11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) (01/12/89)
Hello, Thanks for many notes which you sent me. He mailed me a copy of ASpice package the last minute. I now have an Aspice. I now am looking for ASpice source code. Is its source code avaliable for Amiga systems? At FTP? Etc.. Why does the most developers not want hand to anyone their source codes personally?? I do not agree that! Without source code, it may be bigger and bigger problems with new OS releases. :( With source code, if new OS release come, I can re-compile them quickly without waiting for next new release for new OS release. -- Tim Stark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Don't send your mail through UUNET site because it is a black hole. Use UCBVAX or RELAY.CS.NET gateway to send mail to gallux.gallaudet.edu. Thank! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Timothy Stark | Bitnet: 11tstark@gallua.bitnet Gallaudet University | Internet: 11tstark@gallux.gallaudet.edu P.O. Box 1453 | "Gallaudet University is the only university for Washington, DC 20002 | the deaf in the world." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) (01/13/89)
In article <8901120052.AA26145@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, 11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) writes: > Without source code, it may be bigger > and bigger problems with new OS releases. :( With source code, if new > OS release come, I can re-compile them quickly without waiting for next > new release for new OS release. But, Tim, when folks follow the rules that the OS folks have estabished, and used "standard" system functions, the OS folks USUALLY manage to establish backward compatibility with previous software with no need to recompile anything. So your "OLD" software should, if rules were followed, run under the new OS. "NEW" software, on the other hand, is usually free to use new services provided by the new OS, and has the right to specify (or perhaps lets say demand) that the user acquire the new OS in order to run in the first place. Of course, the smart developer makes sure that his software is backwards compatible with what is most likely to be the most widely distributed version of the "old" OS software and only use the new calls if the program can detect that it is indeed running under the new OS. So even if you have a NEW OS, you may still have the OLD source code (since you feel you are not willing to wait), so YOU have to fix the problems, and not the developer... so it won't be a quick recompile after all. SO, if the rules are followed, most of the time (other than to learn from or to have a warm fuzzy feeling) there is no need to have the source code in the first place. If you trust the developer and like what he has done, you probably don't need the source. Rob Peck
billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (01/14/89)
From article <8901120052.AA26145@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU:, by 11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark):
: Hello,
:
: Thanks for many notes which you sent me. He mailed me a copy of ASpice
: package the last minute. I now have an Aspice. I now am looking for ASpice
: source code. Is its source code avaliable for Amiga systems? At FTP? Etc..
: Why does the most developers not want hand to anyone their source codes
: personally?? I do not agree that! Without source code, it may be bigger
: and bigger problems with new OS releases. :( With source code, if new
: OS release come, I can re-compile them quickly without waiting for next
: new release for new OS release.
I would really like to see the source for this also... Not so much
because of anything I could do to it, but because I want to let it use my
68881. Larry Gutkowski has indicated he'll recompile it for me with the '881
hooks, but we need the source for that. I understand the source is *very*
large, but perhaps something could be worked out on floppy...
:
: -- Tim Stark
:
: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
: Don't send your mail through UUNET site because it is a black hole. Use
: UCBVAX or RELAY.CS.NET gateway to send mail to gallux.gallaudet.edu. Thank!
: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
: Timothy Stark | Bitnet: 11tstark@gallua.bitnet
: Gallaudet University | Internet: 11tstark@gallux.gallaudet.edu
: P.O. Box 1453 | "Gallaudet University is the only university for
: Washington, DC 20002 | the deaf in the world."
: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
--
-Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey
...tektronix!sequent!blowpig!billsey
Creative Microsystems Northwest Amiga Group At Home Sometimes
(503) 684-9300 (503) 656-7393 BBS (503) 640-0842jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) (01/15/89)
In article <1329@agora.UUCP> billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes: >From article <8901120052.AA26145@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU:, by 11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark): >: Hello, >: >: Thanks for many notes which you sent me. He mailed me a copy of ASpice >: package the last minute. I now have an Aspice. I now am looking for ASpice >: source code. Is its source code avaliable for Amiga systems? At FTP? Etc.. > > I would really like to see the source for this also... Not so much >because of anything I could do to it, but because I want to let it use my >68881. Larry Gutkowski has indicated he'll recompile it for me with the '881 >hooks, but we need the source for that. I understand the source is *very* >large, but perhaps something could be worked out on floppy... > >: >: -- Tim Stark > -Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey Er, please add me to that list. In fact I'd dearly love to get a copy of ASpice if someone can tell me who and how. -- Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one. {@_@} jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM the knight. Does the fair maiden ever {backbone}!gryphon!jdow win? Surely both the knight and dragon stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide? Better yet - she should get an Amiga and quit playing with dragons and knights.