In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Kett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>I think we have to face the fact that the QL is a dying breed - we're >>not going to get any new hardware due to costs, and new software is only >>going to be developed by those already developing software. Partly >>because of the cost of getting a 'modern' QL system and partly because >>learning how to program such a system seems to be very, very difficult >>due to a lack of tutorials or available documentation. >There are a lot of books on programming the QL in Assembler, BASIC and C >(although not the modern version) and many of these are available, 2nd >hand, from QUANTA, TF Services, Rich Mellor etc. These all stop short of >the modern system but would provide a grounding in the system. Good information is available for programming, with many books. The more recent features like the Pointer Environment and the extended colours are on top of that basis. >True, many articles in QL Today which demonstrate programming techniques >etc. are scattered throughout it's 11 volumes. I believe that all of >these still exist in electronic form so maybe there is some possible >mileage in gathering all of the articles of each series together and >either printing them off as a single volume or putting them on a CD as >PDF files. I have no idea how much work this would be but it would be >work so there would have to be a charge. Nevertheless it would be >worthwhile if it got some people writing software again. That would be a good idea. Some kind of compilation that brings together programming skills documented for Assembler, BASIC and C. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
