Re: Apple II Sound.. sponsor the project!

[Philip Lamb <p.lamb@student.canterbury.ac.nz> (Philip Lamb, UoC-ChCh-NZ)]

Scott.Alfter@skunkworks.genesplicer.org (Scott Alfter) writes:
> Philip Lamb  <p.lamb@student.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>>A couple of important points here. While Michael Mahon's source code was the
>>basis for IISound, I largely rewrote it to allow it to run over auxiliary
>>memory, which is quite a sibstantial change.
> 
> Was it?
Yes it was.

> The loader is trivial to implement.
For you it may have been. Your code, which I have seen is not very well
written. It has no file dialogue box. It does not load multiple sounds. It is
command line driven.

> Likewise, dealing with multiple sound formats is trivial
No it is not. If it is so trivial, why didn't you do it?

> I was thinking of pointing out that there are hundreds of software packages
> infinitely more complex than yours (or mine, for that matter; Emacs and
> Linux come to mind as examples) that are freely available
Complexity is not the issue. Citing emacs and linux is ridiculous, these
programs are large collaborative efforts for unix, not a one man work for the
Apple IIe

> I don't write code to make money;
Neither do I. I am not in it for profit. I released IISound as shareware
because I cannot afford to write for the IIe for free. Neither can you
obviously, as you have been sitting on your hands for a while. I can't see why
you can't just live with the fact that this is the way it is. 

>> I just cannot afford to work for the goodwishes of II users alone.
> Why not?
It is pretty darned obvious why not. Because I am a busy person doing a full
University course and time spent on computing projects that are not really
going to benefit me much has to be paying time. You may have hours and days to
while away, I do not.

> If I were Michael
> Mahon (or if you had started with SoftDAC code), though, I'd be more than a
> little peeved.  As things stand now, I'm still a bit annoyed, but more for
> "philosophical" reasons than anything else.
You are not Michael Mahon, and shouldn't claim to speak for him. As I have
already said several times, and as is stated in the IISound docs, which you
undoubtably haven't read, Michael's code is PUBLIC DOMAIN, he personally gave
me permission to use it in IISound, and to charge a Shareware fee. Your code
doesn't play a part in it, apart from being Michael's inspiration. I say, just
butt out, Scott. The ball is out of your park. It doesn't concern you. Go back
to your GS and leave IIe users who want to see new IIe software alone. 

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