Click And Pay! (aka Note To Rob)
As I said in a previous post;
most young people start programming because they wanna
create their own computer game.
They play Duke and Quake, and Zelda and Half-Life, and
they read about John Carmack and John Romero
(boooh!!),
and have tons of ideas for a kick-ass game.
But they will be scared away from Euphoria.
As they first think: "Woah! This is easy! I can do
that!", but later find out it's too slow and doesn't,
for example, allow their games to run on their 200$ 3D
hardware accelerators.
I know this is true what I'm sayinng and not bullshit,
because of a friend of mine, Ultima (aka Kevin Lang),
who I found out knew Euphoria.
He coded in it for a while back in the 1.5 days.
He produced a game wich is one of my favorites (I'm a
retro fan) called Teen Life, wich he coded in Turbo
Pascal.
Today, he's coding a 3D engine called STEngine in C++
using MSVC++.
When he asked me for advice, I said: "Why not use
Euphoria to code your engine?". He was like: "Yeah
right! Euphoria! 'Lag-city'!".
For example his engine allows you to update components
by writing a DLL.
How is he gonna do that in Euphoria?
But the main reason I think we see all those young
people flying off to MSVC and DJGPP land, is because
they are free.
A young person ain't gonna pay for something he finds
on a web page.
And the PD editions of Euphoria are worthless except
for learning the language.
They rather go downlaod DJGPP with Allegro or a pirate
version of MSVC wich can be found anywhere (bought
mine for 3 bucks from a guy that copied it from the
latest Twilight CD).
What should RDS do to allow more people to pay for
Euphoria, without having to hand over cash or a
creditcard number?
This what I had in mind.
Something revolutionary.
I call it; 'Click And Pay'.
RDS should get like 20 sponsors to put some banner ads
on a dedicated RDS page.
Then, they should let people click on those adds,
visit each site and write down the first letter they
find in every site.
Then submit the combined letters through a simple form
and voila! They payed for their copy and it is mailed
to them automatically!
Offcourse the banners change every once in a while so
people can't spread the combined letters to submit.
Hell!
If this was the way to pay for Euphoria I'd start
buying every registered version since 1993, just for
my collection or some shit (btw, I have Euphoria 1.3
on my HD, mail me if you want it).
I realy think every slack-jawed gogle that'd pass by
the RDS page would 'pay' for his copy, just for the
hell of it, even if they don't even know what
'programming' means.
RDS can make ten times more cash if they let users pay
like this for their copies.
I personally think RC should do this for the next
release.
Just to give it a try.
If it don't work out, he can take it out again.
Mike The SPike
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