Malcolm Cadman wrote, On 3/09/09 21:34:
In message <9933d6f1bbfb40ae82bea841c0692...@dilwyn3hkh9x94>, Dilwyn
Jones <[email protected]> writes
Hi Dilwyn,
You are still quite a prolific programmer for the QL ... :-)
I think we all spent hours and hours with programme listings in the
various magazines.
Indeed. I used the Chas Dillon archive file rescuer program in the very
last bumper QL User. They used up all their filed material, and
apparently, according to Chas, did not pay for it.
His program was full of typos, and plain wrong coding. I did though
finally get it working. However my archive programs had to move to PC
Xchange for index size reasons. This was of course still Psion based,
and the file corruptions continued. All these problems stopped with
Arcplus - a terrific clone endorsed by Psion. I still use it under a
DOS emulator (DosBox) under Mac OS X. It runs all my business databases
after 24 years, and I am still finding bugs (8-)#
I have kept all of my Sinclair / QL magazines, yet have gradually
disgarded or passed on the many PC titles that have been available
over the years.
I guess someone must have kept a massive collection of computer
magazines ... :-)
These days I am only sometimes tempted with a PC magazine that has a
good DVD of software or a particularly useful article or two.
Most of the DVD's are now also using a web page based format too.
If you read the last PCW editor's web blog you will see this is
*precisely* why it died. Once they offered the *free* DVD they couldn't
stop it, and it ate their reducing profit.
Tony
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