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In message <4ec0903b47garyn...@locock.co.uk> >> So, to my mind, both Aaron and Paul (VA and OPro) are missing huge > (Paul??) I was publicly pilloried for daring to suggest, two years ago, that I'm sure there are very good reasons for such software not appearing - All just my opinion, of course. Jeremy. --
Gary Locock wrote:
> Jeremy Brayshaw wrote: Oops, sorry - meant to say 'David' there.
>> opportunities with their work by ignoring MacOS, and our loved RISC OS
>> suffers for it.
> VA isn't /ignoring/ Mac OS AFAIK; they bring a demonstrator version of VA on But so much RO software has been promised and never actually
> Mac OS to most shows these days (though like you, I am impatient for the
> finished product).
materialises - Oregano3, Cino, Cineroma, etc. It's understandable, but
very frustrating. I'm wondering if VA for Mac is also in this category
- we've had tantalising tasters of each of these, inc. VA, but the
'track record' suggests we'll never see any of them completed.
Cineroma would never appear. It hasn't. Will the same be true of VA
for MacOS? VA on Mac may be regularly publicly demonstrated, but so
was Oregano3 and that never became available.
I'm not arguing that point - but we can't ignore the fact that it is
/not/ available, no matter how valid the reason.
> There is a downside of course, for RO developers. Mac OS X is really rather Well, if RO is lacking in important areas, and no developer can
> good, especially where RO is weakest, on the internet. Two first-rate free
> browsers, and no virus worries. Don't want to encourage desertion, do we--?
justify correcting that, it would be silly to continue to do without
those facilities when they do exist on other systems. Nose, spite and
face come to mind! If people switch to Mac, then they're lost to RO.
But if VA on Mac appears sooner rather than later, those 'deserters'
may just stick with RO, at least in part. If it appears 'later', I
suspect those same people will have found other ways to achieve what
they want on MacOS and won't go back to RO.
Jeremy Brayshaw <><