> > > Okay, I am happy to agree that a Hard disk would be nice, and I would > > possibly consider buying that, if I could afford it. What I probably would > > not buy, are things like the Quazar Surround Sound. > > Oh dear, thats not a nice thing to say.... > > Taking all that has been said into consideration,I feel that people > are let down / annoyed when there is NO SOFTWARE SUPPORT for new bits > of hardware, taking the kalideoscope, many people purchased that, but > what software was there? The only thing i've seen was a routine on > SAM PRIME issue 3, apart from that i dont even know if there was anything > else.
Hey! I just remembered! That was my routine! (If we're thinking of the same one) The whole point of writing that was to try to get other people using Kaleidoscope, as I was trying to show how it could be done from m/c and also from BASIC, using the little driver routine that was the main part of the demo. Trouble was, SAM PRIME didn't (doesn't?) go out to very many people... > As said before, how many people knew how to use the kalideoscope properly? The little manual thingy (bit of paper, really) that came with it, plus the example programs did explain which ports did what, though to the novice it wouldn't have meant very much. It was simplicity itself to alter a few colours permanently to get "just the right shade" of whatever colour you wanted. As for changing colours part way down the screen, it was pretty much the same as you ordinary line interrupt colour changes. And the good thing was that if you didn't have the board plugged in, there was no effect at all, so it didn't introduce any incompatibility. Shame nobody ever wrote anything decent for it, but it was fun to build. Nige -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "You've got to look at it from a fork's point of view." (Steve Matthews) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
