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- From: rhys@cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: HELLDIVER running with Win-OS2
- Message-ID: <11538@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 22:15:01 GMT
- References: <11535@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <V6mqwB2w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US>
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- In <V6mqwB2w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:
-
- >First of all, let me apologize for frothing at the mouth the way I did.
-
- :-) That's ok. Thank God 1992 is over. 1993 can only be better ... :-)
-
- >That sounds marvelous to me, and more than I could have asked for.
- >Currently, I have a batch file that calls uucico and then uuxqt. I run
- >it when I'm ready to dial up my smarthost, send my outgoing traffic, and
- >receive any incoming stuff that might be waiting. I could just add a
- >line to the beginning to run the flush-into-Waffle program, right?
-
- That's right. I already have most of Helldiver Send ported to Windows now -
- I just need to do the bits to put messages into the temporary directory and
- write the flushing program. Really easy really: just replace the call to
- "spawnvp" with code to write the data to the temporary directory and recompile
- with Borland C++'s EasyWin.
-
- >> A native OS/2 version is a long-range possibility, but until I get more
- >> disk space, more memory, and a compiler, it will remain vapourware. A
- >> Windows NT version is more likely in any event, because that is my currently
- >> planned upgrade path.
-
- >But you'll need at least as much disk space and memory for NT, won't
- >you? More, from what I've heard. Either way, you still have to buy it.
-
- Yes, but since I've got all the tools for Windows, I've decided to stay on
- that stream for a little while longer. I have nothing against OS/2 (except
- IBM's feeble attempt to gain a monopoly again :-) - just a decision based on
- the large amount of time and money I have invested in Windows and that Windows
- apps can (more or less in Helldiver's case :-) be run under OS/2.
-
- >This brings up a related question, one that will probably get me nicely
- >flamed by Helldiver users everywhere. But I'll ask it anyway. Why are
- >you giving Helldiver away for free? A program this slick and
- >sophisticated is well worth a modest registration fee -- and it wouldn't
-
- I am thinking about it for a future version of Helldiver, but until it is
- stable and the bug and wish lists reduce I don't feel right about it (heck - a
- shareware author with morals - what is the world coming too? :-) .
-
- Cheers,
-
- Rhys.
- --
- Rhys Weatherley, University of Queensland, Australia.
- rhys@cs.uq.oz.au "I'm a FAQ nut - what's your problem?"
-