[misc.handicap] Isos

Tim.Lawrence@f432.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Lawrence) (05/16/91)

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[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.

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Al.Hoffman@p0.f143.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Al Hoffman) (05/16/91)

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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.

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