----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Henkel <chris@...>
To: <futurebasic@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 9:32 PM
Subject: [FB] philosophic-problem: X-Plattform - need to talk...


> Project: Professional Flightlog Program for the MacOS - with some special
> add ons for a particular airline.
>
> Problem 1 - 'Target Audience':
> this airline will give a Sony Vaio 'WorkPad' to every pilot during the
> next couple of months; on its HD there is 6 GBs reserved for company files
> and applications under Windows 2000. There is a second partition of 2 GB,
> running under Windows '98, which is available to the user for own
purposes.
>
> That means, that every pilot, even those with a Mac at home, will be
> forced to use a Win-Machine for their job-duties. So, to be at lease
> 'used', the program should be available x-plattform?

Well, I'm a Windows programmer by day  in Visual Basic (and Visual C,
Delphi, ...), and coming from VB to Future Basic is real culture shock.  VB
is very powerful, but it stricly forbids things like pointers to memory etc.
Future Basic is more akin to C than it is Basic.  It's more similar to
Delphi (Object Pascal).

A possible option would be to compile your application for a 68K Mac, then
run a Mac emulator on the Via.  I use Basilisk II on my Toshiba laptop (I
also have a PowerPC 6360 and a Powerbook 150 laptop), and the later versions
support networking.  This option lets you run your Mac apps on a Mac, yet
you still have Win2K running as well.

Just a thought...

Neil