04-21-2022, 04:24 PM
There's a great saying, "Hell isn't a place, it's people." So what I'm seeing here is a lot of unnecessary drama over a $400 a year lemonade stand. From what I gather, Fell became the linchpin, who, as Steve stated, was the hero who walked off into the sunset, but who left the project without a developer when Luke followed the sun in his footsteps. So the project went to someone who apparently doesn't have the skill or temperament to keep it going as it was, and elected not to involve the community to take it off his hands.
Visions of grandeur often meet this fate. In fact, this reminds me of a guy who bought the domain QBasic dot com, but who wouldn't sell it, because he thought is was worth tens of thousands of dollars! That didn't turn out well. I'd bet today he'd be happy with 10 bucks and a six pack of Bud Light. Anyway, maybe this is a similar situation with a behind the scenes type, who needs to find developers, forum managers, etc. to feel comfortable resuming the project, and who thinks it will become something more than a language for hobbyists. Who knows.
So now we find ourselves here. I love the freer feel it has, don't you? I'm sure soon the INDEX page will get designed and up, so qb64phonex.com can be indexed by search engines. Right now, we are in a Google sandbox, while a few bots have a look at us to see what we are building here. So the more QB64 related content the bots see, the sooner we will be noticed and ranked. Why is that important? Well, if you feel you're glad you found this language, and a forum community that supports it, I can assure you there are new coders searching for the same experience, and I really want them to find there way here, to QB64 so this great little hobby language of ours has a nice long future. As my old friend Mac used to say, "QBasic Forever." He passed away in 2008, but in QB64, his dream is living on.
So in conclusion, we have a language that is still supported after 31 years. The QBasic Forum has been around for most of that time, but we are now on our 4th QB64 forum with a lot of info lost on the last two. Maybe we can think ahead a bit, this time around, and change that Karma. Fingers crossed.
Pete
Visions of grandeur often meet this fate. In fact, this reminds me of a guy who bought the domain QBasic dot com, but who wouldn't sell it, because he thought is was worth tens of thousands of dollars! That didn't turn out well. I'd bet today he'd be happy with 10 bucks and a six pack of Bud Light. Anyway, maybe this is a similar situation with a behind the scenes type, who needs to find developers, forum managers, etc. to feel comfortable resuming the project, and who thinks it will become something more than a language for hobbyists. Who knows.
So now we find ourselves here. I love the freer feel it has, don't you? I'm sure soon the INDEX page will get designed and up, so qb64phonex.com can be indexed by search engines. Right now, we are in a Google sandbox, while a few bots have a look at us to see what we are building here. So the more QB64 related content the bots see, the sooner we will be noticed and ranked. Why is that important? Well, if you feel you're glad you found this language, and a forum community that supports it, I can assure you there are new coders searching for the same experience, and I really want them to find there way here, to QB64 so this great little hobby language of ours has a nice long future. As my old friend Mac used to say, "QBasic Forever." He passed away in 2008, but in QB64, his dream is living on.
So in conclusion, we have a language that is still supported after 31 years. The QBasic Forum has been around for most of that time, but we are now on our 4th QB64 forum with a lot of info lost on the last two. Maybe we can think ahead a bit, this time around, and change that Karma. Fingers crossed.
Pete