Peter Graf wrote: > Hi, Hellow World (spot the C programmer) > If nothing in the QL scene changes, my project will continue slowly at my > own chosen speed, and the only platform to run on might be QDOS Classic, > for the simple reason that it is the only free QL operating system on the > Q60. Minivera is free (Phoebus is working on it), SMSQ/E is open source
> Time for an offer: I could possibly be persuaded to try and integrate my > drivers into SMSQ/E for the whole range of QL style machines, by a simple > act of wisdom: Place SMSQ/E under the GPL. (I have no problem to accept > modifications to allow QPC remain commercial.) Accept it bud, you lost (for now) ;-) > Arnould Nazarian wrote: > > >A few years ago (some might remember) I had a short discussion with the > >author of that arachne browser http://browser.arachne.cz > >The program is written in C only. An idea of pricing was 8000 USD, but > >IIRC he wrote to me that this amount could be lowered to 2000 USD if > >there were some royalties foreseen. I may go and visit him in Prague next > >summer to speak with him. > > I have partially ported the textmode browser RETAWQ until I got stuck witha > C68 related problem. Fast, small, even a "Q" in the name. How about > that, maybe with an integrated picture viewer? Cost: See above. > I should add that I personally don't give a dime about post-Tony-Tebby > SMSQ/E anymore. I can live with some QDOS Classic tinkering or let go the > QL completely. But there are a few folks that keep asking me, and it's > forthem that I make this offer. Now shoot at me or give it a serious > consideration - your choice. /me Loads pump action shoot gun Arnie style (Arnold the governor of California, not Arnold Clarke, though he probably does it quite well too :-). Four years a go I became a QLer and started writing a web browser on a emulator (QLay), but the PC I did this on no longer exists and the emulated environment limited development. So I decide to buy a QL system to continue development on, over £1000 later (cost mounting) and still no working system. This is why HyperBrowser development stalled, I even tried cross-development on M$ Windoze and Debian Linux. A refund plus damages, or small claims court action are looming. This all could have been avoid, but the ball has not been in my half of the court, so I could do nothing. -- Tarquin Mills Personal Profile http://uk.profiles.yahoo.com/emfturing
