Re: [ql-users] Geoff's departure

2003-08-07 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Interesting. Can someone explain why it is that whenever there is a crisis in the QL community everyone goes into nostalgia mode? I would be more impressed if more people were looking forwards than backwards. After all, as Per wrote about my ill chosen

Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since the location seems to benarrowed down to 2 places and the traders would likely go either place a survey should be done among QLers to see if one place could produce significantly more attendance than the other. The survey should ask for definite

Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)

2003-07-18 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not flaming you by any means! Glad to see you taking such interest in the QL. Thank you, and thanks to those that responded. I had, semi-consciously, in my mind been comparing the QL software scene to, say, the Commodore 8-bit scene, where it's hard

Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)

2003-07-17 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For me,t he decisoin to have most software as paid programs stems from a single question: What holds the QL community still together? And my answer is that I believe that it is the traders. This makes a lot of sense to me, actually.

Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)

2003-07-17 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, the problem now is who is going to do it, and not only that, but MAINTAIN it. Its all very well putting it up to being with, but it would be a dead loss if not updated very regularly. I have sinclairql.{net,org,com} registered now. I'll be

QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)

2003-07-16 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will you be releasing this as freeware or shareware, or as a commercial product? Mark Commercial (price undecided yet) and a demo version: useable, but limited by the number of program icons which can be set up. Please do NOT flame me. I mean

Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)

2003-07-16 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: uQLx supports TCP/IP via the host for ages now and so is Q40 Linux (Q40 is a QL compatible www.q40.de in case you don't know). soQL is practically ready (for even vanilla QLs thanks to Jon Dent) and also a port of QL-uwIP for also vanilla QLs (and

Re: [ql-users] Turbo working on QXL?

2003-07-16 Thread Mark Martin
Quoting gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nice to know the card is set up in your machine. I suspect the Turbo problem is because you are using SMSQ-E, which did give problems with Turbo and some Turbo programs, although I had the impression that these were now fixed. I just started tinkering with