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- From: steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Rumsby)
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- Subject: Re: Psion 3 - anybody writing anything?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.173224.12379@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:32:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.125833.13053@sbil.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug12.125833.13053@sbil.co.uk>, rob@sbil.co.uk (Robert J Greenwood) writes:
- >
- > 1. Has anybody written a new "Agenda" yet? I don't know about anyone else,
- > but my life doesn't consist of fixed length appointments (in fact bugger
- >
- My main gripe about the agenda is the fixed size repeat list. Only
- being able to repeat 50 items is crazy. I've got more than 50 birthdays
- I want to enter, never mind various regular meetings and stuff.
-
- >
- > 3. Anybody written a bitmap editor? I wanna put some applications on the
- > system screen, but don't have any bitmaps (I use poxy simple ones now).
- >
- I made a start on one of these months ago, but never got very far.
- I'm going to need some pretty icons soon, so maybe I'll ressurect
- it. There just aren't enough hours in the day...
-
- > If anybody has some time/patience get writing... Whilst you're at it I'll
- > have a UNIX version of the PC link s/w,
- >
- I phoned Psion a few weeks back trying to get details on the protocol
- used by slink so I could do just that. They wouldn't tell me ("That
- protocol has never been documented, sir". Yeah, sure.) But they did
- say they would be shortly be releasing a library that implements the
- protocol *in source code form*. This supposedly gives you everything
- you need to write an slink server. The guy was kind of surprised when
- I told him I didn't want to run this on a PC, but assured me that
- it would work on my Sun. Hmmm. This is going to cost 50 or 60 quid
- when it shows up. Maybe I'll just spy on an slink connection and see
- if I can reverse engineer the protocol myself (and offer to sell
- Psion a documented copy of it:-)
-
- > a psion tetris,
- >
- I'd love one of these too. I've almost got a connect 4 program done.
- I just need to find the time to stop it commiting suicide every once
- in a while. Any other games about? I need something to keep me occupied
- during staff meetings...
-
- > a plug-in card with a London A-Z on it,
- >
- And navigation software, or course. Find the quickest route to
- X from Y - that sort of thing.
-
- > And some way of integrating the database with the spreadsheet.
- >
- How much free memory do you need to run the spreadsheet? All the
- ads say it won't run on a 128K machine, but that surely doesn't
- mean it uses more than 128K? How much does it take up with an
- empty spreadsheet?
-
- > Don't want much do I?
- >
- What I want most is for the RAM and ROM cards to be cheaper. I've
- got lots of stuff I'd like to keep on the machine, but having 1MB
- RAM cards costing as much as the machine is a bit excessive. I'd really
- like a 1MB RAM card and a 2MB Flash ROM card, but that's 500 quid:-(
-
- Steve.
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