P Witte wrote: > Wlenerz had just told me that there were only *two* confirmed SMSQ/E > "developers" (modestly forgetting himself), namely you and (wait for it) - > me! (And I signed up mainly to help with the coffies and put the jelly beans > on the pizzas ;)
Then I'll have one pepperoni pizza please :-) Frankly, that's what I had expected. Perhaps one or two more. Of course, if we had "released SMSQ/E into freedom" instead of into the licence as it is, there would now be zillions of developers around and Wolfgang would have to register them 24 hours per day. NOT! > Of course there are other activities than kernel hacking that go > towards making the QL a better system and help to keep it up to > date, but I do get worried when people on this list talk about > improving Qlay and Qlem and this and that when theres so much to be > done and so few to do it. I've been ignoring the "please somebody develop YAE (yet another emulator) further because it's a free one" as I think nobody capable of this would spent one minute thinking about it (if it isn't already their own emulator, that is). If anybody wants a good old QL, take QemuLator. For the more advanced needs take QPC. Both are commercial for a reason, because it costs time and money to develop software like that. Yes, QPC is not the cheapest software on earth, I know that. On the other hand QPC is now in its ~9th year of development! I couldn't really devote that much time (we're talking thousands of hours here) without getting anything in return. At this point I want to say a big "thank you" to all of my customers out there. Without you buying QPC I certainly wouldn't now spent time on improving SMSQ/E for all platforms or e.g. working on small fixes in QPAC2 which I did just yesterday. So you see, by buying QPC you not only support QPC but my whole QL related development work in general. Thanks again to everybody who contributed financially and morally support. And for being the nice guys that make up that certain charm the QL scene has and certainly distinguishes it from most other scenes :-) > Currently were working on upgrading all the SBasic keywords in > SMSQ/E v 3.01, eg: > 100 DEFine PROCedure Test(text$) > 110 IF text$ = "": PER_SAYS_GOTO 200 > 120 WL_IS_THE_GREATEST_PRINT text$ > 130 MARCEL_REWROTE_THIS_BEEP 2, 2 > 140 .... Yes, that's true. And there's more evil to come. Muahahahaha. >:-> Marcel
