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I know that response was meant as a jest, but I was being perfectly serious.Surely, if you are interested in selling a product, its up to you to show what it can do. If you leave it to the prospective buyer to try to work it out for himself you will end up losing sales. As I have never used SMSQ/E, I think I should be the LAST person to write a demo to show off its capabilities. Anyway, your suggestion is unworkable. Firstly, as I said, I no longer own any native QL hardware (that includes Gold card). Secondly, I'm not sure how I use QLAY to write anything that uses the SMSQ/E features that QDOS lacks. Perhaps you could enlighten me there? Even if that wasn't the case, there would be the learning curve to go through to find out how to use the high colour etc. All of which requires manuals etc.Yes it was. Although I had not realised that you wanted it to demonstrate the colour drivers too. The problem is that it is hard to do anything that really demonstrates it all given that there are some aspects which remain commercial property and cannot be released on demos. Most of the program demos need MENU_REXT loaded and that is a commercial release. You may wonder why this is but the answer is that it is programmable from BASIC and sold as such. The user would have to have a disk with the menu extensions on it and then he could load those but this would then mean it would have to be a QL User (and an up to date one) and that does not give a demo to the uninitiated. Perhaps the answer would be to sell the demo for the price of the menu extensions. If the user is happy with the demo he can then return his receipt and get that money back when he buys the full thing. This would mean two demos. One with the full QXL.WIN demo on it that is paid for and another, without them, which is free. How does that sound?
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Roy Wood
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