Bernie, I get the picture .. ARGHHHHH!!!! But the apparent problem is that all these "anti-doze" developers *Don't* *Get* *It* Dozerware is dozerware because everyone was forced to fit their software into a mold that would perform to Win specs, using Win structures and Win commands. The developers of Qube are talking about doing precisely the SAME thing! Which is IMNSHO dumbDumb DUMB! One reason I mentioned DESQview before, and will mention it again, is that DESQview didn't require any program running under it to do anything except be itself. If I ran Wordstar, I didn't have to use some sort of DESQview overlay "for the sake of uniformity and ease of learning." I could simply run WordStar. Qube could easily jump into popular use if the developers would stop talking about "writing software" and simply write an interface that would allow "installation" of programs already on the user's HDD, or any DOS software. Of course to be any competition for dozerware, it would also have to have built-in software to handle the time slicing among multiple windows. And that should, of course, be configurable by the end user [if desired] GUI is really not worth much if it doesn't allow you to interface with the programs of *your* choice ... that is where DV had it over M$, and where any "desk top" or "graphical engine" needs to go. No one can win going head-to-head with Microsoft ... ask the Feds if you don't believe me. The idea must be to circumvent/circumnavigate M$ and do a better job of it. All the major "windows required" programs started out as DOS programs, and what do you want to bet that the developers would *gladly* drop back to cleaner, tighter DOS code if there was a way people could use it? l.d. ==== On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:17:10 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW: Please remember that you can't write an AI as good as the professional > ones in only a few days, I'm talking from experience :/ And design the > entire gameengines interfaces before starting to code, it's worth it - but > very boring. >> Don't you have separate mailing lists for people who want to watch stuff >> get developed but never get to play with it along the way??? > But you can play with it. It's just not useful yet, and I doubt it ever > will be :( -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
