RE: Click And Pay! (aka Note To Rob)
CH wrote:
Great idea I was thinking about buying Euphoria, but I'am not going to
now, just because it is slow and not worth $40.00. I say do something
like you said or mayabe once you buy it you get free upgrades. If they
start doing what you say, well heck I would buy all versions too. Could
you tell me wherei could get MSVC. Which one is the fastest MSVC or
DJGPP, and which one is easier for a newbie.
Thanks for all your comments, just wondering what do you do, are you a
programmer? For who?
Mike The Spike wrote:
> As I said in a previous post;
> most young people start programming because they wanna
> create their own computer game.
> They play Duke and Quake, and Zelda and Half-Life, and
> they read about John Carmack and John Romero
> (boooh!!),
> and have tons of ideas for a kick-ass game.
>
> But they will be scared away from Euphoria.
> As they first think: "Woah! This is easy! I can do
> that!", but later find out it's too slow and doesn't,
> for example, allow their games to run on their 200$ 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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