Tim.Lawrence@f432.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Lawrence) (05/16/91)
Index Number: 15672 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] RZ>I have not used RZ>isos on my machine as I have this locked Artic board. That is Roy, I talked with Ned Johnson on the phone the other day, and asked him if his program would worked with Artic, and he said it would. It would require the sonix package to make it work however. While I had him on the phone I also asked him how he was able to make Isos work with Prodigy. His answer was that it was magic, and that I just should except that it worked. Then I said that magic was just science not understood, and asked him again. He said that he couldn't tell me how he did it. Wel then I said that I was a programmer too and understood that we have our secrets of how we were able to make a certain program work a certain way, and that I didn't really want to know how he was able to make Isos work with Prodigy from a programming stand point. I just wanted to know if he was using some kind of technique to read Prodigies graphics screens. Well his answer again was the same, he said that he really couldn't answer that. Well my opinion on this is that I don't think Isos is actually reading the screen, and interpreting the graphics. I think that the program is probably reading from the com port, and then translating it in to speech. Now the only reason that I'm going on about this is that I'm afraid that some people will automatically assume that because Isos works with Prodigy it might work with other graphical application's. By Ned not saying rathere or not he's translating graphics in to speech, he's letting some people assume that he is. Regards Tim. * EZ 1.33 * To do nothing, is to do something. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!109!432!Tim.Lawrence Internet: Tim.Lawrence@f432.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Al.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Al Hoffman) (05/16/91)
Index Number: 15688 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] Has anybody seen this ISOS really work with Prodigy? I am interested, and there are several methods for accomplishing the task, just that they are all a big pain in the programmer. I spoke with some techno-people at Prodigy Development Headquarters and got some information, but not enough. Maybe the developer of ISOS has worked with them as well? Anyway, thats a pretty crappy answer, "we can't tell you, its magic." I would always reply that I'll send you some magic money for your magic program. If this guy is so magical he should be able to give out the program for free, heck he should be able to do so many magical programming tasks that this would be a minor feather in his monitary magicianship. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!109!143.0!Al.Hoffman Internet: Al.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.org