Hi there, I'm finally back from the England-trip and settled again at home. It was pretty much fun and I had a good time talking to people. Though I must say that it was probably my last England trip for a while because traveling gets increasingly expensive and this one again has cost me a small fortune (unfortunately sales don't even cover halve of it).
Anyway, it was still very enjoyable. To get some stuff off my chest, here's a personal news post with some miscellaneous information from me. QPC price --------- For those who have missed the all-time-low price we offered QPC for at "QL is 21", don't fear: to honour the QL's 21 birthday we have permanently reduced QPC's price to 60 EUR. That's a 40% cut, so I hope it is some inclination to finally jump on the bandwagon for the few remaining QPC-less souls out there ;-) As a matter of fact, to not punish any user for having bought QPC earlier, this price has been valid for a few months now, we only now go public with it. Upgrade prices have been reduced accordingly. SMSQ/E 3.11 for QPC ------------------- You'll probably have noticed that there was no SMSQ/E 3.11 for QPC so far. There are 2 reasons behind this: 3.11 is mostly a maintenance release for all platforms OTHER than QPC, because it consists of numerous fixes that have been submitted by me to Wolfgang when I re-synchronised my sources with the official ones. The second reason: I've gained much too much experience over the years than to do hurried last-minute releases. It's usually more trouble than good. Anyway, people wanting to finally get started to use Wolfgang's cool Home-Directory thing will be served soon. But I'd like to sort out some stuff first. New QPAC2/Qascade ----------------- These two have also been amended by me to take advantage of the HD-thing. Release will follow soon. Let me also thank Thierry for updating FileInfo2, this was the essential missing bit in our whole endeavour! Aurora-GD2 ---------- This is now free and its source-code will be delivered along the official SMSQ/E sources. This also removes the problem of having 2 gold card versions. New-PE ------ The latest releases of the PE for QDOS had numerous problems due to version conflicts in the source files. I have spend some time fixing those, and it seems to work fine again. But not having heard (m)any complaints I guess nobody really uses them anymore anyway. Finally some "classic" ---------------------- Simon Goodwin's talk at "QL is 21" has inspired me to do something. The first version actually already was capable of booting while I was still staying at Jochen's home :-) I did it just for fun and it's probably pretty useless, but have a peek at the result yourself: http://www.kilgus.net/images/qpc-classic.png Okay, I hope I haven't forgotten anything. All the best, Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
