jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) (08/23/89)
First off, the announcement of the //gs with the new ROMs is a bit of a disappointment - yeah, I know Apple didn't even say anything about a truly faster machine, but 2.8Mhz isn't quite in line with the rest of today's machines. Yes, my //gs is running at 7Mhz, but that's with an accelerator - I think that should've been the base speed, and my machine (with a speed-up card) should be somewhere >10Mhz. None of this is particularly fact & logic based, just mostly wishful thinking... As for the second part of the Subject: line goes, I posted some things to comp.binaries.apple2 shortly before I left for Europe, and I have no idea as to public reaction to them (if there was any) here on the net. The items in question are: BRAM.Shk - A utility for those folks who have //gs' with dead batteries; CDAADB.Shk - A CDA for viewing AppleWorks Classic DataBase files; SmoothFade.S.Shk - Some source & a wimpy demo for my proportional fader. I'd like to hear from anybody who did anything with one of those things, either by email (if you deem that it wouldn't be of particular interest to the net), or by posting. Speaking of public reaction to my stuff - how many people out there that write ShareWare get paid for it? I've gotten $4 for my animated watch (which is FreeWare, so I was somewhat suprised to get anything for it), and I've gotten $5 for the AppleWorks DataBase viewer - let me see, I worked for 14 hours writing that (pretty much continously - that was a one-shot program), and $5/14=$.35. So, for that program, I've gotten paid 35 cents an hour. Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy programming, but it seems a bit unfair that someone completely unskilled at pretty much everything can get paid 10 times that much flipping burgers at McDonalds... I do do contract programming, and it tends to be just a wee bit more lucrative - I'm curious as to what people think about this. It seems that people that I talk to like my programs, but getting patted on the back (although nice) isn't quite compensation for the tufts of hair I've ripped out of my head while debugging. I've got some interesting stuff lined up (a hypermedia [probably hypertext for first release] help system, a language independent object oriented programming system, some other things), all ready to be coded, but I'm wondering if I should bother using general release anymore, or if I should go completely commercial... Gak, looking back on this paragraph looks like a ShareWare suicide note. Oh, well, in a way I suppose it is. -- --------8<------------------------------------------------------------8<-------- jason@madnix.UUCP "I am opposed 180 degrees" - George Bush, master mixer of metaphors. (Is the IInix mailing group still out there?)