Re: The "user-developer gap" myth

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:20:13 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>     Well, there certainly has been a major gap between Apple II users and a
>few developers. On the other hand, most active developers get along fine with
>users.
>
>     Here is a listing of a few along with recent products/upgrades
>announced:

Unfortunately, over half your list is made up of people who aren't
developing Apple II stuff.

>Teodor Angeloff- Apple II Oasis v2.4
>Peter Koch- unix-based A2 emulator
>Andy McFadden- Nulib2
>Steven W. Mentzer- XGS/32 IIgs emulator
>Jonathan Schattke- AppleWin v1.11.B

All the above programs do not run on an Apple II.

>Ron Kneusel- DSK2FILE v5.7f

This program, although it does run on an Apple II, is mainly used by
people running programs on machines other than an Apple II.

>Eric A. Seiden (DAR Systems)- ProLine 3.1 
>Jesse Blue (NinjaForce)- Asimov2, NinjaForce Assembler
>Beverly Cadieux- Appleworks and ProSel updates
>Mike Westerfield (Byte Works)- GSoft BASIC v1.2.0

These are the only ones that I might consider "active" but even then,
they are either producing no new Apple II stuff or very little and I
hardly ever see any of them participating either here or on Delphi.
Mind you, Bev is probably the most active but I just don't see it as
I'm not on her mailing list.

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