You want a wish list? I'd love to see a REAL music program that
would access a PCMCIA audio card for composing. A genuine PMA
(Personal Music Assistant). I've been blown away with the number
of people who wanted MusicPad. A few musicians out there?!
Again, it's 'cooler' now. In part because it's lasted as long as
it has having been drop-kicked. Partially because there are things
happening now with it (ATA, SER-001, replaceable backlights, etc)
that are happening 3 years after it was dropped. Amazing. My Casio
E-105 wasn't like that. Dead the second the 115 came out. We can
certainly keep it going with new innovations... I hope we do. As
for the list... what about finding a centralized place (UNNA?
Newted?) where current projects, and wish-projects are listed with
links to who is working on them?
PMA anyone? How about a MOD creator?
John
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:32:33 -0500, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
>
> >
> > > Well, I'm out. Newtontracker sounded like a good idea on paper,
> > > and I thought that the Newton would be as cool as it was 3 years
> > > ago, but the Newton truly is dead. The efforts of Paul's ATA
> > > driver, while excelent work, are not going to bring the Newton
> > > back. If the Newton is to survive, it MUST have a period of new
> > > software development.
> >
> > Sorry to see you go. Personally, I feel the Newton is cooler
> > now than it was 3 years ago, but with it no longer supported
> > by it's own manufacturer and many of it's software developers...
> > realistically, the platform will never be 'alive'. There's
> > really nothing we can do to 'bring it back'.
> >
> ..AND MANY OF ITS 'DEVELOPERS', INDEED! xcuse the shouting but really!
> I wonder if there was some 'wish-list' out there with potential
> projects for
> the developer-to-be, just to stretch the accepted notions of the machines
> supposed limitations and show how much we can do without the bells and
> whistles of many of the later portables/handhelds: maybe we potential
> programmers should get together rather than let fellow users abandon the
> platform for "lack' of good stuff!
> Trouble is memory, unless you have the privilege of a good
> card-supplier so
> everything I have is in system memory which was ample for loads of works
> documents, or at least until I found and installed NIE 2.0, and now, even
> though I have only a few docs in the machine alongside NIE and
> Eudora (which
> I haven't managed to get to work yet (keeps returning a -48809
> error message
> whether attached to a phoneline or not!), leaves me with only 468kbytes: I
> had heard somewhere of a low-mem version of a Newt TCP-equivalent but all
> searches seem to lead to dead links.
> The Carp suggests a Psion Revo as some kind of alternative but (I've seen
> it: looks cool-ish but not as cool as an eMate and loses out by comparison
> in the keyboard department) but Psion in general seems to have
> been another
> casualty of the "mainstream" market where, if it isn't Micro$oft
> or Intel it
> doesn't exist, and WinDoze compatibility is treated as a key definition of
> whether a device counts as a computer. If the Psion folk are able
> to follow
> on their promises, well, good for them but Apple seems as
> pathetic as usual,
> strimming down their support to whatever is still hot off the production
> line though the Bayliss(Clockwork Radio)/Apple(South Africa) connection
> looked promising but the Newton has become ours by default and it
> needs only
> our imagination to take it further.
> There's still no xcuse to let Apple off the hook for its behaviour to the
> technology and the environment.
> John J.
> > However, even though we should never 'worship' the technology
> > (c'mon folks, it's a tool, not a god), it in my opinion is still
> > the best thing out there for my needs. I don't see anything coming
> > out any time soon that is going to do what I can do with it.
> >
> > Paul's ATA driver will cerainly help in a big way though (go Paul!!).
> >
> > Best wishes Carpman.
> >
> > John
> >
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