[ql-users] Re: Re: Re: [ql-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1s t attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 at 18:31:04, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Personally, the lack of Internet access for the QL/Q40 is not an issue for me. I have a PC for most of my Internet use (dial up) and use the system at work for larger downloads (T-1). I look at the QL as a nice hobbiest

[ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread pgraf
Bill Cable wrote: I would also be willing to chip in some $$ also and it could possibly work in one of 2 ways. Either buy the rights to put SMSQ/E under the GPL or pay Peter to release his work under GPL for QDOS Classic or Minerva. This looks like a fundamental misunderstanding. I do not

Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Dave P
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a fundamental misunderstanding. I do not want any money for my work. A person who does not want money must want something more valuable. ;) Dave

Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Mar 2004 at 9:37, Dave P wrote: A person who does not want money must want something more valuable. ;) Value, like beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder... Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Peter Graf
Rich Mellor wrote: In a message dated 17/03/2004 15:17:06 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Cable wrote: I would also be willing to chip in some $$ also and it could possibly work in one of 2 ways. Either buy the rights to put SMSQ/E under the GPL or pay Peter to release his

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: Re: Re: [ql-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1s t attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Mind you the 300bps acoustic coupler modem is a bit limiting (8-)# It was Z88 like, but with a great keyboard, but poor screen. Acoustic coupler? Is that a modem that plays the sound through the telephone handset rather than plug into the phone line? I remember reading about that kind of thing

[ql-users] Blobs

2004-03-17 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Aftera recent comment on this list, I again tried (and failed) to get blobs and patterns to work in Easyptr programs. Anyone had any success and able to hint at where I might be going wrong? Files seem to get saved OK (I seem to be able to produce blobs and patterns) but things go wrong when I

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I would also be willing to chip in some $$ also and it could possibly work in one of 2 ways. Either buy the rights to put SMSQ/E under the GPL or pay Peter to release his work under GPL for QDOS Classic or Minerva. This looks like a fundamental misunderstanding. I do not want any money

Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Bill Cable
This looks like a fundamental misunderstanding. I do not want any money for my work. All the best Peter Sorry about that. I am always hoping for that elusive web capability for the QL one way or another. I have several computer related projects at home but none could possibly be done on

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-17 Thread Dilwyn Jones
This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to spend on QL development. How should they spend this money? In fact Quanta would have two possible ways of financially stimulating QL development. Major projects (SGC successor?) could be financed out of the capital. These

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have said that Quanta is heading towards a £1000 a year structural profit. I am also interested in how much Quanta has in realisable assets. The reason I ask, is that as has been pointed out, the pond is now a puddle

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Roy wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Alternatively, instead of forcing money he doesn't want onto Peter Graf, an alternative approach might be to buy into Q60 SMSQ/E maintenance, i.e. whoever is building and releasing the new SMSQ/E gets paid to produce a Q60

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to sp end! (1st attem...

2004-03-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/03/2004 20:40:47 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writesSNIPAlternatively, instead of forcing money he doesn't want onto PeterGraf, an alternative approach might be to buy into Q60

Re: [ql-users] Blobs

2004-03-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/03/2004 18:31:38 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aftera recent comment on this list, I again tried (and failed) to getblobs and patterns to work in Easyptr programs.Anyone had any success and able to hint at where I might be goingwrong? Files seem

Re: [ql-users] Hyperbrowser

2004-03-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 16/03/2004 18:54:50 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had looked at your browser efforts briefly as I was looking for a Help solution for QDT (haven't found one yet) and am still interested. Still would be interested in using it with some added

[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: Re: Re: [ql-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1s t attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 at 18:21:03, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mind you the 300bps acoustic coupler modem is a bit limiting (8-)# It was Z88 like, but with a great keyboard, but poor screen. Acoustic coupler? Is that a modem that plays the sound through the telephone handset

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: £ 0.00 to spend! (1st attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Mar 2004 at 18:28, Dilwyn Jones wrote: How much of SMSQ/E for Qx0 is modular and how much inbuilt (i.e. has to be rewritten every time a new SMSQ/E is released)? Nothing has to be rewrittenfor the Q60 (or any other machine) every time a new SMSQ/E is released, unless some changes are

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] Re: Re: Re: [q l-users] £ 0.00 to spend! (1s t attempt)

2004-03-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Mar 2004 at 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote: (...) You had to dial manually, listen for the tones, and fit the coupler. ... and the 'monitor' was a wide carriage IBM golfball printer. Those were the days (8-)# May they never come back! Wolfgang