[ES40-announcements] Commitment to ES40

[Camiel V. <iam...@gm...>]

Dear groups,

 

Over the past few weeks, I have received a number of questions regarding my
commitment to and involvement with ES40 emulator development. This e-mail
message is meant as a clarification of this, as well as of recent
developments.

 

As most of you will have noticed, I have spent little time on development on
ES40 for almost a year. One of the reasons for this has been that the job
that I've had for  years with the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture became
uncertain because of plans to move our office building, and my reluctance to
relocate. At the same time, I was approached by Mr. Bruce Claremont of
Migration Specialties, with the idea of starting development on a commercial
multi-platform emulator.  I have spent the better part of the last half of
2008 training people to take over my job, as well as that of two colleagues
who left earlier in 2008. At the same time, I was making preparations to set
up my own company, which I finally did in January 2009. Since then, I've
been busy on the commercial emulators, as well as with the necessities
involved with running a business. These developments have left me precious
little time to devote to my family and hobbies, like the ES40 emulator. I
apologize for being slow to respond to your e-mails.

 

I don't expect to be able to devote a whole lot of time to the ES40 emulator
this year. I would like to see the project succeed, however, so any
improvements any of you can make are more than welcome. If someone would
like to help out with checking patches into CVS and producing releases,
please contact me directly.  In the long run, I expect to see parts of the
code developed for the commercial emulators find its way into the ES40
emulator. The reason that this will not happen anytime soon, is that the
commercial emulator uses an entirely different basic framework, and code
written for the commercial emulator isn't immediately compatible with ES40's
framework.

 

I hope this clarifies the recent slowness or lack of progress somewhat.
Thank you for bearing with me.

 

Kind regards,

 

Camiel Vanderhoeven

 

Camicom Software Services & Consulting

Tarthorst 1009

6708 JH Wageningen, The Netherlands

 

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