Re: Loadable keyboards

[Anthony Jacques <jacquesa@zetnet.co.uk>]

> I don't recall if there were any strange licensing restrictions on oAESis,
> but at least the work on XaAES can be continued by anyone.

I dont think there were, but I haven't checked.

> AFACR (and I might be wrong), oAESis was more or less a one man project,
> while XaAES was a bit more of a team effort. Like another internet team
> project I could mention (;-), though, the largest part by far of XaAES ended
> up being written by one person, with perhaps three or four others helping
> out a bit. When the main person didn't have so much time left for the
> project, it more or less stopped dead in its tracks.

Yea, the two internet projects really are quite similar when you put it 
like that. :)

> Anyway, the XaAES mailing list is still up and running and currently
> has about 60 subscribers. Anyone is welcome to join it and kick some life

and I bet that quite a few of those 60 are on this list as well. I know
that I am. :)

> into that project. Just send an email to xaaes-request@rand.thn.htu.se
> with the word 'subscribe' on the subject line.
>
> Actually, now that fVDI v0.85 is out the door, I intend to pick up where

Excelent news. I'm off to download it when I upload this.

> I left off on XaAES myself. The windowed dialog and rectangle list code was
> still buggy, IIRC.

And thats good news as well. :)

> > I never could get the later versions of XaAES to work on my Falcon, so I
>
> It seems many people had problems with that, but it always worked fine
> for me (it doesn't now, though, for some reason).

It still works on my machine, so if you want to compare installations...
I do remember that the docs were not very accurate with regard to where
the xaaes.inf file needed to be kept. And the bar.app program was a bit
odd as well... although there are now better alternatives anyway. :)

Anthony
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