7 minutes ago, StephenHorn said:
Because then people would get excited and assume the decision had already been made to release the thing as a product.
Judging off 8BITGUY's posts in totality, I sort of feel like the decision was made before the poll went up. He wants to push out the X8 and is looking for community endorsement of that direction. With his avowed commitment to X16 I guess I'm OK with it. Its better than just pulling the damn plug on everything and pulling the website and repos off the nets. I get the sense his fatigue with the whole thing is all too real at this point.
EDITED TO ADD: I agree, of course, that having the X8 emulator and details of the specs (including the nuts and bolts about how VERA-JR or whatever we are to call the X8 version works in terms of memory accesses etc) would be a real plus at this point. I want to grab that info, load the "balls.prg" demo from the official REPO and see what it takes to get that working.