Re: [NTLK] might give up on newton

I would love to learn how to program for the newton,
but i have NO programing skills at all. that will be
the hard part is to learn how to program for the
newton with not knowing how to program.

it would be nice to teack people how to do it to bring
in new blood (so to speak) to help keep software
working and to gain new software. i know that the
newton is capable of doing even more then it is doing
now.

i would be all for donating also, but as i said before
i have no job and i dont know when i will have one
cause no one wants to hire anyone around here. right
now i am in between a rock and a hard place

i finally slapped my P1 around a bit and got it
working again. I finally got to do a brain wipe on my
MP 2100 and installed all of the required software
(wifi driver, ATA driver, NIE 2.0, and so on). then
made a backup using my Mac over wifi (and backed that
file up). then i installed other things like
madnewton, newtscape, chatbuddy and other software of
the same and made another backup.

so now i have 2 restore points to where i wont be
stuck again if my P1 fails another time.

i got everything back up and running on my newton but
i cant connect on the library's wifi cause it forces a
redirect to there main page.

--- matthiasm <mm@matthiasm.com> wrote:

>
> On 15.05.2008, at 04:32, Brian Parker wrote:
> >
> > But thats a problem, who are the developers that
> will expand on that
> > code? I released full source for my NewtChat AIM
> client in hopes that
> > someone would be able to pick it up and get it
> working again, but
> > nobody was interested. Maybe its just not
> something that enough
> > people want. It might help to have development
> tools that run on
> > current machines but those are unlikely given the
> very small number
> > (zero?) of programmers around now. Giving out
> passwords or an
> > unlocked version of old software is good but the
> source code is mostly
> > useless.
>
>
> I have to disagree very much. I have been involved
> in several larger
> OpenSource projects (including Einstein as you may
> know). All of them
> see developers comming and going. Some of them never
> get picked up,
> some of them get a lot of steam all of a sudden.
>
> OpenSource software is very much like real life. If
> you try to
> organize a trip to Rome, you either make sure that
> you already have
> folks interested in Rome, or you must advertise to
> get your crowd
> together. I did not know that your software was
> available as source
> code. I actually see very little source code
> available for the Newton
> which is a real pitty.
>
> Anyway, I am pretty confident that we will be able
> to set up a working
> toolchain on OS X and MSWindows for the Newton
> pretty soon by tying
> all threads together. I wonder if we can then set up
> a programming
> course ofver a few days.
>
> Matthias
>
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