> > On Feb 14, 2:31pm in "Re: Expansion? (was Re:Childline)", you warbled: > ] 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. > > Aha.... but the problem was that the K was shite...
Kind of. It did what it was supposed to do well enough. Doing anything more complicated would have made it even more expensive than it already was... > > ] And how many people actually know how they can use it themselves...? > > Me. And me. And anybody who could write Z80 and understood what I/O ports were all about, I expect. > Shame, since it cost so much, and took so much time. > > At least I know how to solder nicely now :) Yeah, it was fun to build, and it was designed (in part) as a bit of a h/w course, so I've got no complaints. Had the h/w course continues, then perhaps there might have been something useful tagged onto the back of it. > > Geoff > > Nige -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "You've got to look at it from a fork's point of view." (Steve Matthews) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
