Jawaid vs. GNO developers (was Re: Ian vs. The GS Community)

[irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <bazyarCx37qx.HJs@netcom.com>,
Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@netcom.com> wrote:
>irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt) writes:

>  I could have crushed you right here, but I told myself I would not
>engage in ad hominem, as you did.

You sir are engaging in ad hominem throughout this post.  Everything I say is
based entirely in pretty well-known facts, yet you accuse me of "viciously
attacking" you.  The truth hurts?

>>1) All the really good game programmers left years ago (Steve Chiang, 

>  What's your point?  I hope noone is expecting "Doom" here (and I
>doubt anyone is). It's just a nice improvement for the GS, and there

I've seen posts from two different people expecting Doom.  Trust me Jawaid,
you have people hyped up about this more than you may want.

[4 magic JSRs will make anything support the SS board]

Yeah, right.  Anything that displays images will have to at least have
two different sets of icons, etc to support SS modes, much like the 320/640
dichotomy now in existance.

[GNO/ME's not being updated]

>  Whether I do or do not work on GNO/ME, ever again, is none of your
>concern. You seem awfully concerned about how I spend my time, Ian, and I 
>can't for the life of me figure out why.

I'm concerned as both a user and developer for GNO.  I and Derek and others
have things that we'd love to get going on GNO and sell you more copies
and send you to the titty bar 7 nights a week and such, but you are simply
refusing to do any kernel work.  Quite frankly, this mystifies me.  Were I you
and people were willing to ship several killer apps if 2 or 3 kernel calls were
added, I'd have it done yesterday. 

>  Second, you've forgotten (or never bothered to find out) that the board 
>works with a regular Apple RGB monitor. Further, a good number of people
>already have PC monitors that they can use, or need to replace their
>failing Apple RGB monitors.

The board's high-resolution capabilities don't work with a standard RGB
monitor, and I should think that the best way for this board to justify
it's existance would be a nice WP or page layout app in at least 640x480 or
800x600.  Then, we could get some WORK done on the GS.

>  Ian, I don't know what your problem is, but if the only thing you can
>do for the GS community now is gripe about how stupid I am for working
>on a VGA card (it's not even _me_ that's paying for development, for
>Christ's sake!) that hundreds of people have expressed great interest in,
>then I certainly don't care to hear it, and I seriously doubt anyone
>else does, either.

Jawaid, my problem is that I have TMTerm 2.0 ready to go.  Derek has TCP/IP
ready to go.  And for want of a few kernel calls, they're sitting rotting
while potential and existing GNO/ME customers wait.  Quite frankly, we're
trying to do something nice for you, and you aren't having any part of it.
Wake up, Jawaid, and smell the increased income for Procyon.


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