On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 at 09:58:29, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: <004401c21a9a$e157ab20$28075cc3@default>)
>
>Tony Firshman wrote:
>>6) Seeing a pretty functional QDT alpha. It is going to be a
>> very essential addon to the QL. Pity Jim Hunkins is only coding
>> for SMSQ.
>This is why Launchpad is continuing to be written despite the obvious
>(to me) superiority of QDT. Launchpad will provide a GUI for QDOS
>systems too. I'm sure there's room for both. I think Jim is a little
>bit ahead of me if he has an alpha release going though.
Well it certainly looked like an Alpha.
There seemed to be an awful lot working, and not many 'not implemented
yet' messages. Even Jim's sprite editor was there, although I guess
that was one of the very early utilities.
It was nice to see it looking more like QPAC2 than Windows - even in
hires mode.
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