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Rich is in the news!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:54 am
by twellys
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:02 pm
by Pr0f
Good article!
It's interesting to see that industry still has a requirement to keep some retro gear in a running state. It's amazing how many people take backups on older media and then don't keep the hardware around to actually read them again
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:53 pm
by Sparrowhawk
Great interview and very interesting insight into RWAP (like the interviewer, I also thought it was pronounced R-wrap
).
Interesting to hear Rich say the ZX81 is his big earner. I bought my own 81 from Rich himself at a multi format fair up in, I think, Preston many years ago
Also manned the CGH stall while Rich Alexander went to get some lunch.
Happy days.
Thank goodness for people like Rich who help keep our favourite machines going all these years later.
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:58 pm
by AndyZX
That's a great interview! In particular I admired Rich's jump from ZX81 straight to QL (ZX83)
But mainly I just wanted to tune in to praise his professionalism - whenever I needed something he would always be there - software, hardware, or a piece of friendly advice. He is indeed a person with a big heart who keeps our QL/retro community going. Thanks Rich!!
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:58 am
by RWAP
Aww many thanks for the feedback and kind words
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:19 am
by bwinkel67
Yup, me too...ZX81 to the QL, skipping the Spectrum. Of course I'm in the US so there was no Spectrum
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:34 am
by Derek_Stewart
HI,
Nice video...
I am not sure about the statements about "No open source QL implementation of Superbasic"
Since SMSQ/E and Minerva source code is freely available, which covers SuperBASIC and SBASIC, but they need an emulator to run in.
The QL emulators are also open source:
SMSQmulator - Java open source
sQLux - open source
QPC2 - freely available, but closed source
QLAY - freely available, but closed source
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:37 pm
by RWAP
Derek_Stewart wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:34 am
HI,
Nice video...
I am not sure about the statements about "No open source QL implementation of Superbasic"
Since SMSQ/E and Minerva source code is freely available, which covers SuperBASIC and SBASIC, but they need an emulator to run in.
The QL emulators are also open source:
SMSQmulator - Java open source
sQLux - open source
QPC2 - freely available, but closed source
QLAY - freely available, but closed source
I took it as meaning a version of SuperBASIC which runs natively on a PC rather than within another program....
Re: Rich is in the news!
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:25 pm
by vanpeebles
Was a good read that!