[comp.sys.acorn] Many things

alm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Alexander L McLintock) (01/27/91)

Many things, so check the subjects down the side :

Nethack: well I guess it is so large that maybe posting was a dumb idea.
         If there is a 1 meg version I would very much like to see it
         though. Perhaps I could post a formatted *floppy* and return postage?

APDL : Thanks very much to RKL for all the wonderful software he has written.
       He deserves every penny he gets from APDL....
       I don't believe that all pd excludes libraries from making a profit,
       but some software does say so. The copywrite laws are mainly in 
       force to prevent someone from nicking (stealing) the code and 
       making money as if it was their own. I would like to see full
       copyright notices on all pd (especially fonts and pictures, of which
       I have nearly 25 discs) so that I know whether I can give a copy 
       to my friends or not. I was recently given alot of fonts as pd, but
       one called EFF_AG was included. This sounds like an Electronic Font
       Foundry font, so I am wiping it.

comp.binaries.acorn? My vote is yes, since it will end the discussion,
       but if it is already in creation, well done. ps I am very glad that
       I don't have to pay for the phone bill. I don't have a modem, or
       phone line, so I can't subscribe to World of Cryton, or Archive etc.
       Its great being a student , isn't it.

PD again : if anyone is searching for pd then mail me to see if I have it 
       I'll send you any pd I have for 1 pound sterling per disk,
       ( or if I am in a good mood then snailmail me  with return postage and
        formatted disks and nice sprites/gifs/fonts/strackers 
        that you KNOW are pd, with something saying so, and I'll 
        turn it around as soon as I get
        round to it. ) I am not trying to undermine any other library, 
        because my maximum output would be a couple of disks a day. I am a full
        time student, currently at college on Saturday afternoon, taking a break
        from writing a bl***y Pascal subset compiler.

Translator: Thanks very much to John Kortink. But did you have to change
         the filetype icons, I quite liked the old ones :-)

Adverts: I am going to place an 'advert' for a newish software house, who are
         looking for new programmers to program Desktop Applications, and/or
         games for the Arc. I am not an employee, but I did help out at a 
         computer show once. If anyone has any serious objections to this 
         then mail me now, and if enough people are annoyed at the idea
         then I won't post. 

RISC OS 3 : is being developed all the time as I understand it, 
         which is why there are so many version numbers (heard this third 
         hand). It is likely to be released as Risc Os four or five, in
         the far flung future. There is no point in bothering Acorn about
         it though. I am sure that they will give out the usual
         annoncements in due course. (I really know nothing about this
         for sure. It is all rumour) 

Sound Freaks : The (310) sound upgrade for bypassing the lowpass filter found
          in the soundtracker manual  sounds very good. You can hear alot
          of sounds missed, even with headphones. It does have a slight whine
          though which means that my Sound freeak friend (the one with the 
          MIDI,keyboard, sampler, and 2meg.) is going to build a 
          better filter to replace the one in the Arc. Has anyone else tried
          this? Do they know the best way of going about this?

The end:
I am sorry for any spelling mistakes, errors, ommissions. 

Please do not flame me (that includes you, Jason "I'm HIGH" O.), 
but I am willing to discuss anything.


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cs9h9tts@cybaswan.UUCP (t.simpson) (01/28/91)

In article <2790@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> alm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Alexander L McLintock) writes:
>        round to it. ) I am not trying to undermine any other library, 
>        because my maximum output would be a couple of disks a day. I am a full
>        time student, currently at college on Saturday afternoon, taking a break
>        from writing a bl***y Pascal subset compiler.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Me too!, fun ain't it ?.. I just got a Parser (of sorts) working.  Gotto admit,
couldn't have done it without Arc,C and flex (don't like UNIX implementations)

PS : for all those who remember me slaggin off DP's flex, I've also gotto
admit, now I've got a nice 45Mb SCSI drive, it does work slightly better.

Tom : cs9h9tts@uk.ac.swan.pyr