grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) (10/16/90)
From article <2669@dali>, by icsu8053@ming.cs.montana.edu (Craig Pratt): > > All in all, I don't think I'd call Atari1 an emulator - not even close to the > level of the Mac emulators. It's just an interesting/illegal hack job. > More novelty than utility. Oh well, at least Amiga users can run Opus now, > at half speed. (No, I didn't give him a copy) Thanks for the info on the Atari1 emulator, Craig. I think I might wait a while before dumping my ST for an Amiga. :-) > > BTW, George Harrison, are we going to see a new version of Opus soon? > Doug Harrison actually, but don't worry, I make this sort of mistake too. The last time I was in contact with him, he'd put his plan to write a completely new spreadsheet on hold. He wasn't sure there'd be a market for it, and he was waiting to see how successful the TT would be. From that, I guess we can take it that the new program will be either a long time coming or won't arrive at all. As far as I know, Doug hasn't done any more work on Opus since v2.2 (2.3 for shareware contributors). Shame, as it's a fine program except for a few niggles (having to press the f9/f10 keys to enter labels/formulae, etc.) Doug didn't want to do more work on Opus because some of the changes he wanted to make involved getting very deep into the code. He said that since he'd learned about the vagaries of GEM through writing Opus, he'd sooner start again and do the job properly. Perhaps he could be persuaded to do something if enough people asked him. He's been writing programs for CodeHead Software recently, so you could reach him there or (I think) at the address in the Opus info box. Also, he's on CompuServe: address your queries/requests to 72277.2315@compuserve.com Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma BITNET: grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk@UKACRL INTERNET: grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: grahamt%syma.sussex@ukc.uucp PHONE: +44 273 686758 FAX: [..] 685865