Yeah it's always the same , a few bad apples spoiling the lot. But it is never quite that simple.mikro wrote: 03 Apr 2024 18:24 I just wanted to point out that even if it may look like that there's majority of people against you, it is exactly the opposite -- a few vocal ones post stupid things but the silent majority loves your stuff and there's no reason to put them in in the "those people from forum XY" bag. :)
The same thing with people's driving on the roads. I mean the vast majority people are "generally okay". But even a 1% minority of bad drivers basically means I'm having to avoid them regularly every day. Certainly gets rather irritating year after year. It is rather difficult when you are bombarded with basically idiots in every aspect of life. Like 1% bad drivers, 1% pedestrians who don't look before crossing the road..I guess 90% of garages who can't do anything right on my van.. It all adds up to being like 50% of the people I have to deal with each day are idiots. I mean the amount of rants I have had in my blog over the years due to constantly ongoing issues with basically every company under the sun.
But anyway, The list is endless and adds up to a phenomenal amount of idiots I basically have to deal with daily basis. But yes you're right I should not classify everyone in the same boat. I know several people here also go on other forums, I of course don't have any problems with those people.
Yes it is difficult to know what to spend time on. I certainly don't blame people for prioritising. I have to do that all the time. Though it bears the problem if everyone is 100% busy, nothing gets done at the end of the day. Nobody is exactly to blame for this is just how things are. It is going back to my brick wall analogy again, because it is just where things are at now. There is just less and less help as years go on and I am just able to physically do less and less because of my RSI. Plus after 30 years I think I really done enough by now anyway. Keeping the server and the forum running takes up a huge amount of time alone.As for the help with testing and progress, yeah, I admit, in this case I was the lazy Atari user waiting for cool stuff to happen. Sometimes one just has to make hard choices what to spend free time on. :(
Yeah I can imagine that is incredibly frustrating. I often think I could give someone a bar of gold and they would probably find something to complain about it or just not be interested in it. It then becomes problematical to educate people what of bar of gold actually is in the first place.Me and a friend of mine put a ton of time and effort into it, it looked cool, it had cool features, we basically loved it. And the rest of the Atari world simply ignored it.
Good stuff. I guess having the extra processing power of the CT60 helps with software like that. So maybe when the hardware was more mature it just simply attracted more users because people could run more programs more easily. I'm not a software guy myself, I just half remember a mp3 struggling to play on my Falcon 30 years ago and while was cool, I just couldn't do anything else at the same time making it somewhat pointless back then.And suddenly, I was getting a "ton" of emails from happy Atari users, FireBee users, CT60 users, everybody was so happy to have a player like that! And I was like wtf guys, where had you been for those 8 years? Sometimes it takes time to get noticed and sometimes it is the smallest and dumbest thing which makes it happen.
Yeah I spoke to jookie about such things years ago. I think he did not expect the project to take off like it did. So he basically gave the design away and then it got commercialised. If I remember rightly, jookie kinda regretted the way things went because he honestly thought that nobody would be really interested in it.I could tell you similar story about Jookie's project (SatanDisk, UltraSatan) -- first it looked like a huge commercial failure barely covering the costs, then Jookie sold the UltraSatan license to Lotharek and now there's thousands (!!!) of units all around the world and everybody knows it was Jookie whom they can thank for it. Ironically same for the SatanDisk -- after UltraSatan and CosmosEx release I would have never imagined that there's a place on market for those devices and then people came with the super-cheap clones and voila, again, Jookie was the guy doing it before it was cool. :)
It's possible in years to come people make take more notice of the project when they realise what it's all about and original machines are just failing to much to be worth repairing. I think it is generally well-known it always takes a while for people to catch up.So who knows, maybe in a few years, you will be the cool guy with the first recreated ST board or your project will serve as base for another cool project... so do what you like, don't do what you don't like and the rest is history as they say. :)
But that in itself creates a problem because if loads of people suddenly want a H5 in five years time, I cannot remember much about that project likely by then. IT then creates more work than doing the project sooner rather than later. It's a bit of a ongoing problem when I'm selling multiple kits spanning three decades now. Some things won't sell for literally years, then there will be a small boom of them. People will ask their help and I end up scratching my head because I have not been active in that project for probably a decade, so difficult to remember and support things indefinitely.
It is certainly possible once the add-ons make it to market with the H5 there may get more interested. But the problem is it is always the more stuff which is added the higher the price goes up and the longer things ultimately take. Certainly very problematical territory to navigate.
