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

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <1998040103265000.WAA00124@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>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.

   If Apple II users want a nice GUI, they can run GS/OS and all the
many GS/OS apps. Rewriting everything just to support some totally
incompatible thing bastardized from another platform is not going to
happen. Stick with writing things for the quite large installed base,
rather than hoping folks might switch to some secondrate counterpart.

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

   And to paraphrase a quote, Enthusiasm without works is dead. Stop the
cheerleading and actually start producing something. 

Nathan Mates
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