Again, I feel really bad. My intent was not to steal anything from Roman
and I credit his idea on the Web page. I just wanted something similar
that would run on my hardware -- it seems like quite a few people can't
get the other program to run (including me). I even did a Web search for
something similar before writing my own (and yes, there is a Java applet
and several other programs on the Web that does the same thing, but
didn't have a lot of the features I wanted; one of them is $6
shareware).

http://www.jave.de/ - Free, big, and does most everything. Really more
than Roman or I have even thought about attempting.

http://www.sigsoftware.com/emaileffects/index.html

http://www.goldbay.com/joeh/AsciiDraw.html - I thought about starting
with this guy's source code, but I wanted a break from Java.

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-4003619-100-874098.html?tag=st.dl.1
0001-103-1.lst-7-2.874098



I'm not selling ASCIICad so I'm not profiting off Roman's idea, which he
was (mostly) giving away anyway.

His library ideas are far in advance of anything I will do with
ASCIICAD, and I hope he will continue to develop his program. Roman's
right that my program does not capture what a lot of people on the list
asked for. I wrote it for myself and so it fits my needs and runs on my
hardware. Since Roman was good enough to share his creation freely, I
thought it would be good to do the same. In retrospect, I'd probably
just keep it to myself :-)

Again Roman, my apologies and I regret you feel like something has been
taken from you or that my attitude was (quoting from your message): "ha
ha I can do that too" -- nothing could be further from the truth.

I have certainly had similar experiences. Those of you who are hams
might remember my PSKGNR software (also free). It work with G3PLX's PSK
software and at one time I estimate that 70-80% of the hams using PSK31
used my software. Now there is other software that works by itself and
only a small group of people still use PSKGNR. If I had not been giving
it away, I might have found time to develop an "all in one" version of
PSKGNR. But I was giving it away, so I was glad to see even more free
software that my program had influenced. I even gave some of the other
authors advice.

So again, accept my apologies Roman. If you like, I won't announce any
new changes I make on the list.

Al Williams
AWC
* Easy RS-232 Prototyping
http://www.al-williams.com/awce/rs1.htm






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> I beg to differ. Here's the events as I see them.
> Making a small powerful ascii program for piclist

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