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Peter wrote:
I for one would really love to see you port Illumination over to Linux instead. While I realize it's designed around DOS and legacy PC architecture I think a forward port is by far the cleanest solution, and where effort is best spent.
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I will take any step which may turn out to be necessary in order to get as many textbooks --- and of course other books of all kinds --- written in Illumination, in front of the eyes of those developing-world children who need and will be using the XO (and other machines) as possible. That's my own personal commitment, and it is total. 110%.
What that step should be --- with regard to Ilumination and the XO --- I hope to discover by, among other things, talking with you guys.
I have to tell you, though,
--- that it took me (working alone I admit) two years to write Illumination in DOS using Borland C:
--- that I shall be 75 in August this year:
--- and hence that the word "deadline" carries a somewhat odd and literal meaning for me ! I am, thankfully, in good health overall and walk several miles a day, but my own personal hardware systems are, shall we say, beginning to show a few bugs here and there?
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( I can in any case do little about Illumination and the Third World without the support of at least one hefty institutional player on the scene. And I have to tell you that, thus far, very little signs of such help have appeared, despite my having sought it.)
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Please take a look at my site, www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk and the downloadable presentation thereon, and perhaps offer me any advice you may think of?
NB I am spending the weekend with my girlfriend and hence away from my PC. (She is sensible enough never to have looked at a PC of any kind.) I shall be back at my desk Monday lunchtime, though, and will pick up any email or comments you may have straight away.
Cheers,
Martin Woodhouse