The biggest news this issue is I’VE GOT A HOME PAGE. I got a wild hair a while back and decided to get myself a home page. Since I could not use a server at work to host my home page (the government sort of frowns on that), I had to find a commercial service to do it. I had full Internet access from work, so I just needed a server to host the home page.
Luckily, just days after getting this wild hair I saw two advertisements for just such a service. I found one place in Philadelphia, PA that would host my home page (with a 1 Meg limit) and provide mail forwarding, all for $24 a year. My new e-mail address and home page is:
swensont@mail.serve.com
http://www.serve.com/swensont/
My old e-mail addresses still work, but having the mail forwarding, I can move my main e-mail account but still have a single permanent e-mail address.
The home page is aimed at both friends and family, so it does not say “QL Hacker’s Journal” at the entry page, but you will find the QHJ on the home page. I’ve also put other Sinclair related information on the page, such as:
Sinclair Internet Resources List
Master Sinclair E-Mail list
Z88 Source Book
For those with Web access, give it a try.
Having had the Pointer Environment (PE) for over a year, I have been wondering what tools were available for doing development in the PE. I have found and bought two tools for doing PE programming; QMENU and EASYPTR. In this issue I will discuss PE programming with QMENU. Since EASYPTR is a far more complex toolkit than QMENU, it may take me a while to really get the grasp of it, but I hope to have some article on it in a future issue.
Big thanks to Jerome Grimbert for writing an article on how he wrote the QL Pente program. It does a good job of documenting how a Pointer Environment program is done. Jerome is fairly quick. He wrote the Pente program in only 2 days and wrote the article in only a few days after I asked if he would write such an article.