#Diavolo Backup available
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David,
I have decided to lower the price of Diavolo. After the discussion here
and with some friends it seemed a reasonable thing to do.
Diavolo will now cost $64,- including CIS charge and mailing.
But I don't want to leave you and the others who have regsitered already
without a compensation. I can't refund you because the transaction would
most likely be far too expensive. And MagicMenu is freeware, so I cannot
even register that for you (the 68030er version has absolutely no
advantages to the 68000er version. I've tried that. See the benchmark text
included in the MagicMenu 1.29 package).
The upload and mailing of the executable of Diavolo costs $6 for me. So I
cannot grant free updates through compuserve. Normal updates will cost $6.
But for all those who have registered for $94, three updates will be free.
You can decide when you want to get the update. Additionally these
customers will receive the scheduler, which should be finished in about
two months for free.
Martin Korndoerfer, Bavaria, Germany
Also flying on AutoPilot
Martin:
I'm glad you decided to lower the price of Diavolo on CIS. I'm sure you
will get many more happy users.
Your compensation for the folks who paid $94 is fair, IMO. 3 free upgrades
plus the scheduler sounds good. Thanks for listening and thanks for the
consideration.
The fact that you did, in fact, listen to the end users here and take a
volume of (mostly) constructive critisism under consideration is
commendable — that in and of itself helps me to swallow the $30! <g>
Seriously, I really do look forward to more programs from you in the
future. I hope you keep on writing for the Amiga and continue to be a
regular presence here on the forum.
Thanks again.
— Dave
Dave,
thank you very much, I'm really glad that you find my compensation to be
fair.
I will continue writing for the Amiga as long as it's my favourite
computer. And I'm quite sure that it will be for some time…. 🙂
Martin Korndoerfer, Bavaria, Germany
Also flying on AutoPilot
Martin:
You're quite welcome.
Tell me: How do you write programs? Do you use Assembler, C, or Pascal? Is
this your main line of work, or do you have a 'day job'? <g> Just
curious…. I might want to write a few programs someday.
— Dave
Dave,
Currently I'm making my "Diplom" on the "Universitaet". I think you'd call
that "I'm becoming a graduate at the college" or something like that… 🙂
Diavolo is written in C, I'm also programming in Pascal and several other
languages.
The most difficult thing with programming is to find something new or
spectacular to make. MagicMenu was such a thing.
I you've got an idea, just go and write it. Programming is not really a
difficult task, if you're only persistent enough…
Happy programming!
Martin Korndoerfer, Bavaria, Germany
Also flying on AutoPilot
Martin:
YES! Exactly — the most challenging thing for me is to find something new
or different to program that is not currently there. I never took advanced
language courses in college, but I did take introductry courses in
FORTRAN, PASCAL (2 semesters), COBOL, and BASIC. These are all high-level
languages. I don't think C was around when I was in college, although I
remember PL/1 was big as a mid-level language (before assembler).
Back then, I owned a Radio Shack Color Computer (M-6809), and there was no
way that anyone with average means could afford a home computer to program
in PL/1 or C, so I always had to use the terminals on the mainframe at
school, compile each edit, etc. I used the CoCo for Pascal programming,
though! It was time-consuming, and I didn't have much time, as I worked
full-time to help pay for college. If I could have programmed at home…
things might have been different. I guess you could call programming my
"minor".
Now that I have more time off from work (I used to work 55+ hours a week
until recently) I might be able to persue my programming interest,
provided I find a project on which to work, because programming aimlessly
doesn't work.
I wrote a couple of very short ARexx programs a couple years ago that
serve for me as a GUI "front end" for LHA. I use these to compress and
decompress files without ever touching the keyboard (no annoying 'lha x
Downloads:Diavol.lha') <g> I've been getting those ready for an upload
here, because the thought occured to me that someone may be interested in
a utility like that! (It took 2 years!) Of course, they'll be freeware
<g>
Talk later!
— Dave