Re: Exciting developments in Commodore world -- Ideas for GS dev?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>>There is more development for these units than for the GS!  Their new
>>OS can provide ideas for possible GS development.  I saw this in the
>>comp.sys.cbm newsgroup...
>
>   Ideas are a dime a dozen. What's needed is programmer time, effort,
>and an audience more receptive to new stuff than those who'll
>mindlessly gripe over a bug in the ROM code. I'd really recommend
>trading in any form of pompoms and other cheerleader-type crud and
>actually starting to work on something-- that's FAR more productive in
>the long run than vapor hardware and software ideas.

Well Nathan, I agree with you that programmers are needed and I
agree with you than complaining hurts development, but you missed
the reason for my question.

I was trying to determine how similar A2 GEOS is to C128 GEOS.
If A2 GEOS is, in reality, very similar to C128 GEOS in terms of
programming, then such an upgrade for the A2 version should easily
be possible in theory.

I'm not a programmer, so I can't get "starting to work on" this type
of project, but a diehard Commodore programmer (Todd Elliott) did
contact me in response to this question and verified that A2 GEOS
was indeed very similar to Commodore 128 GEOS from a programmers
point of view.

If we all act a little more upbeat about new ideas, there is a good
chance that these Commodore users and diehard programmers can
become A2 users and contribute their skills to A2 software.

Here is a link provided by Todd Elliot if you'd like to see what some
much needed enthusiasm can produce...

http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~telliott/phantasm.html

Don't forget that enthusiasm is one of the driving forces of a market
for software and hardware.