In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gwicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Those of us who went to the Sinclair show in Norwich a couple of years ago >had a very strong impression that the Spectrum has not moved on to the same >extent as the QL. We saw stall after stall selling Spectrum hardware and >software that we remembered using in our Spectrum days. The only QL stall >selling similar vintage QL software was Simon Goodwins. I was about to write the same thing. The Spectrum has not 'moved on' or got 'up to date'. The scene is only stronger than the QL because people like playing the retro games (maybe because, given the age of the users, the modern ones are too hard for them to take in). It was obvious at that show that the QL was light years ahead of the Spectrum and equally obvious that we had no software to offer. There is not one piece of software for the QL that would tempt someone to get into the QL scene. > >> The QL >no longer has enough users to make commercial products viable, > >Just as Quanta has to change if it wants to survive, so too have the >traders. There is little a trader can do these days. Since I do not write software myself, and I am offered little new software, I am stuck. Take away the cash flow and I will have to fold at some point. I keep going because I still enjoy it and I want to support the people who have been my customers for 10 years or so. > >> Then there's the lack of USB and printer support. > >But just a provocative thought. Have you ever tried to connect a USB only >laptop to a parallel printer? PC World don't know the answer to that one, >but I do mainly because of my QL experience of looking for solutions to >problems, That is easy - there is a specific bale to do it or a USB port replicator. I have both even though my laptop has a parallel port.
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