David Pilling wrote:
In message <4eebce211cgav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gavin Crawford <gav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writesWith reference to the other two replies that you have already received. These are yet more examples of RISC OS peopel living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. You made it quite clear in your comment above that much less time spent on a Windows add-on product would have brought in much more than the time spent on a RISC OS product. Do these people listen? No, they just go into the tired old routine of offering what is (to be frank) a ridiculous amount of money. £200? Don't make me laugh! Come into the real world. A contract probrammer can earn that much in a DAY quite easily (and could do so 10 years ago to my certain knowledge).not much on RISC OS though! I guess the time has now passed for the demand for such specialist software for the RISC OS market.cheap option I can recommend Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus from www.quite.com - it works as a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat and offers aPoints up some dilemmas for me - in other words one hundredth of the time spent on OP writing a plug in for something else might have produced a more viable product.
When consumers in the RISC OS world realise what it really costs to develop software, they might give up on the eternal "I would give £30 for this or £50 for that" refrain.Go for the big money in the Windows world (or anywhere else) David, and when you are earning a decent living please come back and help us out here. This is how most of the RISC OS world works at the moment.Few can hope to make a living solely out of work done purely for the RISC OS desktop market.
As far as we are told by the Castle conglomerate, the Iyonix is produced as a by-product of the set-top market. The A9Home is a sideline of a business which was set up to supply mobile computing in specific areas of need.
Little as some may like it, unless there is a major upset in the desktop market this is how it will stay forever.
-- Regards, Phillip MarsdenFor quality bespoke acoustic guitars phillip.marsden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
