Date   : Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:23:55 GMT
From   : lamcw <lamcw@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Images

Mark wrote:

;> Another point is that Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) are still selling
;> 2 commercial products for the Mac. One is a so-called BBC Emulator
;> and another is a souped up BBC BASIC programming package. These sell
;> for about 35 and 150 quid respectively.

;Does anybody buy them though?  Again, although releasing the images PD may
;cause this company a slight loss of revenue, if they depend only on this
;for income they're flogging a dead duck anyway.

Maybe schools/colleges. You can buy Think C or Think Pascal for cheaper!
Or CodeWarrior (68k) for 69 quid! These are THE programming environments 
for the Mac. So yes, I agree with you, definitely a dead duck.


;If Acorn continue to hold on to the roms, maybe we should start a project
;to write a new Basic and OS.  

I'll pass on this one!


;Currently my emulator breaks out of the romat various points anyway to 
;execute native routines.

It's very straight forward to extend BBC Basic so it can access Unix/Mac/PC
calls. Once BASIC is up and running, you do have a programming system in which
you can do some useful stuff.


Chris.