In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Chagouri-Brindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Malcolm Cadman wrote: >> <SNIP> >> >> I think that we have all been there, and "got the T-shirt" ... :-) >> >> If you are interested in computers / computing, then you tend to >> accumulate lots of them over the years. >> >Very true . . . sometimes I think I have too many and but then again, I >couldn't contemplate getting rid of any of them!!!
Yes, it is hard to let them go when you have got to know them well ... :-) >> At the moment the QL emulators are driving the software innovation, with >> more speed and functionality ( awful computer jargon word ). >> >> For example, I now use Tim Hunkins' QL Desk Top environment all the time >> with QPC2, along with Dilwyn's Launchpad suite too. To manage a QL >> system. >> >> When all set up it is easier, quicker, more fun, etc. >True, and although I will no doubt go down the emulation route at some >point, for me, personally at least, the original hardware still has its >place and so the two compliment each other - different types of fun, you >could say. Actually, it has been fun digging out my old machines to show >to my nephew currently studying Information Technology. That reminds me, >in spite of the Playstation Era, he too got hooked on Elite on my BBC B!!! Yes, the BBC B and Spectrum area was a kind of "golden age" ... I guess that is also why games side of mobile phones and the like is so addictive. >> The hardware is still interesting, and I appreciate that you are using >> the original hardware, and then expanding upon it. Which is still fun >> too. >> >> However, hardware innovation has been quiet of late. Hence the software >> side is more activate, and more talked about. >> >> >Indeed, and as has been said before, its a no-win situation: without the >hardware development, the software side stagnates and without software >development there is less incentive to develop hardware . . . oh well . . . Well, it still keeps us all busy ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
