RE: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Geoff Wicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Soft

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-18 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: Roy Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House > I have always given PEK (Pointer Environment Kit) away for free with > Easyptr. I do not think I have ever sold a copy of QPTR. > -- Indeed it all comes back

RE: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
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Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> >> QLib/EasyPTR allows you to make some professional looking programs. It's > >> just a pity that the latter is such a b*gg*r to learn. > > Have you seen the (excellent) tutorial that was published in Quanta and I > think is available on Dilwyn's web site, on using EasyPTR ? > I thoroughly reco

RE: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Geoff, You wrote : >> QLib/EasyPTR allows you to make some professional looking programs. It's >> just a pity that the latter is such a b*gg*r to learn. Have you seen the (excellent) tutorial that was published in Quanta and I think is available on Dilwyn's web site, on using EasyPTR ?

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-13 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House > > George Gwilt writes: > > > > I have had some useful feedback from Geoff Wicks but from few others (if > > any!). Anyone who has suggestion

RE: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
George Gwilt writes: > TurboPTR, available from the SQLUG website and from Dilwyn's, is intended to > allow programmers to use SuperBASIC to write PE programs. This system also > allows these programs to be compiled by Turbo, which considerably speeds them > up. > > I have had some useful feedba

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-13 Thread P Witte
George Gwilt writes: > TurboPTR, available from the SQLUG website and from Dilwyn's, is intended to > allow programmers to use SuperBASIC to write PE programs. This system also > allows these programs to be compiled by Turbo, which considerably speeds them > up. > > I have had some useful feedba

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-12 Thread Geogwilt
In a message dated 11/06/02 09:58:45 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that to start the ball rolling, we need someone to take on the reins of easyptr - bring this up to date and possibly enhance it to create the bare bones of a SuperBASIC procedures to call the menus at least

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-11 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 at 04:55:56, wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >I agree with per that we desparately need new full blown applications, >- Tarquin's web-browser and Jim's QdT are both heading in the right >direction and I hope that they will soon be released, whether as >commercial program

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-11 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> > Software in the QL community has a much longer life than the Windows > >world, where using a program 2 years out-of-date is considered a sin. In my experience, the PC scene changes so radically in 2 years (not always for the better) that software stands little chance of still working 2 years

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-11 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> It is surprising, that out of 164 subscribers to the list, there is only a > small percentage who appear in my customer database (excluding fellow > traders). There is a simple answer to this, which I worked out back in DJC days. The type of person who subscribes to this list on the whole (by

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-11 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 11/06/02 01:42:10 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What we need, I think, are new applications - and/or improvements to existing ones - and programs that address the fact that the world has changed considerably since the final collapse of the QL software market (app

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-11 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 at 18:30:50, Timothy Swenson wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >I kind of jumped in the middle of this thread before I really read any >of the messages, so I'm sort of guessing a bit about the on going >conversation. I'm assuming that part of the discussion is about the >

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-10 Thread Timothy Swenson
I kind of jumped in the middle of this thread before I really read any of the messages, so I'm sort of guessing a bit about the on going conversation. I'm assuming that part of the discussion is about the lack of new programs coming out for the QL, esp. commercial ones. One thing that I find

Re: [ql-users] Plight of a Software House

2002-06-10 Thread P Witte
Rich Mellor writes: > I have just been having a look through the list of subscribers to this list <> > As for those others, what a software house, such as mine, needs to know is > why you are not customers. I appreciate that not everyone on this list > purchases commercial software, and certai