Lovely!
Just had a chat with the Manager who looks after Disgo - he doesn't know
what show of the low-end stuff is left since the Dixons/Spectrum Emulator
deal was done, so he'll get back to me. He also mentioned that if we ordered
over 100 units, he could get then branded with any logo we want on them, so
either the QUANTA logo of SINCLAIR QL in the infamous Sinclair font maybe?
If you must!
Don't have to come to any quick decisions, but worth finding out. Bear in mind that buying up cheap disgos might be one thing, finding time/person to do a good software package might be less easy and take longer!Nice thing to own for nostalgias sake..
I think it's a great idea, but may be worth shopping about anyway; Roy? Do
you do USB drives?
Yes, it's in the Psion programs page IIRC (not sure how I ended up putting them there). Along with Quill, Archive, Abacus, Easel and the QL Games cartridge. I think these are configured mostly for microdrive in the versions on the website, but a simple FLP_USE MDV or stuffing them through DP's Transfer Utility or the CST Convert_exe should fix that. http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/psions/psions.htmlThere is a QLDEMO thingy in the quanta library, though it probably needs
updated... Esp. for high colour.
Err, to be honest, I'd rather leave GD2 out of this, especially if using
QLay 2 or another emulator not supporting high colour. In the spirit of
this, the people it's meant to appeal to are retro and nostalgia people, so
closeness to an original QL might be th eorder of the day.
Then the QLDEMO is probably perfect, didn't you have it on your website? The
one that shipped with the QL originally?
What I can't remember is if this was a simple basic program or what, probably worth looking into how he did it.IIRC, Ron Dunnett used to have something similar on his Qubbesoft PD
Library disks. And Ian Bruntlett many years ago produced something to make
disk front ends (the name B0Peep springs to mind, not sure if it was that
or something else).
Yes - Ron's was very well laid out. He had a system of only putting 10
programs on each disk, regardless of how much spare space was left. The 10
program names were displayed and could be highlighted and run - was nicely
laid out on the screen too and a doddle to use.
I was part joking, as I have 64MB and 128MB units already, but there was a
serious side to my comment to try to convey the fact that I'd already
convinced myself this was a good idea if someone could be persuaded to put
together an emulator+free software+front end+instructions package.
I know:-)) Put still it's a good idea and worth looking at by several of
us... I know Steve Reyal and I saw some 8Mb Disgos at a Computer Show in
Tottenham Court Road in London about 2 years or so ago for only £1 each, but
didn't think of the QL usability!! Pity, the guy had a box full, probably
could've had them all for 20 quid.
:-)
Dilwyn Jones
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