OT: Back to the future

2017-05-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Yum! https://archive.org/details/computer-programme A lot of what is said in these TV programmes is still relevant today. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

RevMedia and back-to-the-future

2017-04-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
I would like to install RevMedia (the free version) on my G5 iMac running Mac OS 105 but the licence seems to have expired. Any bright ideas on this? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread Richmond
Well; retro fans [i.e. Me, Myself and I . . . LOL], The G3 tray-loading iMac obviously could not be bothered to wait for my annual visit and expired sometime between August last year and 4 days ago: unbeknownst to my Mum and Dad; so, after removing VRAM, RAM, HD and CD-Drive + the odd rather

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: The G3 tray-loading iMac obviously could not be bothered to wait for my annual visit and expired Dear Richmond, May I pass on my sincerest condolences on hearing the news of the passing of one of this Lists most

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Kay- Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 8:53:08 PM, you wrote: May I pass on my sincerest condolences on hearing the news of the passing of one of this Lists most famous inanimate objects; second I think only to cheese, but of course that's never going to die, just grow old and blue mouldy. LOL

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/2014, 10:53 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: May I pass on my sincerest condolences on hearing the news of the passing of one of this Lists most famous inanimate objects; A grave event indeed. Rest in peace, Son of SIMM. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-03 Thread Richmond
On 03/08/14 05:46, hh wrote: snip It's content that counts, not the wrapping ... This is very much the case, plus the fact that most people in the world do NOT need the fastest Mac one currently buy despite the hype. I have a cousin who runs a sort of farm for socially and mentally

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:46 AM, hh h...@livecode.org wrote: Do you see what I mean? In general you may be right and I'm with you to have good new things. But sometimes there is also 'Much Ado About Nothing'. It's content that counts, not the wrapping ... Totally agree. Moore's Law may state

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-02 Thread hh
If I have to be really fast, I start the fastest Mac one can currently buy (I have it). Then I go to my 12 year old PPC running Mac OS 10.4.11 and start it. LC 10.5.2 was opened at startup, I write 10 lines of code, run them and I'm done. Then I go back to the fastest Mac one can currently

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-01 Thread Richmond
On 01/08/14 05:53, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: However, has anybody any idea about 6.6.2 on Mac OS 10.3 I thought Ben put out something a while back asking for community reaction to LC 6.6 being the last version of LC to

Back to the Future.

2014-07-31 Thread Richmond
So: its time for Richmond's annual visit to his Mum and Dad and . . . his tray-loading G3 iMac that runs Mac OS 10.3 . . . --- Of course I will have a laptop running Zorin Linux for my coding pleasure with me on my trip. --- However, has anybody any idea about

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-07-31 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: However, has anybody any idea about 6.6.2 on Mac OS 10.3 I thought Ben put out something a while back asking for community reaction to LC 6.6 being the last version of LC to support 10.5. The community basically

Back to the Future

2013-02-23 Thread Richmond
Read this article a bit more carefully and feel it is extremely good in that it concisely describes pretty well all there is to say about Metacard circa 2000, and . . . . . . with a few modifications about Livecode in 2013.

Re: Back to the Future

2013-02-23 Thread Roger Eller
Awesomeness! Thanks for sharing this. Sent from my Pipo M2 On Feb 23, 2013 3:27 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Read this article a bit more carefully and feel it is extremely good in that it concisely describes pretty well all there is to say about Metacard circa 2000, and

Back To The Future with revreportsetup.rev

2012-11-09 Thread Richmond
Digging around, as one does, I found 'revreportsetup.rev in the Tools folder of RR 3.0 and opened it up in my current version (4.5) and, Lo! it worked; so, why has it vanished from the Toolset? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Back To The Future with revreportsetup.rev

2012-11-09 Thread Richmond
On 11/09/2012 12:19 PM, Richmond wrote: Digging around, as one does, I found 'revreportsetup.rev in the Tools folder of RR 3.0 and opened it up in my current version (4.5) and, Lo! it worked; so, why has it vanished from the Toolset? Richmond. AND, is anybody going to get Hot and Sweaty if

Re: Back To The Future with revreportsetup.rev

2012-11-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richmond, I think it was too limited and nobody wanted to spend resources on it to improve it. If you re-release it as a plugin, you might frustrate people who run into the limitations. What about creating an all-new plugin along the lines of 9to5 reports, but compatible with all current

Re: Back To The Future with revreportsetup.rev

2012-11-09 Thread Richmond
On 11/09/2012 02:02 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Richmond, I think it was too limited and nobody wanted to spend resources on it to improve it. If you re-release it as a plugin, you might frustrate people who run into the limitations. What about creating an all-new plugin along the lines of