturn Software - who basically said blow it and passed it to George Boyle David L -Original Message- From: Psycho Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 March 1999 16:27 Subject: Re: Forlorn plea... Thanks for using NetForward

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-29 Thread Psycho Billy
Hello - I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. Which is a bit of a surprise. Hang about... Sam2Sam was *your* magazine, wasn't it?? How can there be any more issues than you know about, did you compile them in your sleep or something? Gave the rights to another

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Andrew Collier
Hello - I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. Which is a bit of a surprise. Hang about... Sam2Sam was *your* magazine, wasn't it?? How can there be any more issues than you know about, did you compile them in your sleep or something? Any news on previous issues of FRED?

RE: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Andrew Collier
At 2:21 pm + 25/3/99, Aley Keprt wrote: [Gavin Smith wrote:] Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks from my floppyless iMac... You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad/dsk on

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Collier wrote: [Gavin Smith wrote:] Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks from my floppyless iMac... You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad/dsk on it. You can

RE: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Si Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: (As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. There can only be one associated application to handle a double click, but there's no reason why we can't use a shell extension DLL that adds one or more items to the context menu when you right click on a

RE: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-25 Thread Aley Keprt
And one other thing - why not start converting nvg files to .dsk format seeing as it is just as easy to use on a PC, and yet can also be back-written onto a SAM format disk. Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks from my floppyless iMac... Gavin You