Si Owen: >Bob Wilkinson wrote: >> Thanks Edwin, but I have that version, it's the next release I'm >> waiting for, but it just seems a long time coming and some news >> would be welcome. > >It got archived away around New Year and was completely untouched until the >middle of last month. A few people were interested in it, so I apologise to >them, but it sounded like it was too much of a threat to the real SAM for >people to be interested in it. [....] I'm not really sure whether >people are still as anti-SAM-emulation as before - anyone want to speak up >on whether it should be buried for a bit longer?
I don't see emulation as a threat to the Sam. Actually I remember a similar discussion when XCoupe, as it was, was first written and released. Even Bob Brenchley, who (it could be argued) has/d an interest in the success of hardware sales, didn't vocally object to the emulator. >It was only last month that I unpacked it and started to do a bit more on >it... I've moved all the Win32-specific code out of the core modules, and >am keeping it clean of any conditional code to avoid the usual unreadable >conditional code soup. That's good news. I'll be interested to see this eventually. >If people are happy playing with unfinished, potentially buggy test >versions, I don't mind making them available as new features are added. I'm >up for handing out the source in its current state, on request, and would >welcome feedback and enhancements to it. Fine by me. That *does* satisfy the GPL, as long as you don't mind people redistributing the source code afterwards. >I'd also like to keep control of official releases of >it, and would prefer if there weren't unofficial versions floating about. >Any objections? Seems fair enough to me. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Can't think of a quote ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ ---- So I write haiku instead ----- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge --- That should do for now --
