[openbeos] Re: A joke ?
- From: Steve Vallée <svallee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:49:29 -0800
But hey. Now the wounds are healed, I can remade it for OpenBeos. It can be
to the OBOS what Solitaire is for Windows !
Forget about the kernel stuff ! Mille Bornes is our priority #1 for now on
! :-)
- Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Vallée" <svallee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 7:44 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: A joke ?
> Mille Bornes ... Yes it's me. And I still have nightmares about it.
>
> That night (3 am) I just fixed the last bug for a R3 version. I go to bed
> and in the morning ... my hard drive was totally screwed up. I felt my
heart
> getting out of my chest : the only copy of my source code was gone. I was
> only able to save my last binary build, and in order to release it, I had
to
> hack directly into the executable to change my testing values (just 2
cards
> in the deck, had to hack it to return to the 102 cards, etc. ). Then I
> released it for BeOS R3. Two weeks later, the bomb : Be Inc will release a
> BeOS R4, that is not binary compatible with R3... yeah !
>
> Since then, I never got the patience to remade from scratch my code. I
know
> it's a pretty small program, but re-programming something exactly the same
> I've done few days ago... urg...
>
> But I gain something precious : a strong compulsivity to multiply source
> code backups ... :-)
>
> - Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vandermark, Jason" <jvandermark@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 7:32 PM
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: A joke ?
>
>
> > Is this the same Steve Vallée that create Mille Bournes for BeOS R3????
> > If so please contact me offline as I would love to continue your work
> > and get it working for R5. You can email me at maverick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason "Maverick" VanDerMark
> > OBOS Input_server Lead
> > Proud BeOS(and soon OBOS) User
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Vallée
> > Sent: Sun 1/20/2002 1:37 PM
> > To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc:
> > Subject: [openbeos] A joke ?
> > OK, maybe I'm the last one in the world to know that, so please don't
> > flame me if I'm sooo off time about it.
> >
> > I just found this french web site :
> >
> > http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2002-01-20#1983
> >
> > talking about the BeOS 5.1 (not 5.0.1), the one we seen screen shot in
> > osnews.com and that was supposed to be used internally by Be Inc at the
> > end.
> >
> > But they have the binary (69 mb) to install it at :
> >
> > http://snotling.free.fr/
> >
> >
> > - Steve
> >
> >
> >
>
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