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Joined: 16/09/2019
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| Posted: 01:06pm 01 May 2025 |
My opinion ...
... don't waste your time.
It's all "make believe" and 80's "boys" with too much disposable income most of whom I expect are buying the PicoCalc as a bit of retail therapy and retro-computer nostalgia and will lose interest and move onto the "next shiny" pretty quickly. I suppose in a way I'm one of these (though I don't intend on buying a PicoCalc; I have enough paperweights already), but messing with MMBasic seems to be good for my mental health if not my sleeping time.
ClockworkPi have made a business for themselves catering to this market and providing commercial looking products, glossy website and good marketing - all 3 things that we seem to be bad at here in the shed, and which your superior hardware design abilities are not going to "fix". And I don't condemn ClockworkPi for this, "good for them" is what I say, I just wish they'd be more careful with their software licensing and provide better software support in general.
IMO if people want MMBasic in their pocket then MMBasic for Android is the answer. MMB4L takes me part of the way there, maybe one day I'll make the next two leaps, or maybe you will beat me to it ... I certainly don't plan on racing you.
> Everything open source and no profit
I'm not sure, but I think the ClockworkPi design is "supposed" to be open-source ... it's just much easier and not excessively expensive for those who are interested to buy from them.
YMMV,
Tom
Edited 2025-05-01 23:07 by thwill