Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread DAVID LEDBURY
--- Calvin Allett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good luck with the shows :) Can anybody tell me if Driver could run two programs at once, both two progs onscreen at once, running.. and also, with one task able to be not drawn but running.. NIce to see all the old names, and that people

Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew Collier
On Aug 31, 2004, at 9:51 pm, Calvin Allett wrote: Good luck with the shows :)   Can anybody tell me if Driver could run two programs at once, both two progs onscreen at once, running.. and also, with one task able to be not drawn but running.. You could have multiple programs resident, but

Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread Calvin Allett
I don`t know, hadn`t even heard of Driver version two `til Colin mentioned it to me... What`s Steve up to now?\ I kinda left the SAM scene in `94, but been actively loving SimCoupe for 3 yeas or so :)DAVID LEDBURY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Calvin Allett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Good luck

Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread Calvin Allett
SAM mines was cool, I remember it :) and just loaded up issue 57, and had a go with the Mouse (which I couldn`t do back then )... even better... I seem to remember you have different sized levels too... You mention Driver programming, do you mean coding in MC, for it, as hacks, addons.. or do you

Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread DAVID LEDBURY
I think he started work on it - but due to various reasons decided not to go further. I could be wrong however. David --- Calvin Allett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don`t know, hadn`t even heard of Driver version two `til Colin mentioned it to me... What`s Steve up to now?\ I kinda

Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew Collier
On Aug 31, 2004, at 11:01 pm, Calvin Allett wrote: I don`t know, hadn`t even heard of Driver version two `til Colin mentioned it to me... The first rule about version two, is that you do not talk about version two. The second rule of version two is that you do not talk about version two,

Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread Calvin Allett
MMMmm... all very mysterious... I thought Bob was outa the scene (if you can call it that) now... I`ll drop it :)Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 31, 2004, at 11:01 pm, Calvin Allett wrote: I don`t know, hadn`t even heard of Driver version two `til Colin mentioned it to me...The

Re: Shows... Driver abilities

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew Collier
On Aug 31, 2004, at 11:12 pm, Calvin Allett wrote: You mention Driver programming, do you mean coding in MC, for it, as hacks, addons.. or do you mean with it`s own language, or API, scripting some? There were a set of hooks which you could call from machine code. If you look at FRED issues